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Friday, December 1, 2006
To Taser Or Not To Taser? That Is The Question
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Earlier this week, a Jonesboro Middle School student got the shock of his life — literally — when a school resource officer used a stun gun to subdue him during an attack on a fellow student.
Other states, including Florida, have experienced highly publicized incidents of disorderly pupils being Tasered in school. But, according to our latest report, this was believed to be the first in metro Atlanta, where few school resource officers carry the weapons.
Granted, the boy, 11, was endangering a classmate. But is using a weapon — particularly one as controversial as a Taser, which has been blamed with some grown men’s deaths — ever appropriate in a school, let alone on a child?
