{"id":5580,"date":"2010-09-29T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2010-09-29T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:10:40","slug":"taser-shotgun-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/29\/taser-shotgun-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"Taser shotgun shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a word, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/shortsharpscience\/2010\/09\/taser-shotgun-firm-shoots-itse.html\" target=\"_blank\">YIKES<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Taser-shotgun-shell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Taser shotgun shell\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Taser-shotgun-shell.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Taser-shotgun-shell-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Taser-shotgun-shell-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That is something <em>nobody<\/em> wants to be hit with, especially fired out of a shotgun.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;X12&#8221; Taser shotgun is made by Taser International of Scottsdale, Arizona and fires a battery-packed 12-bore shell with forward-facing barbs that deliver a debilitating electric shock.<\/p>\n<p>In August last year, <em>New Scientist<\/em> revealed research that showed an early version of the weapon was both difficult to aim accurately, putting victims&#8217; eyes at risk, and sometimes delivered a shock for more than five minutes, rather than 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A five minute jolt rather blurs the line between non-lethal and kinda-sorta-lethal, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a word, YIKES! That is something nobody wants to be hit with, especially fired out of a shotgun. The &#8220;X12&#8221; Taser shotgun is made by Taser International of Scottsdale, Arizona and fires a battery-packed 12-bore shell with forward-facing barbs that deliver a debilitating electric shock. In August last year, New Scientist revealed research that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[497,49,471,98],"class_list":["post-5580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-electricity","tag-guns","tag-nonlethalweapons","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1s0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}