Nope, tasers are used as portable torture devices all over the place now, Palin's family experienced a taseing incident.  Check this: 72 year old great-grandmonther tasered in Texas (video).  But as we now realize from bush era chicanery, kidnapping, torture, and murder, everything is bigger in Texas, especially the assholes.

Why does it take something this obscene to highlight just what tasers are really used for?  Was the officer's life threatened?  Nope, just his ego.  Email or call  this sherrif's department and demand that the officer in question be fired.  Scarborough called for mass reponse on his show, for once I agree with him.