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Stun Guns. Is It a Risk to the Lawbreaker’s Health?
A friend invited me to come with her on a lecture, I was a bit hesitant, and to be perfectly honest I went with her because she was going to be on her own. I also saw a glimpse of it in the news. There was controversy whether it should be used, as there may be health risk factors involved.
I was curious about the lecture and this was going too be given by an expert from United States to talk about Stun Guns, not one of my favourite subject.
At the lecture I had to learn to branch out my views and was surprise to learn about stun guns, I took notes, because I was sure I am going to write this op to ciao members!
I was surprised to learn that stun guns are being used by soldiers, police officers and even private citizens have them! (True! True! Honestly! I was not aware) the private citizens especially in America use this type of weapons to protect themselves from personal attacks. It is design to shock your bodily system.
The idea of using the stun guns is, if attack took place, was to temporarily disable your opponent temporally without killing him. The illustration the lecturer used, which I thought was quite good was that if you come in touch with an electrical outlet, the current may injure or even kill you, but if it is in smaller doses this is harmless. In fact our human body contains electricity.
He had a picture of a child making beans on toast, and the point was that your brain sends electricity down your nerve cell towards the muscle in your arm. This electrical impulses or signal tells the nerve cells to release a component call neurotransmitter (it is a communication chemical) to the muscle cells. Now what happens is that your muscles expand in the right manner to put your beans on toast together. When you pick this up the nerve cells in your hand send electrical message to the brain, hence when you put this in your mouth, it sends electrical signals to your brain to tell you about the beans on toast and it deliciousness! Electricity is one of the most important elements in your body. It communicates with different parts of the body.
What stun gun does is that it disrupts communication in your system. When you press the stun gun and hold the trigger against your opponent’s body, the charges pass through the heavy clothing and skin. Usually around three milliamps is not extreme enough to damage the opponent’s body unless it is applied for a long time.
What it does it confuses the opponent’s nervous system, making it difficult to decode any messages, the opponent has a difficult time telling his muscles to move, thus making him confused, unbalance and temporarily paralyzed. It leaves him to move slowly.
There are many types of stun guns, (I found it difficult to grasp that part of the lecture) and there are new ones being made.
One of stun gun that has been around and still being used in prison is in the form of stun belts, and what this does; it is attached to the offender. The prison officer carries a remote control device that operates the stun gun. Should the prisoner gets out of control, the officer can activate his belt that charges very high voltage to the prisoner’s kidneys. Whilst he is temporarily disabled, the officers can safely take him back to the cell.
Overall I was glad I attended the lecture. I left feeling sad, the price one pays for disregarding the ‘law of the land’ and like every thing, it can be abused, whilst it can be accepted that it may control the ‘law breaker’ it is even sadder that there are reports around the globe that stun guns are used for deliberate and cruel torture, of human lives.
Good op! I can see they may have there uses but like you say, they always seem to fall in to the wrong hands. I can just see some cruel b*****d using this on their kids or something, let's hope not.
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04.06.2002 20:31
Good op! I can see they may have there uses but like you say, they always seem to fall in to the wrong hands. I can just see some cruel b*****d using this on their kids or something, let's hope not.
02.11.2001 12:03
exllent op it was really long too!
24.10.2001 19:27
Very good op. Didn't even know that such a topis existed on Ciao... Cheers, Justin