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Originally Posted by fuzebox
The article says the chick was high though... Less-lethal weapons only really work against sober people with fully functioning pain receptors.
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The Tazer's main function is not to cause pain (that is more of the likes of a stungun or the beanbag shotgun, or pepper spray) but rather to cause severe muscle impairment. Of course there is a large amount of pain that comes with it, but the pain is a secondary effect when the tazer is used. Most of the PI/commercial-grade tazers have dual functions where they can act like a stungun as well as a tazer (that is, they can be used to cause great pain rather than muscle impairment? used a lot in crowd control situations).