Bill’s Mind

July 11th, 2007

The guys at Scifi.com have a little blurb about a Wireless Tazer that may be coming to a cop near you.

It’s certainly not rocket science, just a bullet-sized gadget with electrodes and a battery. While I’m sure there’s a mile of paperwork documenting all the homeland-security-funded R&D, the fact is I’m simply not impressed. The potential benefit of a wireless tazer is greatly outweighed by the absolute certainty of its abuse by law enforcement officials. It’s not like they can be trusted with regular tazers anyway.

Oh I wonder how the police agents of the 20th century were ever able to do their jobs without tazers. They must have been supercops!