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I’m getting a gun. If violent people are anything like wild animals, pepper spray is safer and more effective. You actually have a good chance of hitting your

I’m getting a gun. If violent people are anything like wild animals, pepper spray is safer and more effective. You actually have a good chance of hitting your attacker with a stream pepper spray, unlike with a tiny bullet. Your attacker (in the case of, say, a moose) is more likely to run away when hit with pepper than with a bullet. And you are less likely to have collateral damage.

hpoe 6y ago
Just throwing out there violent people are not like wild amnimals, and in 94% of cases simply drawing a firearm is enough to cause an attacker to flee.
madengr 6y ago
That’s why cops carry guns, because pepper spray works so well.
briandear 6y ago
Have you ever been involved with pepper spray? It’s generally terrible for self defense. An attacker isn’t instantly incapacitated — they are still deadly until the full effects of the spray kick in. In the Army, I was trained to keep operating even amongst tear gas. It is horrible, but a violent assailant, especially multiple violent assailants aren’t going to immediately drop to the ground or run away. Being trained and proficient with a firearm is a far better strategy than hoping the attacker happens to be downwind and hoping they aren’t on meth or other drugs that make them seemingly impervious to pepper spray. Here is one example of why pepper spray is not ideal: https://mynbc15.com/news/local/mobile-woman-shot-after-pepper-spraying-shooting-suspect https://mynbc15.com/news/local/mobile-woman-shot-after-peppe... Had the lady shot the suspect, it’s unlikely that she would have been hurt.
kazinator 6y ago
Pepper spray is nothing; former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien puts pepper on his plate, he had us know. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-protest-met-pepper-spray-at-the-1997-apec-conference-1.5358298 https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-protest-met-pepper-spray-at...
minikites 6y ago
If this is true, then we should disarm every cop.

hpoe 6y ago

Just throwing out there violent people are not like wild amnimals, and in 94% of cases simply drawing a firearm is enough to cause an attacker to flee.

madengr 6y ago

That’s why cops carry guns, because pepper spray works so well.

briandear 6y ago

Have you ever been involved with pepper spray? It’s generally terrible for self defense. An attacker isn’t instantly incapacitated — they are still deadly until the full effects of the spray kick in. In the Army, I was trained to keep operating even amongst tear gas. It is horrible, but a violent assailant, especially multiple violent assailants aren’t going to immediately drop to the ground or run away. Being trained and proficient with a firearm is a far better strategy than hoping the attacker happens to be downwind and hoping they aren’t on meth or other drugs that make them seemingly impervious to pepper spray. Here is one example of why pepper spray is not ideal: https://mynbc15.com/news/local/mobile-woman-shot-after-pepper-spraying-shooting-suspect https://mynbc15.com/news/local/mobile-woman-shot-after-peppe... Had the lady shot the suspect, it’s unlikely that she would have been hurt.

kazinator 6y ago

Pepper spray is nothing; former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien puts pepper on his plate, he had us know. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-protest-met-pepper-spray-at-the-1997-apec-conference-1.5358298 https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-protest-met-pepper-spray-at...

minikites 6y ago

If this is true, then we should disarm every cop.