Are you taking into consideration buying TASER weapons for self defense purposes, but not knowing whether or not these weapons are really lethal is keeping you from making a decision? Maybe you are amid thousands of people who explore the world-wide-web daily for a transparent and authoritative answer…only to stumble on conflictive conclusions about the subject matter. Search no more. We got the response deciphered for you.

Can TASER weapons kill? The most educated answer is: "not really". Emergency medicine researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (working together with investigators from the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia, Louisiana State University, and University Medical Center in Nevada) studied nearly 1,000 cases of TASER products use throughout the United States. Their research results exposed that there were either no physical damage or only mild injuries (scrapes and bruises) in the vast majority of the cases (99.7%) of TASER products' employment. Though there were indeed two incidents of head injuries (caused by falls) and still one case in which someone was hospitalized with a condition "of unclear relationship to the TASER", these three occurrences altogether constituted only 0.3 percent of the total number of cases (these research results were offered in 2007 at the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum in Seattle, Washington).

In spite of these facts, you may still ask yourself about those cases in which individuals have really passed over after being subjected to the TASER product's electric discharge. Although those lamentable incidents are totally irrefutable, later investigations have exposed that there is no conclusive data to defend the belief that TASER self defense weapons actually caused those deaths, a conclusion that harmonizes with the research results of a report published in 2008 by the U.S. National Institute of Justice ("Study of Deaths Following Electro Muscular Disruption: Interim Report"). In most cases it hasn’t been comprehensible if disproportionate police force (combined with the physical stress that comes with the verbal altercation, physical struggle or physical restraint) has been the responsible factor.

The same research established that no medical proof exists to support the belief that TASER self defense products may bring on cardiac dysrhythmia when deployed reasonably. Nevertheless, the medical risks of repeated or uninterrupted electric discharges are still unspecified, so the TASER product should be used that way only for self defense situations in which your life (or that of a family member) is in serious danger, and when the benefits of using it repeatedly or continuously far outweighs the probable risks for the criminal.

That issue is even more significant when considering the wellbeing of assailants who suffer heart conditions and/or other medical problems: although there are no authoritative answers on their specific case, these individuals are still considered to be the most susceptible to the effects of these self defense devices.

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