Vital Signs: Safety: In Stun Gun Training, Officerâs Spine Is Fractured
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Advocates for the use of stun guns by police departments point to evidence that they are generally safe. But a recent demonstration shows otherwise.
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South Yorkshire Police has commissioned a mini film to raise awareness of the dangers of gun and knife crime.   Gameover is being uploaded onto youth websites including You Tube, Google Video and MySpace as part of the force's 'Guns and Knives Take Lives' drive.
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Concerns are raised as more police officers, including those from two Welsh forces, start to carry Taser stun guns in a 12-month trial.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they approved a new device that could help save the arms and legs of injured soldiers and trauma victims.
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Just over a year ago, Joe Barlow, a paramedic in Illinois, spent a week testing a computer game called Incident Commander, a training simulator that gives players a lead role in managing crisis situations such as terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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Pvt. Jeremiah Jensen, on leave from Iraq, had his car stolen at gunpoint just days before Christmas. Pfc. Robert Ruiz was injured by a booby trap in Iraq a few days after Christmas last year.
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And robots get stun guns Taser, the stun gun company, has announced a shotgun cartridge which fires a wireless electric shock round to knockdown a person up to 65 feet away.â¦
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The Department of Homeland Security has issued its first approval for the use of stun guns to stop hijackers and unruly passengers aboard commercial flights.
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When Taliban forces attacked a police checkpoint in central Afghanistan under dark of night in late 2006, special-operations Master Sgt. Andrew Martin called in air support and then slapped a high-tech cloth-like device on his helmet for protection.
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WEST POINT, Utah - A bus driver called police when he saw a student carrying what turned out to be a replica of a Civil War-era rifle that had been displayed in class all year. The call led to a 47-minute lockdown at West Point Junior High School and two elementary schools.
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(CBS 5 News)--The federal government has given the go-ahead for commercial pilots to carry stun-guns. Scottsdale based Taser International will soon be arming people in the cockpit!
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Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum.
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Prisoner-rights group Amnesty International said Taser&#39;s (TASR:Nasdaq - news - research) stun guns are needlessly deadly and urged police departments to stop using them until more rigorous testing can be done.
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Taser International on Thursday said a  study in a cardiology journal found that products such as the  company's stun guns are not dangerous to cardiac functions.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by a rocket, it took hours for him to regain his composure. Nothing in his training as a Navy medical corpsman had prepared him for the sight of the dead Marine brought in September to the military field hospital outside Fallujah.
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Riot police wearing plastic helmets and Terminator-style body armor slashed the air with batons and parried imaginary blows with plexiglass shields. Others thrust out their arms and legs in martial arts training reminiscent of a Jackie Chan movie. At the pistol range, police in black fatigues blasted holes in human silhouettes at 30 yards.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Stun-gun maker Taser International said Saturday it was concerned that an upcoming report in the Miami Herald would &quot;mischaracterize&quot; the basis for its safety claims.