Personal Protection, Self Defense Products, Stun Guns, Pepper Sprays

I’m not talking gangbangers here, but I could be.
There’s definitely a commune-type atmosphere
that surrounds all gangs. Too bad that that
communal feeling doesn’t allow for communal
application of self defense products.

How great would it be if every time someone used
a discounted, $5.00 pepper spray OR stun gun
that’s available from The Self Defense Guy, then everyone
in the gang got a dose of discipline? That really would be
Utopia, in my book.

No, what I’m talking about is a group of “nuns” who only
2 hours ago, came out in support of Abomicare, in
defiance of the USCCB, the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops. The Self Defense Guy has plenty of standing
to comment on what these “nuns” did, being a Catholic
himself and a regular mass attendee every Sunday.

What these “nuns” did is a perfect example of what
happens when people let emotion rule them. They
end up commies. To be sure, these “nuns” don’t think
of themselves that way, but I just spent 15 minutes
at their website, and trust me, they ARE commies.

They talk a good line, and they appear to be genuinely
sincere, but facts is facts. Their website is loaded with
terms like “social justice,” “the common good,” and
“a right to…food, housing, work, health care, freedom
of communication and expression.”

Those are all commie code words.

And don’t miss that last part about “rights.” It’s complete
and total commie crap, and shows how ill-educated
these “nuns” are, or else it shows how deeply they are
committed to complete and total government take over
of our country.

A “right” to food? A “right” to housing? A “right” to
communication?

The ONLY possible way to achieve those things is for
a huge government with massive bureaucracy that
holds a gun to the head of each productive citizen
and makes them an offer they don’t refuse —
pay for the “rights” of these privileged folks, or prepare
to meet your maker.

What’s especially galling to this Catholic is how these
“nuns” use Catholic teaching, the words of Catholic
teaching, but twist its meaning beyond its original
intent.

Just to give you 1 example, to keep this post as short
as possible, 1 Catholic teaching is called “subsidiarity,”
and it refers to the best way to organize any society,
any economy, whether it be a republic like the U.S. or
a monarchy or even a dictatorship — the Church
doesn’t choose sides when it comes to how a country
wants to organize itself.

What “subsidiarity” means is that services that people
need should be provided at the lowest possible level of
government. So for instance, garbage collection and
snow removal should not be provided at the national
level, or even the state level, but at the local level.

I’m sure you’ll agree with that reasoning. And the purpose
for the principle of subsidiarity is for services to be
available in such a way that they do the most good for
the most people.

Health care, by its very nature, makes it even more
important to be provided at the local level, because it
deals primarily, even exclusively, with individuals.
Anyone who thinks that making health care a province of
the national government is someone who is ignoring
Catholic teaching, even though on their website these
“nuns” claim to be applying it faithfully.

I could go on and on, but there’s really no need. I posted
earlier, on March 10, 2010, how abortions will be paid for
with government money, something that’s never been
done before and something that makes the U.S. into a
society of baby killers.

And baby-killing societies are not a new occurrence.
There were the worshipers of Molech in the Old Testament,
and there was Carthage. That North African society’s
practices were so appalling that Rome was determined
to burn it to the ground — and that was pre-Christian
Rome, too.  Even pagan Rome was reviled by the
infanticide in Carthage.

These “nuns” should know better.
These “nuns” are really “CINO’s”, Catholic IN NAME
ONLY, and they make perfect companions for all the
“Catholic” democrats and “Catholic” RINO’s who are
working hard to make us slaves.

Still, these “nuns” don’t deserve to be marked like
John Wayne said of Lee Marvin in “The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance,” they don’t “just need killin.” But I
can’t see the harm in treating them to a jolt of
pepper spray or a stun gun if one shows
up at your door, looking for support for what they believe in.

A commie is a commie is a commie, and if they truly are
“Catholic” and don’t truly deserve to be jolted that way,
then they’ll have no trouble forgiving you as you help
them to recover, but still send them on their way
without any financial contribution.    

Your average criminal likes to strike immediately, without
warning, without letting you know it’s coming, without
giving you time to prepare. He doesn’t involve himself
with building suspense.

That’s why you’ve got to prepare in advance if you want
to protect what is yours and who is yours. And there’s no
better person to help you do this than The Self Defense Guy,
because he’s got a highly trained, 3 person crew of tech
guys to help you set up and maintain any surveillance
equipment you get from him.

And he’s found a way to do all that and still give you
the lowest price on the net, and you can verify that
for yourself if you don’t believe him.

Yes, your average criminal does not give you the time
to prepare for his arrival, he’s not concerned with
building excitement and anticipation before you find
out the result. Your average criminal is NOT a mystery
writer.

