Enough to drop a grown man to the ground from just little batteries how?
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Tazers have transformers which step up the voltage from a handful of volts to tens of thousands.
Why isn’t it lethal? Because like the big jump in voltage (electrical force), there is a just as big drop in current (electrical flow) and current is what kills. There is enough flow to mess with voluntary muscle control but not enough to stop a heart. Even though it can’t stop your heart, it could cause a disturbance in the rhythm and trigger a problem though so don’t test it out. Tazers are considered “less lethal”, not “non-lethal”.
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