ACLU Protests LA Sheriff's Plan to Use Heat-Beam Gun to Tame Unruly Inmates

• Lets' see here, Taser Guns have already been proven to kill people and they're being abused all the time(Read: Old Lady in Hospital Bed gets tasered). Mace gets abused all of the time by our fine police officers' considering it CAN and HAS actually blinded those whom it was used improperly on, these were not criminals but protestors', something that IS accepted by our constitution, ya know, free speech? The Pistols' are abused all the time(Read, kids dying because of water-guns and fruit in pocket that MAY have resembled a weapon of mass destruction). Lets' give them MORE weaponry with which to kill us or harm us by their abuse of said weaponry. Yes. Why don't we just say fuck it and give them hand grenades for protestors? Note, most Protests do NOT end in violent riots yet can STILL be treated as one by the Polices' manipulation of events to media and improper media handling(on either sides) of the event.

• I say we go to Billy Squire!!! Maybe a little Tom Sawyer for the soul? Or maybe a little Queen? Crazy little thing called Love? I'm sure most of these prisoners been in there since the 80's and could really appreciate some really good music then the rap that is out there right now! I really don't think, Ice T's Cop Killer should be played though. That might give them incentive to attack a fucked up guard!!!! To a serious note! Just what some outlaw cops need, more new toys to try out on innocent people. the tazers and stun guns are no longer chic. So new toys for the boys! and i love the Bee Gees. Got all of their music (going bck to 1967) and better yet... it's all on 8track!!!! (which i have a working player!) To funny.

• anything's better than Quiet Riot-except for the Bee Gees...I say we pipe in the Bee Gee's to tame those unruly bastards.

• Better than Quiet Riot

• Is that Foreigner you're quoting, Trajan? You're scaring me today. For some reason, I don't know if I'd want a lawyer capable of quoting Foreigner.

• @CallMeMister So true.`

• "I'm hot blooded, check it and see. I got fever of 103."

• "The device would only be used on violent inmates, says the sheriff." Yea, just like stun guns are only meant to be used on violent suspects resisting arrest or threatening people. Like that 10 year old girl. Or the 82 year old woman we've read about previously. I'm guessing these heat beam guns are meant to take down those megalomaniacal paraplegics who terrorize innocent daywalkers!!

• Listening to the ACLU b*tch and moan is torture. Please explain to me how a violent inmate - such as a child rapist/murderer - has more rights than the person(s) he's killed? Once you commit a crime and it's proven to be you, you should lose all rights... including the right to b*tch and moan, let alone live.

• Stun guns? Heat Beams? Give them a whiff of grape shot! It worked for Napolean.

• Stun guns? Heat Beams? Give them a whiff of grape shot! It worked for Napolean.

• Cooking prisoners? And we denounced the Soviets for their treatment of their prisoners? Perhaps next, we can make these available to LE in general, so instead of tasing a 6 year old, they can fry him. I don't understand why we need more and more exotic and dangerous weapons for use as a tool of law enforcement... amazing and disturbing.

• about this heat beam nonsense, I don't trust prison guards with disciplinary weapons like that....these things are often taken advantage of example : http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/08/nicholas_pinto_beaten_into_com.php

• Wow Amy...how about you NOT being immature and start slinging names? I real intellect can hold two opposed ideas while maintaining the ability to function...clearly something you are unable to accomplish. Are you upset about what twisted cherry said because you are one of those "rehabilitated criminals"??? Have you even bothered to see what it costs to house an inmate for a year? I'll give you a hint...more what I spend on myself in a year (and im a young 24 yr old professional AND I OWN my house". I agree that the "free education" is good because it allows them to come out with skills that may be beneficial to our society and maybe get real jobs...however, can you NOT understand why that might piss people off considering we have to pay through our noses for the education we get?? And im sorry but cable TV and movies have nothing to do with rehabilitating these criminals...it's just another useless bill at the tax payers expense. P.S hey guys!!! criminals get free health care too...well not exactly free. YOU pay for it

• At Twisted Cherry- why don't you shut the f*!k up, you are clearly talking out of your fat @$$! Why wouldn't we want to atleast try and reform our prisoners so that when they are done serving their debt to society they can come out and not make the same mistakes that put them there.

• *yanks box out of Fedex driver's hands* Uh, ok CT, no worries. Ya' know, I might want one of these too. Of course the ACLU hates it. I don't know why they prefer prisoners be beaten and Tased, but apparently so. Those looney lefty knee-jerkers, if they didn't think of it, IT'S CRAP!

• Yeah, I guess that would be cruel to interrupt their cable TV / movie time. Or their free "education" and arts n crafts time when they get a little pissy and 'act up'. I mean, they are just criminals right, its not like they would kill a guard the first chance they got, or another inmate, right?

• Alexa -- hold off on my Malibu Barbie taser order - I think I want one of these instead.

• I don't understand why they're trying to use these instead of stun guns.

• I bet heat-beam abuse would be hard to prove if the sheriff planted a hot pocket you.

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