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Should Security Guards beable to hold tasers?
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Posted 3 months ago I have been a security officer for about 2 years now and I have just recently been certified to hold a taser…At the location that I work at many of the people have said for a security guard to be holding a taser is too much…I was just woundering if you saw a security officer with a taser would it be okay? |
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| Posted 3 months ago I've seen security guards that are allowed to carry guns.....so what is the big deal with carrying a taser? If you are allowed to carry pepper spray, OC, or a baton...then a taser should be OK too. The problem you have is with people's misconceptions about the taser, but you can't do anything about their ignorance. JMO |
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| Posted 3 months ago In our work...bad things can happen at anytime to anyone wearing a badge. (Security Officers included) ALL should welcome any tools provided to bring in the bad guys safely and without officer injury. WEAR I T WITH PRIDE brother. |
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| Posted 3 months ago CAtrooper said: Exactly. We can carry a gun, and use it if we have to, but let us deploy a taser and people will go nuts. Especially the campus hippies that some of us have to deal with. Misconceptions are there because people choose to be ignorant on a subject and follow the 'crowd' on opinions. Being 'able to carry' and 'should we carry' are different things. Yes, every member of my campus security department could handle carrying a taser with the proper training, blah blah blah. But the contract company in the next town over (that I worked for many years ago) has the habit of hiring idiots, and from what I've seen and heard nothing has changed. Give them tasers and something dumb will happen. I think that if an individual officer is seen fit to carry, then it would be good. Maybe in AZ it wouldn't cause a big deal, but in my area people would go nuts. Maybe I should move.
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| Posted 3 months ago And congrats, btw, on getting certified.
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| Posted 3 months ago Well, you can now HOLD a taser, are you allowed to use it too. |
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| Posted 3 months ago It's great to have, I've rarely had to use mine. Corrections and Security, and armed with an x26 at both, only had a few incidents at the jail that I've decided to use my taser for instead of other means to subdue a threat. Remember that the legal recourse brought on by blood sucking lawyers becomes quite the hassle. Also, be wary of any coworkers that tend to be a little badge heavy [this happens in security just as in law enforcement, unfourtunately. They want to pretend to be cops, to stroke their tiny ego]. They can get your whole staff into hot water with one stupid misuse of the taser, believe me! Red blooded right wing Christian, anti-hippie nutjob. Any questions? An unarmed man is a subject, not a citizen. Protect your rights, carry a gun responsibly. Do your civic duty, support the death penality for politicians! |
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| Posted 3 months ago CAtrooper said: I second this.... Congrats on getting certified for the tazer though! Are you able to carry it now? I don't laugh in death's face. I tend to make belittling comments and snigger behind death's back. |
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| Posted 3 months ago CBone8408 said: Yes, I am able to acually carry it on my duty belt and deploy it if necessary. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I have just recently been certified to hold a taser…At the location that I work at many of the people have said for a security guard to be holding a taser is too much… Well as long as you are just holding it I don't think you are going to hurt yourself. Do you have to buy your own batteries? Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Senator Barry Goldwater |
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| Posted 3 months ago When you get one here's how you get certified, don't mind the look on her face she forgot to stand in a tub of water to neutralize the effects.
this is the second time the same guy posted the same question PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY! |
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| Posted 3 months ago He's one of Cal's buddies, KSP... "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." - George S. Patton |
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| Posted 3 months ago No you should not have a Taser, ok, drop it! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Damn welded her braces together. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -Senator Barry Goldwater |
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| Posted 3 months ago With a stun gun?....not a taser.... |
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| Posted 3 months ago
Probably the same brand.... |
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| Posted 3 months ago Sobay96 said: HMMMMMM, is she kin to you? |
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| Posted 3 months ago Nope, ask KSP494.......(grin) |
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| Posted 3 months ago Sobay96 said: ???????????????????????????????? |
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| Posted 3 months ago nope too many teeth I'm the only one left with original teeth. PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY! |
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| Posted 3 months ago HaHa, I knew he couldn't let it go! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Well duh you send me a PM telling me folks are talking trash and thats what happens, you just like to start $h!t PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Lulusgt said: I agree and disagree. Security guards tend to be hit or miss. Good guy just trying to make it, or complete moron who wants to be a cop, but isn't good enough. The good guards understand the taser isn't a toy, and not something to randomly threaten teenagers with, when they don't comply when you give them a direction [As much as I'd love to taser those losers, it just doesn't work that way]. Then there are the idiots, and there are LOTS of them. When I was in high school, I did mall security. I once saw a guard in his upper 20's threaten a 12 year old with handcuffs and OC spray because the kid was sitting on a railing. Issuing the taser to good guards generally means issuing it to the bad guards as well, unfourtunately [And sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference from a higher up's stand point, who isn't always observing them.]
Red blooded right wing Christian, anti-hippie nutjob. Any questions? An unarmed man is a subject, not a citizen. Protect your rights, carry a gun responsibly. Do your civic duty, support the death penality for politicians! |
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| Posted 3 months ago At a prior place of employment, [private university to remain nameless] they took away Security carrying {dept approved personally owned} Firearms and replaced them with Tasers....That (among other reasons) caused me to resign.... If it was Only Tasers to start, ok... or if they ADDED Tasers, again ok... but Less Lethal Force should NEVER be considered a replacement for a deadly force option.... Psychotics build castles in the air, Neurotics live in those castles, and Psychiatrists collect the rent. |
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| Posted 3 days ago I AGREE........WE CARRY THE BULLET SHOOTER THINGIE AND PEPPER SPRAY SO WHY NOT A TAZER? TAZ EM; BRO! BZZZZZZZT!!! |
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| Posted 2 days ago LASecurity says ...
How about this...cgregor can have a tazer but LA Mall Ninja here should stay away....deal? ¡GØÐ HņH ÑØ ƒÜR¥ †HÂÑ À Pϧ§ËР؃ƒ PÁRņRØØPËR! Ríø†!™ |
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| Posted 2 days ago Riot says ...
I can't tell if he's funny or sad?! I reject your reality and submit my own. |
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| Posted 2 days ago I think if your trained then so be it there are many times when a cap stun is just not practicle. I run a security company in New york and we can Carry guns, but not tazer's wich are less- lethal.. Home land security and New york state are trying to change this. So to answer your question I don't have a problem with security officers carrying tazer's i think its a good idea! the truth be known now, tormorrow, or by your maker by G.T.Millet 07/14/08 |