A good mystery writer like Edgar Allan Poe knows
how to keep the reader in suspense, to slowly lead the
reader on a journey that can elevate the blood
pressure even while the reader is sitting down or
laying down.

21st century liberals in the U.S. are NOT like your
average criminal, they’re more like E.A. Poe. They’ve
taken their time, keeping us edgy and uptight and
lulling us into a kind of stuporous sleep that’s kept their
true motivation hidden from us.

What is their motivation? One word, really, “control.”
How do you control something? Ever think of that?

Controlling something is all about restricting it,
limiting its ability to adapt and grow.

The dems want to “control” health care, “control”
insurance companies, “control” the car industry,
“control” how wealth is generated and acquired in
the U.S.

Controlling means restricting. There’s no other way
to maintain control. And restricting means to kill.

Put a few radiator hose clamps around a sapling,
restricting it’s girth, and you will kill it.
You can put the clamps on very loosely at first, the
sapling won’t even notice it, but soon it will start chafing,
hurting, and eventually it will die.

Restricting means to kill, especially
in a business sense. Heard the expression, “If you’re
not growing, you’re dying?”

It’s a perfect example of Abomicare specifically and
Barry and the democrats desire for this country generally–
kill it, and start over with themselves in control, with
themselves in charge of managing a dead country.

It is impossible for restrictions to lead to growth,
to lead to plenty, to lead to anything positive.
Restrictions are a death sentence, and there’s just
no other way to put it.

Understand that I’m talking about restricting legitimate
freedom, I’m not talking about restrictions that are
necessary to maintain freedom. What is freedom?
What makes something my God-given right?

A person is free to act ONLY in ways that do NOT
require another individual to act against his own
will. That’s about as basic as it can be defined.
My right to free speech does not require anyone else
to listen to me.

Or, as Milton Friedman liked to put it, my right to
swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

Living in a free society is precisely the reason that
none of us has a “right” to health care. I cannot,
I have no God-given right to, force someone to pay
for health care on my behalf. I have no “right” to
force a doctor or a hospital to provide service to me
unless I arrange payment for it.

Why the American electorate has taken so long to
learn this lesson, if it even HAS learned this lesson,
is one of those things I used to think was a mystery.
But there’s no mystery about it. Much of the American
electorate is made up of people who are consciously
working toward the enslavement of their fellow
citizens.

Anyone who doubts this only has to look at the
ante-bellum South to find a perfect example of it.
And if that ain’t enough, he can look at the
American Revolution and the Tories who wanted to
run the bureaucracies of King George at the expense
of their fellow Americans.

BOTH of those groups, the British Tories and the
ante-bellum slaveholders, have been
reincarnated, and they’re back here working
feverishly to accomplish the goals they never
really gave up.

Only this time, they were smarter. This time they
took over control of public education and patiently
bided their time until they could populate this
country with millions of collaborators who could be
controlled–there’s that word again–and convinced
to betray their own citizens, their own families even.

Used to be when public education got started, it was
a good thing. Students showed up ready to learn and
ready to conduct themselves civilly, with respect for
the teachers and for the other students. Teachers used
to show up to teach subjects worth learning, namely,
the 3 r’s.

Some teachers still do, but many only show up to get
paid. It’s been like this for a long time, and it’s going to
take awhile to correct.

We’ve got a long road ahead of us before we can right
this ship of state. The next step will be in November,
when we can sink this ship of fools, this ship of pirates,
that’s intentionally steering us toward the maelstrom.

Imagine breaking into someone’s house, and the
owner is there at the ready. As soon as you’re
inside, you get a squirt of the hottest pepper spray on the market, and it slams your eyes
shut so quick that you don’t even notice the owner as
he puts a half a million volts stun baton to your neck that makes your knees buckle.

You want to get away, but you can’t move. You try to move, but
you’re more or less reduced to a quivering mass of uncoordinated
arms and legs, moving every which way but the right way.
You want to try and wipe the burn from your eyes, but the stun
baton has ruined your hand/eye coordination.

Anyone who was watching you would
think you’re just checking yourself for blindness, the way you’ve
seen others wave their hands in front of a blind man.

Your hands move right past your eyes, without being able to
locate them. This is not the best day of your life.

It won’t be that bad for the democrats if they pass this
health care bill, and it won’t be that bad for them if they
don’t pass this health care bill. But either way, it’s going
to be pretty darn close.

