You never know when you are going to need self defense and when non lethal self defense weapons such as stun guns and mace or pepper sprays are going to come in useful.
You can be attacked at anytime for any reason: rape, theft, sheer badness, who knows, they all happen to men and women every day of every week.
Yes, men.
I can hear you think there, but men get mugged - of course they do, and also get raped.
That's a well known fact in this sick society so unless you want to travel with a concealed gun everywhere, you should carry some form of non lethal self defense weapon.
These include pepper sprays, mace, tazers and stun guns.
However, there are certain aspects of them that you should be aware of before purchasing them.
The problems with guns is that people buy them and when the time comes they are either afraid to use them because it could kill their assailant, or don't know how.
Some have even been known to fire a gun and injured themselves with the recoil.
You only need a slight hesitation to fire and your assailant will be upon you and if you have a gun he will have no mercy.
However, few will hesitate with a pepper spray or a stun gun, and both are very effective, which is why in some respects these are better for general self defense than a gun.
Guns have to be concealed, so there is no deterrent through the attacker knowing you have one.
That means that if you carry a gun you will have to be prepared to use it, which also means that you will have to be prepared to kill a human being.
While that is not a problem to some, it is to most decent citizens, man or woman, and so you are better without it, and better to be armed with something you can use without hesitation.
Hesitation can cost you your life in certain situations, so go for a stun gun or a pepper spray.
The spray is very effective only if the assailant is not wearing glasses, so the stun gun is likely to be your best first choice.
Keep one in your purse and the other in a coat pocket.
You will only have time to use the one, but if your purse is stolen the stun gun might be useful to hit the attacker as he or she tries to turn and run away with the purse.
Here are some tips on how to choose your non lethal self defense weapon, and how to use it for self defense.
First, decide which you prefer - a spray or a tazer or stun gun.
The latter is very effective if you can get the skin or through light clothing, and the former if the attacker is not wearing glasses.
Learn how to use it when you buy it: use a target at average height than practice at various distances until you understand the limitations of your choice of weapon.
In self defense, you will have to discharge your stun gun or pepper spray at just the right distance for maximum effect.
Any more and you might either miss, or your spray will be too spread out to be effective.
Any less and your spray will have to be more accurate, and your stun gun might not be effective since you won't be able to aim it properly to avoid heavy clothing.
One the distance is second nature to you, practice at various heights, simulating attackers of different sizes.
Practice until you are proficient and can pull out your weapon and use it any height and the correct distance without thought.
You won't have time to think, and in a real situation will have to react automatically - that is the skill that practice gives you.
Once have decided on one product stay with it.
Don't change because if you do you will have to go through all that practice one again.
Not all stun guns and pepper sprays are the same, and if you change your brand the distance and spread might be different.
It is important that you can defend yourself in the street since the streets of most major cities are becoming dangerous, especially at night.
However, the more people that fight back then the more the rapists and muggers will be discouraged and, who knows, the actions of people like you might just make our streets safer.
Nobody is going to continue if they know that they are liable to face somebody with a stun gun or mace spray.
Non lethal self defense weapons for personal self defense are becoming more popular because they work, and not only that but they give those that use them successfully a feeling of satisfaction.
They give the muggers a feeling of something else.