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This tactic reminds me of carrying a decoy wallet. A wallet with a bunch of ones with a larger bill, and expired library cards or similar. Its common with tourists to some regions.
you can get belly bands that can hold your wallet and firearm whilre you carry that 2nd one .
they also have wallet holsters .. these look like wallets but contain a firearm you dont even have to pull it out of the wallet to shoot ....
This tactic reminds me of carrying a decoy wallet. A wallet with a bunch of ones with a larger bill, and expired library cards or similar. Its common with tourists to some regions.
When I lived in New Orleans I had such a decoy wallet
My decoy was an actual leather wallet that I kept in my front pocket. My actual wallet was a thin metal case where I kept my debit and credit cards.
Pepper spray may deter a robber. But for a crazy hammer wielding person,..maybe something more robust is needed.
Not maybe ,, definitely.
Mentally ill and those that are drug fueled are a whole other ball game .....
In training we were taught to imagine a 20ft diameter circle ....even if you shot someone directly in the heart , they can live long enough to cover 20 ft and stab or hack you to death . Drugs make it even longer .....
The only defense is to keep shooting at the pelvis area shattering it making it physically impossible to carry out the attack ....it is a good target under stress since it is the widest part of the body
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Gotta Love these videos.
The people in the videos are not the people you will be facing on a Manhattan street at 3
in the morning. They will be homeless, psychotic,insane or on drugs. Using pepper spray
can stop a criminal dead in his tracks if used properly.
Pepper spray for the average person is an added measure ( among many choices )
of self defense against an unavoidable attack.
It is highly unlikely that the the criminal will be any of those in the above videos.
Lord help us if they were to suddenly go bonkers. Pepper spray would be useless.
We are not living in an every man for himself or militarized zone just yet.
Gun Control is till enforced and policing although diminished is still employed.
If you are a person that lacks the ability to defend be prepared to use anything to drive
off your attacker if it comes down to an unavoidable physical confrontation. True self
defense employed results in making it home safely. Pepper spray can be one of many choices.
I feel I don't need it right now. The places where I'm walking around in New York now are quiet and peaceful
- so much so, they are becoming boring
But anyway if things get worse what do you think of pepper spray? There are also high intensity flashlights that can daze someone with light at night and they could also be like a small club
One thing I have noticed about knives is that if someone is harassing you and you pull out a knife it might scare them off. On the other hand if you pull out any weapon and another person doesn't have one pulled out it sometimes has the opposite effect and escalates the situation. The person might have though " I was going to stop harassing this person but now they have pulled out a weapon on me, now I have got to defend my pride and pick up a bottle or something and get them"
But there could be a million things in a given person's head
I don't like even having to think about stuff like this and if it gets to be a lot I'm thinking I'm not going to want to be here. Why not just go anyplace else? Because other places can have their own problems
Pepper spray, what do you think of it as a defensive weapon?
To me, that's pointless paranoia, keeping in mind the low crime rate in comparison to when it was high.
Much better to learn to exercise caution in general. That said, I'll add that I was happy to take a self-defense class a long time ago.
I used to have a short handle axe under my front seat, not sure where it disappeared to lol. Fun car weapons over the years. The traditional aluminum baseball bat, hammer, axe, long car antennae (oooohhh that stings), wasp/hornet spray, lots of fun handy legal weapons out there to use. When you deal with animals, you have to treat them as such. Animals know two things, positive and negative reinforcement. Bad animals get negative reinforcement, and stop their behavior quickly from said negative reinforcement.
Pepper spray may not be effective on everyone, especially if one's aim is off. As with any kind of self defense, adrenalin and the flight/fight bodily response may hinder it from even being used.
This.
I’m a gun guy, loosely speaking, and that very fact has kept me from getting a carry license.
Keep in mind that carrying self defense items also up the stakes for the attacker - a panicked mugger or rapist might kill, perhaps not even intending to, if you introduce that into the situation.
Pepper spray, though, might be one of the better options. It’s not likely to be mistaken for a gun and doesn’t necessarily need the precision of a gun. Legalities are easier to navigate unless you’re in Canada. And they’re small enough to be on your keychain.
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