Right now the democrats are in the almost-never-seen-
before-position of having nowhere to look for safety,
nowhere to look for solace, no matter what they do. And
frankly, I’ve got a big Rhett Butler for them —I don’t
give a damn. They saddled this horse, and I’m just going
to sit back and watch them try to ride it.

I’ve been following politics since 1976. I was 20 then, and
it was the first time I had ever had a chance to vote for
president. I’ve never missed a vote, and don’t think I
ever will. But I have NEVER, EVER seen a political party
or a single politician manage to make everyone —
supporters and opponents alike — line up against
them.

If health care gets passed, more than half the country will
be furious with the democrats, and come November the
dems are most likely sure to lose control of at least one of
the Houses.

If health care doesn’t get passed, the democrat base will
be furious with the leadership, the base will stay home
for the November elections, and the result will be that the
dems are most likely sure to lose control of at least one
of the Houses.

Heads, republicans win, tails, democrats lose.

What’s most amazing to me is that just 4 years ago, I was
marveling at how Nancy Pelosi managed to orchestrate
such a huge democrat victory to retake control of the
House of Reps. I don’t like the woman, not one little bit, but
she did make mincemeat of the republicans.

And she had been hacking away at them for 2 solid years,
convincing a half-asleep electorate that the dems and
the messiah would kiss their booboo’s and make it
all better. I really don’t like that woman, not one
little bit, but I was thinking that she was
certainly a political genius.

This begs the question, was this not the most right I’ve ever
been, or was the messiah an even worse choice than we
could have imagined?

I’m willing to take one for the team on this issue, but I
don’t think I could get away with it. It looks like it’s all
over but the shouting. Barack Hussein Obama, hmmm,
hmmm, hmmm, is a worse president than even Jimmy
Carter was, and that presents the messiah with a rather
troubling problem for himself.

At least Jimmy could swing a hammer and use that skill
to manipulate Habitat for Humanity to partially rebuild
his doofus-like personality. But what’s Barry gonna do?

12 to 5 says he’ll try to set up a new traveling basketball
team, maybe call themselves The Chicago 7 — Barry
and 6 others play an all-star, but only 5 at a time wheelchair
team, 7 on 5, and still lose at the buzzer.

We be lovin’ Barry again in no time at all.   

The Self Defense Guy

What would it be like if you could sneak one of
my phone/room recorders into the discussion room
where The Supremes do their work? Getting 576 hours worth of
give and take, yes and no, should we or shouldn’t we?

When they get the abortion question before them once again,
that would be a good listen.

If Abomicare passes, eventually the whole matter will be taken
to The Supremes, giving them one more chance to revisit what
a former court did way back in 1973. Amember 1973? The Arab
Oil Embargo, streaking, Secretariat?

Not long after they left Detroit, The Supremes jammed abortion
down our throats — and they all looked like such nice
girls who could sing up a storm, too. After all these years, are
they ready to reconsider and reverse themselves?

I know that no one else sees that as a possibility, but stranger
things have happened. Right now the conservatives enjoy a
5-4 advantage, but they also have 1 other advantage —
they’re motivated to repay the insult Obama recently threw
at them during his State of the Union address in January.

It always helps you do what is right when you can also
return a volley at your opponent. Not that something
like that would be admitted to, but folks is folks, Supremes
or not. Any chinks in the conservative majority that may
have been there afore the State of the Union address
have most likely been shored up by now.

Especially when you look at the recent Supreme’s decision
regarding campaign finance law. Chief Supreme John
Roberts noted that it’s NOT the court’s
duty to uphold all previous rulings, what they call
precedent. If we did that, said Roberts, then we would
still have slavery in this country.

So who knows? Could the Supremes be ready to
reverse Roe v. Wade, and send a big “take that”
in Obama’s direction?

The libs, of course, would say that abortion is not
even a part of Abomicare — and technically,
they’d be right. I’m sure that at least 1 lib has read
all 225,000 pages — hyperbole, not a typo —
and can state for a fact that the word abortion isn’t
there.

But it IS there, even though it isn’t. Most medical
procedures are not listed in any Abomicare bills.
Instead, the language refers to such nebulous phrases
like medical procedures, doctor services, examinations,
words like that.

Appendectomies, gall bladder surgeries, orthopedic
examinations — these aren’t in
the legislation either, not specifically. They don’t need
to be, and neither does abortion.

But when federal law says words like “covered persons are
entitled to have all available medical procedures that their
doctor recommends,” or any other words to that effect,
then abortion is covered, too. Words like that
are what will end up passing the buck to the Supremes,
where the libs have had the advantage for the last 40
years, only now that advantage has switched to the
conservatives.

