| p>There are many different types of self defense | | | | assailant. You can get someone from 10 feet away if |
| you should learn how to use if you are looking for | | | | you want to. |
| methods of personal protection. These different | | | | Stun guns also send a jolt of wattage throughout the |
| types of defense include pepper spray, stun guns, | | | | body but the stun guns only affect the nervous |
| and tasers. These are very effective methods of | | | | system. They are not considered to be as effective. |
| disabling a person so you can run away. | | | | Someone who is on heavy drugs or has a big build |
| Pepper spray is a self defense spray that is made of | | | | may not even feel the effects of a stun gun like |
| cayenne pepper. This spray is in an aerosol can and | | | | they would a taser. Stun guns work very well on |
| sprays in foams and even streams. This solution | | | | some people but they are not ideal. The reason is |
| burns so bad that it will cause temporary disabling | | | | that the stun guns provide a shock and can disable a |
| effects on a person for up to several hours. A | | | | person for just a few seconds. You have to be |
| person will be temporarily blinded, choke and gasp for | | | | touching the person physically with the stun gun for it |
| air, and their skin will even burn. All of these effects | | | | to work which can be dangerous to get that close to |
| are temporary and a person will not experience | | | | find that the stun gun doesn't work and not the |
| anything that is permanent to the person. You can | | | | attacker has you. |
| stand up to 15 feet away from an assailant and the | | | | There are many different types of self defense |
| spray will be effective. You do not have to be close | | | | personal protection items you might consider. The |
| up. This type of self defense mechanism works for | | | | most common are the stun guns, the pepper spray, |
| up to 30 minutes to several hours and gives you | | | | and the tasers. All of these three types of self |
| plenty of time to get away. | | | | defense do not provide any permanent damage to a |
| Tasers are 100% effective in disabling a person and | | | | body nor do they lead to death. They are extremely |
| best for police work and catching someone. A taser | | | | safe methods of personal protection that give you |
| works by sending jolts of electricity into a body and | | | | enough time to escape the attacker. The pepper |
| disables the nervous and the muscular system. Of | | | | spray is the cheapest method and the most |
| over 3,000 people tested with a taser, not one | | | | effective to use if you are looking for something |
| person was not disabled and able to function with | | | | that lasts a long time. A taser is the most effective |
| the jolts. A taser looks like a handgun. You hold it like | | | | and guaranteed to work but it only works when both |
| a handgun, and you shoot it like a handgun. When | | | | darts are in the body. |
| using a taser you don't have to be touching the | | | | |