Up Close & Personal w / a stun gun or pepper spray
Up close and personal with a stun gun or pepper spray
This is part of the survival mentality and thinking. To survive a personal attack, you should already have the mentality of survival. However, this is not a way of thinking Hocus Pocus. It is a way of life. It's really no different than planning a route as they drive to work or shopping. I hope that not only drive blindly through a "bad" neighborhood without realizing that it could be in serious trouble.
No, no, of course. If the bad neighborhood is between you and your destination, plan a route around it. That's not living in fear or stay at home because it is too dangerous to go out side. You have a survival mentality. Do you lock your home when you leave? I hope so! Then you already have a survival mentality! It may only be necessary to update a little. Is a stun gun seems out of place? Try it! If you continue to do so, despite how uncomfortable it seems at first, will become as natural as using your clothes! Really!
I remember when first became a certified Law Enforcement Officer. I was a Florida Park Ranger. I was much younger then and thought it was so cool to be issued a gun and gun belt to go with my green uniform of the park and pick up. I was driving around the 5000-acre park in my four wheel drive Dodge Power Wagon, feeling like the sheriff in Walking Tall. But if I went to the city, it felt very strange to use a firearm in public! After a while, wearing a uniform with a gun was very natural for me. The use of a weapon in plain clothes took a little getting used to. It took a little longer, but when I thought of the consequences, like seeing another officer who needed help or run with someone who had stopped, I found myself wearing it and felt perfectly normal.
Taking a stun gun or pepper spray with you and get used to it it should be, I think, a normal daily routine. It should be as routine as getting dressed, shaving for men or putting the makeup women. Get to the idea that carry the stun gun, especially those seen as a cell phone should be as natural as holding an umbrella over his head if it is raining. That's right! You do it to protect yourself!
Now that you're protected with a nonlethal weapon, lets talk about it and God lead forbid, is ready for use. Now have a license to carry firearms. I have several pistols, a .38 revolver and a snub nose S & W 40 cal semi automatic. But neither gun and, especially, the S & W 40 cal just is not real easy to carry in street clothes.
Twenty years later, I would like to believe I am well passed the "shy" side. But I worry that someone will notice it or lump on my clothes and alarmed to call the police. During cooler weather, carrying a concealed handgun is much easier because we tend to wear clothes that do a good job of concealing a firearm. But that's the problem!
The more you hide a weapon more difficult it will get there if you ever need! A weapon must be easily accessible for use in a violent encounter. You simply can not walk to his car after work carrying a 357 magnum in her hand. However, if a bad guy was an ambush and the weapon is in your bag or under his coat in a holster on your belt, you might as well have none.
Exactly the same with a nonlethal weapon. You should have it ready to use and defend itself same. If the weapon is in the glove box or at the bottom of your bag, is almost useless. Yes, there are some ladies handbags that are designed to carry a gun. And there are some jackets and waistcoats of the men who offer excellent concealment of a firearm and still be ready for immediate use. We will cover these and techniques on how to use them tomorrow.
A weapon like a stun gun that looks like a cell phone is so valuable. You can take the non-lethal weapon, without disturbing anyone! Nobody is going to call the police to report a madman walk the mall with a cell phone in your hand! I like the cell phone stun gun, but others are so small and are equally effective.
There are stun guns that pack 100,000 volts of power. There are some very small package of weapons stunning 2.7 million volts! That not a bad print! 2.7 million volts! The voltage over shorter time you have to really what I have in the bad. Small, say 100,000 volts to be held on 3-5 to the bad guys in seconds! That takes too long! 800 000 volts to keep it there for 2-3 seconds, 2.7 million volts The model says that only touch! Do not worry NO shock return to you, even if their bodies are touching.
A bad guy who jumps from behind, the gun already in his hand,
ZAP! The jab as part of the body is the closest and falls into a heap, drooling like a baby with eyes in his head. This is where planning, playing the roll, the practice enters its total value. If you've never done before, it will be difficult to do under the pressure of a violent encounter. Get with a partner and practice the whole thing several times. NO, I do not mean to stun his partner, simply use any small object and gradually harmless at first, go through the motions until you can do automatically and without even pausing for a micro second to think about it. Practice hitting in the neck, side, leg, groin, whatever works for you.
This is life or death, survival. WOW, its just like any other routine!
For example: I was working on my day off right "off" details on the 5th floor of the courthouse. Yes, I was one of those guys that made you empty their pockets in those small bowls before you walked through the metal detector. A man came and put his stuff in the bowl and a big box letter on the table. As I started to open his wallet, turned and went through the metal detector's alarm sounded.
Now this was actually very common. belt buckles, pens, people do not think, off the alarms. I instructed the man to back up so I can check it. As a copy security reached into his jacket open and saw the handle of a handgun. I reacted as I always planned that I would. He grabbed my hand I was going for the weapon, throwing arm up, my right hand clutching his shoulder and turning around, everything at once, was on the table between us. I kept the momentum pushed him against the wall and pulled the pistol from his belt. His weapon came into my back pocket with my right hand and wives who had just appeared behind my gun in my right hand sleeve right hand was immersed in the process of my left hand. The type was hand cuffed down hard on his back, then grabbed my left hand and dropped to the back and sleeves finished it.
Wow, that was harder to write than it was to do it! All that was done in a few seconds. Another officer, a corrections officer, prison, sat in a chair at the end of the table, she never moved! A lawyer who knew the too many lawsuits was right behind the guy with the gun. He turned white as sheet. I looked down to see what was hitting my knee, which was my other knee! My knees were playing together! I shook it to be searched and the type to make sure they had all their weapons. The bag contained $ 25,000 in cash. The man refused to talk.
He was booked into jail on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a firearm in a courthouse. I never knew why there was so much money. The point of my story is as follows:
I was ready. I had trained for this, I had tried an incident in my head over and over again. The movement mechanic was natural for me when I needed to survive! When other officials heard of the arrest, statements like: "Oh, I would've shot or I would have pulled out my pistol and ordered him to put his hands up, "etc. Well, if the scenario had played out just a second micro way different, I would have reacted differently, as I had trained to do. If your hand had already been in the gun when I first saw it, then my reaction have been different. If I was not already so close to him, my response would have been different. You can survive dangerous situations. Plan for them. Practices for dangerous situations. Rehearse in your mind or, better yet, test with a partner.
Be prepared. Get a survival mentality. Get a gun electricity, which are great!
Paul Foreman
About the Author
Paul is a retired deputy sheriff from Southwest Florida. Paul served in several agencies from 1973 thru 1999. Paul’s experiences allow him to share real life threatening situations and give advise on how you can survive too. Paul served in the Patrol Division where he was a FTO, or Field Training Officer. Paul trained the new rookies. Paul also served in the Juvenile Division where he worked with middle school kids who had been Suspended out of school. Instead, they were put into Paul’s “Alternative to Suspension” class, where Paul instructed them on how to stay of of trouble.
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