| Personal safety has become such a fundamental part | | | | stun gun is that you can be rest assured it does not |
| of our day-to-day lives. It is an unsafe world out | | | | cause any permanent effects and is not deadly. It |
| there. Violence and crime are on an all time high, be it | | | | does not even affect the vital organs of the body |
| in a metropolitan city or in a small town. In situations | | | | like the heart. They come in varying shapes and sizes. |
| like these one cannot expect to find instantaneous | | | | The most modern stun guns are compact and easy |
| help from security guards or the cops. It is thus | | | | to carry. They are sometimes manufactured in the |
| better to keep yourself equipped with materials that | | | | shape of a lipstick, cell phones, lipstick, flashlight, |
| would help you get rid of the unwanted elements of | | | | penlights, and so on. They also have power options. |
| the society. It is wiser to take immediate steps to | | | | However, stun guns can prove to be dangerous to |
| protect ourselves rather than be vulnerable to these | | | | people with poor heart conditions. Stun guns have a |
| attacks and give in to physical injury or loss of | | | | disadvantage of being misused by the bad guys |
| valuables. | | | | themselves or by kids on innocent people for cheap |
| The equipment used more frequently these days for | | | | fun. |
| self defense is stun guns and pepper sprays. This | | | | Pepper spray is yet another effective but safe self |
| also proves to be a huge boon to women who lead | | | | defense equipment that is frequently used against |
| single lives and have to travel at unusual times of the | | | | ill-doers. It is a canister that contains a derivative of |
| day. These women are the major target of groups | | | | cayenne pepper. It is stored in an oil based solution. It |
| that employ themselves in unscrupulous crimes like | | | | causes a sting in the eye and the skin and may |
| rapes and even gang rapes. Stun guns and pepper | | | | cause temporary blindness. It also affects the nasal |
| sprays are the most famous handy self defense | | | | cavity and the mouth. The application of the pepper |
| gadgets which are readily available in the market. | | | | spray results in the occurrence of swelling and |
| Moreover, we also can make our own stun guns at | | | | inflammation and gives rise to severe burning |
| home. | | | | sensation. Pepper sprays are comparatively safer |
| A stun gun is an equipment that immobilizes the | | | | than gases or mace that can cause permanent |
| assailant. It transfers high voltage current onto the | | | | irreparable damage. The only precaution to be taken |
| body of the attacker. Although the amperage in the | | | | is that the nozzle of the can is facing the right |
| stun gun is considerably low, it does not cause any | | | | direction. Also one needs to be really alert and must |
| permanent damage to the attacker. The stun gun is | | | | have presence of mind in order to rightly take |
| ideally aimed at the muscular parts of the body like | | | | advantage of a pepper spray. Sometimes people |
| the buttocks, thigh, and shoulders. The basics of a | | | | under heavy drugs do not get affected by pepper |
| stun gun includes the passage of current via the | | | | sprays. This works at our disadvantage. It is |
| muscles at a high pulse rate thus causing the muscles | | | | imperative to know other self defense techniques |
| to work quite fast and lose out all the energy also | | | | and not depend on just the pepper spray. An |
| reducing the blood sugar. As a result of energy loss, | | | | attacker under the dose of drugs may show |
| the muscle movements signaled by neurological | | | | reactions but may not feel the pain and instead might |
| impulses get interrupted thus causing disorientation in | | | | grab the can from your hands and use it on you. |
| the attacker getting him confused and shocked for a | | | | Improper use of pepper spray may even land you in |
| few minutes. Interestingly enough, the stun gun user | | | | jail. It should be kept far away from the reach of |
| does not receive any shock even if they touch the | | | | children. |
| attacker after giving the shock. The advantage of a | | | | |