Why did police get tasers if they are gunning down anyone they want?

Sorry but that's just not true. Every use of Taser is recorded and has to be justified. It is a lower use of force than hitting someone with a baton or throwing them to the ground.

Someone I spoke to said the public are being softened up for armed American style policing. What do you think?

Now there is the same abuse from our own police zapping people whenever they want. We are seeing more and more police shootings but our courts prevent the public from having tasers to protect themselves from stabbings unlike other European countries.

What makes you think a wee taser is going to stop someone getting knifed...?

You would soon change your tune if you at risk of being zapped until you pee'd your pants.

'Someone' is really penetrating analysis... And talking out of their arse.

We don't have the gun culture in the UK to warrant all police being armed, and - most importantly - the police themselves don't want to be.

When tasers were being given to the police it was justified for stabbings and other incidents to counter members of the public giving examples of taser abuse from American police.

Now there is the same abuse from our own police zapping people whenever they want. We are seeing more and more police shootings but our courts prevent the public from having tasers to protect themselves from stabbings unlike other European countries.

Someone I spoke to said the public are being softened up for armed American style policing. What do you think?

The police in the U.K. are not gunning down anyone they want.

That's the attitude that let so many african americans get killed by the police.

Also African Americans don’t live here on mass, you absolute clown.

Now there is the same abuse from our own police zapping people whenever they want. We are seeing more and more police shootings.

As @JWatch rightfully said, Taser is the best non-lethal use of force which officers can exert to gain compliance. There is a far, far lower risk of injury when compared with baton strikes or physical restraint.

Every use of Taser is well-documented. The officer must fill out quite lengthy paperwork everytime it is discharged, which can be audited by senior offices or even the IOPC if necessary. Police are not "zapping people whenever they want" as if there are no grounds for it, the officer will either be suspended or face disciplinary action.

Please don't blatantly lie to suit your narrative. There is no feasible evidence to suggest your comments can ever be true.

A police officer has been placed under criminal investigation after a man was shot with a Taser weapon and left paralysed from the waist down, the Guardian has learned.

The man, 23, was shot by an officer using a stun gun as he jumped over a wall and fell as officers tried to detain him in Haringey, north London.

The incident happened on 4 May and is being investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). The man was arrested for drug-related offences and has been in hospital ever since.

When tasers were being given to the police it was justified for stabbings and other incidents to counter members of the public giving examples of taser abuse from American police.

Now there is the same abuse from our own police zapping people whenever they want. We are seeing more and more police shootings but our courts prevent the public from having tasers to protect themselves from stabbings unlike other European countries.

Someone I spoke to said the public are being softened up for armed American style policing. What do you think?

So you're saying that people who follow instructions get zapped anyway?

So you're saying that people who follow instructions get zapped anyway?

What isntructions the police aren't doing exams??

You need to send it to IELTS so they can put it in their exam papers. I fail to understand the question.

“But if you think of response as a spectrum, they sent everything other than teargas and helicopters. They had dogs, they had an ambulance, obviously the firearms unit. [It was a] very, very high-level response to a report that somebody has seen what they thought was a gun inside a private residence on a dark night through partially open blinds.”