Comment on New York police used stun gun on migrant holding toddler, video shows

• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lethal is lethal. Less than lethal*

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  • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.

    Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are not varying degrees of death.

      They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).

      You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right.

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My best friend has a pacemaker. A tazer would kill him before he hit the floor.

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