In the 1990s, the brothers Rick and Tom Smith amp up a decades-old invention to create their electricity-zapping “home run product,” and then find tremendous success . But as their company grows, they make decisions that would have lasting impact on both the public and their increasingly skeptical customer base.
Therein lies Berardini's critique: using naught but his subjects' own words, he paints a portrait of men who have been dazzled by profits at the expense of their ethics.
Though at times not for the fainthearted, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle takes subject matter many of us probably give little thought to at all in day to day life and asks us to consider it deeply.
Relying entirely on flawed cases and weak lawsuits from the mid-2000s, "Killing Them Safely" is a very poor indictment of TASER International, the manufacturer of the widely used and mostly safe electronic weapon.
