Stun Masters Considered to be a Safer Alternative to Guns
However, a study by the Potomac Institute concluded; “Based on the available evidence, and on accepted criteria for defining product risk vs. efficacy, we believe that when stun technology is appropriately applied, it is relatively safe and clearly effective. The only known field data that are available suggest that the odds are, at worst, one in one thousand that a stun device would contribute to (and this does not imply cause) death. This figure is likely not different than the odds of death when stun devices are not used, but when other multiple force measures are. A more defensible figure is one in one hundred thousand.”
An additional study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic in 2007 determined that, “A standard five-second taser gun X26 application does not affect the functional integrity of pacemakers and defibrillators.” A Chicago study suggests that use of the taser stun gun can interfere with heart function. A team of scientists and doctors at the Cook County hospital trauma center stunned 6 pigs with two 40-second taser c2 discharges across the chest. Every animal was left with heart rhythm problems and two of the subjects died of cardiac arrest. One of the subjects died three minutes after being shot indicating, according to researcher Bob Walker, that “after the cheap stun guns shock ends, there can still be effects that can be evoked and you can still see cardiac effects.”
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