A New Metropolitan Police Publicity Stunt

The metropolitan police have shunned Jaqui Smiths offer of funding for taser guns as part of their latest publicity stunt. They claim that they do not want the public to feel frightened by the thought of none-specialist officers carrying the guns and having the jurisdiction to use them when they see fit. However, in a city teeming with the countries most ruthless criminals would it not be a safer option to impose a stronger deterrent? In a country where human rights favours animals more than it does its citizens we require something more than the fear of being man handled to the ground by a police officer. Amnesty International have stated that 'hundreds' of people have died due to taser guns in the USA and Canada, this statement comes across as being more harrowing than it actually is, those 'hundreds' actually amount to less than 400, a feeble number when you consider the combined population of these two countries.
As a member of the public, I feel as though taser guns would make me feel safer. I am speaking as someone who abides by the law and does not intend to put myself in a situation where I may face 50,000 vaults of electricity. When the metropolitan police say that they do not want to scare the public, I am almost certain that they are referring to those that will brawl, attack, deal drugs, prostitute, burgle and worse. Over the past year we have been told repeatedly that our jails are overflowing and that early releases are carried out to ease the pressure. Consider this when thinking of the absence of taser guns, if the most a criminal faces is a night in a cell along with community service due to the lack of prison cells then there is hardly a deterrent at all. All the metropolitan police force are succeeding in doing by releasing this statement is scaring the law abiding citizens, relieving criminals, planting a smile on the face of human rights activists and easing their own consciences.