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Up Close & Personal w / a taser or pepper spray
Up Close and Personal with a taser or pepper spray
All this is part of the survival mentality, a way of thinking. To survive a personal attack, you must already have the mentality of survival. Now this is not a way of thinking abracadabra. It is a lifestyle. There is really no different than planning a road you drive at work or shopping. I hope you do not just drive blindly through a "bad" neighborhood without realizing that you may already be in deep trouble.
No of course not. If the bad neighborhood is between you and your destination, you plan a route around it. It not live in fear or staying at home because it is too dangerous to go out side. It has a survival Mindset. Do you lock your house when you leave? I hope so! Then you have a mentality of survival! It may just need to be improved a bit. Is it a stun gun seems irrelevant? Try it! If you continue to do so, despite the clumsy way, it seems at first sight, it will become as natural as wearing clothes! Really!
I remember when I became a certified law enforcement officer. I was a Park Ranger in Florida. I was much younger and I thought it was so "cool" to be issued a rifle and pistol belt to go with my uniform Green Park and pick-ups. I was around the 5,000-acre park in my desert 4WD Dodge Power Wagon, feeling like the sheriff Walking Tall. But if I am went to town, he felt extremely strange to carry weapons in public! After a certain time, wearing a uniform with a gun has become quite natural for me. Wearing a gun in plain clothes took a little getting used to. It took a little longer, but when I think of the consequences, such as seeing a another officer needing assistance or running into someone I had stopped, I found myself wearing it and I felt very normal.
Taking a taser or pepper spray with you and get used to having to be, I think, a daily routine normal. It should be as routine as getting dressed, shaving for men or putting on makeup for women. Get the idea that completion of the taser, especially ones that look like a cell phone, must become as natural as holding an umbrella over his head if it rains. It's true! You do not protect you!
Now that I have to protect yourself with a nonlethal weapon, allows talking and putting God forbid, be ready to use. Now I have a concealed weapons permit. I have several handguns, a revolver and a 38 snub nose S & W 40 cal semi-automatic. But neither firearms and in particular the S & W is just 40 calories not really easy to perform in street clothes.
Twenty-five years later, I would like to believe that I am well past the "conscious self" part. But I fear that someone will notice it or the Ardennes in my clothes and it would scare them by calling the police. During cooler weather, carrying a weapon handguns hidden becomes much easier than we tend to wear clothes that do a good job of concealing a handgun. But that's the problem!
More than one weapon is concealed the more it will be difficult to reach if it is ever needed! A weapon must be easily available for use in a violent encounter. You can not walk to your car after work was a 357 magnum in your hand. However, if a malicious was ambushed you and your weapon is in your bag or under your coat in a holster on your belt, you may as well not at all.
Exactly the same thing with a nonlethal weapon. You must be ready to use and defend yourself. If your weapon is in your glove compartment or in the bottom of your bag hand, it is almost useless. Yes, there are ladies who grants are designed to carry a weapon. And there are jackets and vests for men who provide excellent concealment a firearm and always ready for immediate use. We discuss these techniques and how to use them tomorrow.
A weapon like a stun gun that looks like a cell phone is so precious. You can wear the non-lethal weapon, without disturbing anyone! Nobody will call cops to report a mad woman walking mall with a cell phone in hand! I like the cell phone stun gun, but other are equally small and are equally effective.
There tasers this pack 100,000 volts of power. There are some very small stun gun that Pack 2700000 Volt! This is not a bad impression! 2.7 million volts! The volt shorter time you have to actually hold it against the wicked. The small, say, 100,000 volts to keep it on the wicked 3-5 seconds! It takes too long! 800,000 volts you stand on it for 2-3 seconds, the model of 2,700,000 volts said simply touch! Do not worry about the shock Do not come back on you, even if your body is affected.
A bad hits you from behind, the firearm is already in your hand,
ZAP! You blow in any part of the body is the closest and down, it goes in a pile, drooling like a baby with his eyes rolled his head back. Now this is where the planning, roll play, the practice is in full value. If you've never done before, it will be difficult to do so under the constraint of a violent encounter. Get with a partner and practice all at several occasions. NO, I do not want to stun your partner just use a little harmless object and slowly at first, go through the motions until you can do automatically and without pause for a second microphone to think. Practice injuring his neck at his side, his leg, his groin, what works for you.
This is life or death, survival. WOW, it's just like any other routine!
For example: I worked on my day off right "off" View information on the 5th floor of the courthouse. Yep, I was one of those guys who have to empty your pockets in small bowls before walking through the metal detector. A man came and put his affairs in the bowl and a large box on the table short. As I started to open the briefcase He turned and as he went through the metal detector the alarm goes off.
However, it was actually very common. Curls belt, pens, something that people do not think, off the alarms. I asked the man to save so I could check him. As he argued, he reached into his coat open and I could see the handle of a pistol in his hand. I reacted as I had always planned I would. I grabbed the hand that was for the gun, pulling the arm up, my right hand grabbing his shoulder and turns around, all in the same time, I was on the table between us. I kept the momentum going as I pushed against the wall and pulled the pistol from his belt. His weapon went into my back pocket with my right hand and I was wearing the handcuffs behind my gun came in my right hand handcuffed his right hand which was firmly in the grip of my left hand. The guy was handcuffed forcibly in the back, then I took her left hand and shot him in the back and finished handcuffed.
Wow, it was harder to write than to do it! Everything was done in few seconds. Another officer, a corrections officer, prison, sat in a chair at the end of the table, she did not move! The lawyer whom I knew very many cases too Many Court was right behind the guy with the gun. He turned white as a sheet. I looked down to see what was hitting my knee, it was my other knee! My knees collide! I shook that off and research the kind of make sure I had all his weapons. The suitcase contained $ 25,000 cash. The guy refused to talk.
He was booked into the jail charged with carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a weapon in a courthouse. I never knew why he had all that money. The point of my story is as follows:
I was ready. I been trained for this, I repeat such an incident in my mind again and again. The mechanical movement came naturally to me when I needed to survive! When other officers heard of the arrest, they made statements like: "Oh, would have shot him or I pulled my gun and ordered him to put his hands in the air "etc. Well, if the scenario had played in just one second micro differently, I responded differently, as I myself had learned to do. If his hand had been on the gun when I saw it, so my reaction would have been different. If I were not already so close to him, my reaction would have been different. You too can survive dangerous situations. Plan for them. Handy for dangerous situations. repeat in your mind or, better yet, repeat with a partner.
Be prepared. Get a survival mentality. Get a taser, they 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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