you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 19 points 1 year ago (15 children)

My pocket stun gun was $19.99. Decided I needed a defense mechanism I could conceal after an encounter with a scary aggressive homeless man.

Also has a flashlight.

  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Be careful with a stungun. It requires close range confrontation, and It's not effective if the assailant is drugged up or heavily drunk and ignores the shocks.

    Mace gives good distance, and pepper in the eyes doesn't care about the stimulants in your blood stream.

    Also practice with it. A large number of people carry self defense tools and choke under pressure/fail to use it correctly during situations.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I tested it on myself.

    It works fine.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Go judge someone else. It wasn't my decision to turn whole cities into mental institutions. It was Ronald Reagan's.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Apologies.

    Every time I mention I had a run-in with a homeless person, some self-righteous SJW discounts my experience and infers that I must have been in the wrong, though I was just sitting on a bus minding my own business on the way to work. My city has fare-free buses, so we end up having a lot of close encounters with untreated homeless people. (Also why I carry a stun-gun instead of mace, so if I have to use it there's no chance of friendly fire.)

    So I figured you were another one here to cast aspersions, and I have a short fuse with it for sure. My mistake.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment