Epileptics Against Tasers
November 24, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Gabriel... // November 25, 2007 at 9:21 am |
You look great Christine… I’m still getting visitors to that post I put up about your seizure video.
I don’t know if you’re doing it on purpose of not, but I noticed you’re not using the “Category” feature… when you’re done editing a post, if you put “epilepsy” as a category and “tag” it’ll connect you with thousands of WordPress blogs written by people with epilepsy or just about epilepsy…
You can blog-surf them here, when you find one you like just put it in your blogroll and maybe say hi:
http://wordpress.com/tag/epilepsy/
You can also grab design and page ideas from them.
About the post… I’ve heard the argument about tasers and people with epilepsy before, I think it was a couple of years ago — it may have been an American news program, but they were talking about some kind of training program for the officers because they’d be the First Responders if something went wrong with the taser. I’d be interested to find what training the Ottawa cops have to go through on the medical side… like, what exactly happens if they were to taser someone with epilepsy. Actually, the only health studies that I’m aware of that have been done come from the manufacturer, so maybe an advocacy group for epileptics might be able to get information from the manufacturer if any study has been done…
About “banning” them… I think that’s reaching. I think there’d be more success in getting them restrained. They’re meant to be used as an alternative to guns, or deadly force. The actual idea of a taser is to save lives by not having cops open fire on someone, but the RCMP have taken to using them as a first option, not a last.
Glad to see you two using the blog, it’s a great way to connect with people… but you gotta use those categories and tags.
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