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Gameplay Strategy Guide for The Sum (Nous Aurons) by Endocore. The information in this guide is based on playing The Sum version 1.6a (in April 2022), and thus subject to change as development of the game is ongoing.
Here in the 21st century, we like to pride ourselves on our innovation. Yet authors writing a century ago had many of the same problems we have today, and
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Rick and Tom Smith introduced the world to the Taser in the 1990s. Now the siblings compete in a $7 billion market for non-lethal weapons, at a time of intense scrutiny of police violence.
In December, police in Fruitland, Maryland, responded to a report of a man in distress. They’d had to deal with him before: His seizures caused him to become violent with his family. Rather than reaching for a Taser or using physical force, they turned to a device called Bola Wrap. When the officer fired, a Kevlar rope exploded from his hand like a web from Spider-Man's wrist and wrapped itself around the target’s arms. The man’s mother asked, “So, it’s not like a Taser?” The officer responded, “It’s for stuff like this because they don’t mean to hurt anybody.”
There are times when law enforcement officers or military personnel need to subdue a person or group of people without using lethal force. They rely upon a variety of tools and tactics to achieve this goal. Some of those tools include items like riot shields, batons and tear gas. One less-than-lethal tool is the
Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle, or
Taser.
electronic control device (
ECD). The typical Taser device is a handheld gadget that fires a pair of pins tethered to the handset by electrical wires. The handset sends pulses of high voltage electricity to the pins. Anyone shot by a Taser will experience
taser. you do not taser somebody multiple times. there are proven deaths. there have been many actions, lawsuits amounting to millions of dollars. there is no question, what you are doing is you are producing an electrical shock, okay, and that's the problem. remember, taser, it's a weapon. thomas a. smith's electric rifle. that's taser. thomas a. smith electric rifle. it's a rifle. it's a weapon. and it is to be used with care and consideration and caution, not as it was used in this case. these police were totally out of control. and then when someone is injured and is bleeding, instead of taking him into the hospital, where you are present, you put him in your police car and take him to jail because now you are teed off. this guy just isn't behaving properly and we are going to show him, we are going to take him to prison instead of taking him to the hospital. this is not proper police conduct. >> we will have a lot more as we cover this story. we thank ari melber, who broke this story, and dr. wecht. not associated with the case but