Plus, there’s 1 other consideration, and that is that no current
Supreme was involved with Roe v. Wade, so that decision
can be reversed without embarrassing any current member.
Throughout our history, that factor has always been very
important in how the court rules.

But would the phone/room recorder capture all
576 hours worth of discussion? You bet. It doesn’t record
when there is nothing to record. It shuts off, and waits until
later, tomorrow, 3 days if it’s a long weekend.

In the best case scenario, Abomicare will be dead
by Easter. But if it isn’t, maybe we’ll see
The Supremes riding to the rescue. Maybe they’ll
use the abortion issue to throw out the whole
mess.

It could happen.                 

The Self Defense Guy

I heard an interview with Robert Duvall who said that his favorite role was as
Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Tommy Lee Jones played Woodrow Call, his
partner. Just before taking Ricky Schroeder on his first south-of-the-border escapade
to steal horses from another horse thief, Jones gives Schroeder a six-shooter and says,
“Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.”

Fast forward 120 years and come into the real world, too, and you just won’t find
a better reason to carry some pepper spray every time you leave the house. It’s the
logical thing to do, but it isn’t any fun to think about it. So DON’T THINK ABOUT IT, just
do it. Pretend you’re a liberal, and close your mind to all other possibilities.

In this one particular case, acting like a liberal may be the very best course of action.
Liberals have learned how to make themselves impervious to anything that threatens to
keep them from achieving their goal. Here’s an example.

For whatever reason, liberals seem to be immune to conservative arguments about
the fallacy, the sheer illogic that is the essence of liberalism. Sometimes it seems to me
that the problem is that liberals simply will not listen to anything a conservative says, and
so how can one reply sensibly to something they haven’t heard in the first place?

So conservatives take to the blogs to try to make their point. Some writers are good at
it, some so-so, and then some just knock you over with the power of their simplicity. If
only I could have written something that good, I say to myself whenever I find a good
example.

Here’s something that, if a liberal would take 30 seconds to read it, might do them a world
of good, might go a long way to opening their mind:

“The redwood deck is beloved, not the falling coast redwood tree; kitchen granite counters are de rigueur, not the blasting at the top of the granite mountain; the Prius is a badge of honor, not the chemical plant that makes its batteries; we now like stainless steel frigs, but hate steel’s coke, and iron ore, and electricity lines; arugula is tasty, not the canal that brings water 400 miles to irrigate it; I support teacher unions and ***-studies courses in the public schools, but not with my Ivy-League bound children.”

What’s great about this paragraph is that it should make a lib stop and think, if only for a
second or 2, just where all their “sacred,” “green” products come from. Where DOES arugula come from? How DOES a battery power a Prius? Here’s the link for the rest of that post, from Victor Davis Hanson, which will open in a new window.

Of course the truth is that there are many, many libs who just don’t care anymore about
the whys and the wherefores. All those libs want is to stop the United States dead in its
tracks. They are so intent on accomplishing this that they have never even stopped to
consider what the impact of their own success would have on their own lives. They have
come to believe that somehow they have a protective cocoon around themselves that will
isolate them, prevent them, from experiencing the anguish and hardship that the country
will go through if the economy gets destroyed.

They never, ever see themselves as the accomplices in a crime who later, once their own
contributions are no longer needed, get eliminated by the higher-ups. No, not them. They see
themselves as being rewarded for their efforts. For all the lies and hatred and venom they
spewed on behalf of the cause, they just KNOW that they will receive their just rewards. And they
will, too.

It doesn’t ever dawn on them that for the culture of death they’ve worked all their lives
for, the ultimate reward that will be bestowed on them is death itself. It’s a perfectly logical
ending for them, it’s just that they can’t see that it’s coming. They’ve never stopped to
think about what they’re doing, what their goal is, and they will truly be surprised by it
when it happens, but it will be too late.

For proof of this, one need only check the history books and research what happened to
all the journalists, all the supporters, of every left-wing revolution that has occurred since
1900. Not that that proof will penetrate a liberal’s closed mind, but it IS our Christian
duty to at least try to save them.

I know that the odds are that not one single liberal will learn anything from what’s
posted here, but you can. You can be ready to defend yourself when the situation calls
for it.

And remember this above all else. The police only show up AFTER you’ve been
assaulted. Up to that point, you’re on your own.     

The Self Defense Guy

What would be, who would be, a bigger abuser?
An individual nanny, or an omniscient nanny state?

It’s a trick question, because you won’t be
able to do much about the nanny state that the dems
want to establish as our overseer. But your own nanny?
Her you can keep tabs on with one of my
RENTABLE
hidden cameras that do their own recording.

