• snoons
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    1 year ago

    Officers deployed a conducted energy weapon

    What a funny way to say taser. My first thought was they had laser pistols or something.

    “Damn, we must really be living in the future.”

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      1 year ago

      It’s because TASER is a brand name. Also TASER is short for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.

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        1 year ago

        @snoons

        Well that, but also a laser/plasma pistol would be a projected energy weapon.