Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Taser that!

Tory MP David Davies believes that every house owner should be allowed to keep a taser gun to protect them from burglars. Tim Dowling of the Guardian takes a far more sensible view.

One of the central problems with Mr Davies' view is that he seems to believe that all home owners are nice, good upstanding members of society. Fact is if you gave them all Taser guns then it is undeniable that there would be many many instances where they would be used in dubious circumstances. Abusive husbands would start delighting in zapping their wives - much more fun than a simple punch in the face! noisy neighbours would be zapped by the old dear next door who was kept awake at 2am, troublesome toddlers could be silenced in the press of a button. It's also fairly certain that these weapons would be taken out of the home and used on other people to cause harm & distress. In fact, what's to stop a burglar stealing one of these and using it to aid their future twilight raids?

You can't create a more peaceful and crime free society by increasing it's weapons stash.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've been wanting a taser for aaaaaages! Who knew all I had to do was vote Tory??