Saturday, August 23, 2008

The media people are killing them!

Taser International Inc Stock Symbol TASR: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=TASR&t=1y
News people everywhere keep referring to all Stun Guns as Tasers and all persons hit with a Stun Gun as those having been Tasered. Tasered???
This is no more correct than describing all persons injured in a car accident as having been Chevroleted for Forded.
Taser is a brand name of a Stun Gun and I suspect any person zapped with a Taser would then have been . . . Tazed.
And, any person zapped with a Generic Stun Gun would then be described as having been Stunned.
Have any doubt please Google the words "Stun Gun" and I suspect you will likely come up with 1,430,000 hits in 00.7 seconds (or less) and Tasers will be among them.
News folks please give the Taser folks a break as their products have saved untold numbers of lives and many more persons from suffering unnecessary injuries.

Any more unintended bashing will only cause more suffering.

Late up date: 8-24-08 It looks as people in the industry join me in the concern. To all of them, you are welcome.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good for you for trying to correct the media and public on the differences between a taser and a stun gun! I even wrote an article on the differences:
http://www.selfdefenseproductsflorida.com/Should-I-Buy-A-Stun-Gun-Or-Taser-Gun.html

5:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so glad that you are trying to educate people on the difference between a stun gun and a taser as there is a huge difference. Thank You

6:10 AM  

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