About 60 people came to the meeting to hear what the organization had to say. 

The organization seeks to ban TASER use within Columbia city limits, including TASER use by police officers.

Speakers included Catherine Parke, who helped start the campaign, and Athena Bachtel, the mother of Stanley Harlan. Harlan was the 23-year-old who died after Moberly police used a TASER on him in August 2008.

"The point about law enforcement is that, fundamentally, it should be about peacekeeping," Parke said.

Parke said she feels TASER use is unsafe, even for trained police officers. 

Officer Jeff Westbrook said he disagrees.

"If tasers are taken out, that's removing a valuable tool that police officers have in their tool belts right now to keep them [officers] from getting hurt and to keep suspects from getting hurt," Westbrook said.

Bachtel stood in front of the crowd and said, "Murder is murder, whether you have a badge or not. I believe these TASERs are a torture device and should be listed as so."

The TASER-Free group hopes to raise awareness about what it feels to be the dangers of TASERs. The group hopes the ban proposal will make it on the November 2010 ballot.