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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to end the use of taser guns in our police forces. More details
Submitted by J Gullick – Deadline to sign up by: 02 January 2010 – Signatures: 194
Whilst non-lethal force is obviously preferable to lethal force, the increasing use of taser guns will serve not to make our streets safer, but simply create increasingly violent policing and ipso facto increasingly violent criminals. The MET has already rejected taser guns, realising they are at best a PR nightmare; at worst Amnesty International has catalogued how they are a cruel and unusual punishment, and sometimes deadly.
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