They set up fast, just plug and play, and if you need
any technical help, I’ve got a staff of 3 tech geeks
standing by Monday-Friday, 9 to 5 eastern time.

Now, back to that nanny state on the horizon.

What’s been slightly overlooked in the political
debate over how long we should let democrats live
if they pass Abomicare is 1 sobering fact: it takes
a 2/3 majority of BOTH HOUSES of Congress to override
a presidential veto.

That’s what the democrat leadership is counting on,
that’s why they’re willing to sacrifice their political
careers, temporarily, and cram Abomicare down our
throats.

As it stands now, if Abomicare passes, then we may see
a huge landslide victory for the Republicans come
November. Even so, that won’t be enough to reverse
course. The Republicans are so far behind the dems
right now, as far as how many seats they control, that
even a landslide victory in November is unlikely to
leave them with a 2/3 majority control of BOTH HOUSES
of Congress.

So when the Republicans pass a bill to repeal Abomicare,
IF THEY PASS THAT BILL–remember, with RINO’s like
McCain and Snowe and Collins and Graham, there’s no
guarantee that they will–Jimmy Carter the 2nd WILL
veto it, and you CAN guarantee that. And then
the bill will die, without the Republicans being able to
get the 2/3 they need from each house.

That means we’re up to the 2012 elections, and because
the Abomicare provisions were never scheduled to begin
until another 2 years after that, the economy will have
improved, there’ll be NO STORIES about how bad health
care has become, the dems will holler that the
Republicans were all wrong about Abomicare, and the old,
thrown-out trash that is the old dems will find a way
to steal themselves into office once again.

And America will be no more, replaced by an Amerika that is
“of the dems, by the dems and for the dems.”

So they’re willing to lose a finger to save the rest
of their bodies.

One thing you can say about the dems, though, is that
they’re willing to work toward a goal. Their goal is to
make you a slave, and they’re willing to lose sleep over
it, they’re willing to even lose an election or 2 over it,
so long as they eventually reach their goal.

Same goes for someone who’s intent on harming you
personally. He’ll lose sleep while he cases your home
or business, learning your habits, waiting until the
best time to strike at you. That’s his goal, and you’d
better be sure that his goal to hurt you isn’t
stronger than your goal to defend yourself and anyone
else who depends on you.    

The Self Defense Guy

You could say that StunMaster stun guns run on direct
current, directly from the battery. It’s not quite the same
thing as d.c. electricity, but it’s close enough, and it lets
me use that somewhat musical subject line.

When it’s only mooks and gangbangers who are scheming against
us, we can fall back on weapons like StunMaster Stun Guns. But when
it’s a large minority who’s trying to take over the whole country, it’s
going to take something a lot more serious.

That’s what I really wanted to write about, that
most countries don’t explode, they IMPLODE.

My online dickshionary defines implode, in the sense that I’m
using it here, as “economic or political collapse.” The example
they give for using it in a sentence is, “Can any amount of aid
save the republics from imploding?”

Don’t think their example would pass muster in my 6th grade
English class, taught by Sister St. John Mary–using “imploding”
rather than “implode”–but maybe that’s progress, who knows.

The point I’m getting to is one of those universal laws
of history, that most countries are brought down by their own
people, rather than by outsiders.

Even those countries which history says were conquered, you
can usually trace the beginnings of their conquest back to
treacherous, destructive actions taken by their own citizens. For
example, Germany and Japan were conquered from the outside,
a result of World War 2, but the German Republic had been taken
over and set on its path to destruction by Hitler and his Nazis.

The Allies forced Japan to surrender, true, but were it not for
the greed for money and power that drove it’s military machine,
there may never have been a Pacific theater in WW2.

After that war, China was lost to the commies, NOT the ones from
the Soviet Union, but from inside China herself, from China’s own
citizens.

Before WW2, Russia had been lost to the commies, NOT from an
attack from outside, but from inside Russia herself, from Russia’s
own citizens.

Same goes for Cuba, South Africa, North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq,
Iran and pretty much any other country you want to name. Any country
that finds itself suffering under tyranny, by whatever name it calls
itself, can look to its own people as the source of that tyranny.

Rome started as a republic and ended up a dictatorship before it
was no more.

Hard-working people who wouldn’t pay attention to what was
happening to their own country, when it would have been easier
for them to stop it, then find themselves the victims of the sinister
desires of people they used to think of as friends and comrades.

Their myopia results in slavery, death and destruction for the vast
majority of people.

But the minority, the ones who led the revolution with their own
greedy and selfish interests in mind? They eat caviar while their
own citizens eat dirt.

This is, sadly, the way of the world. It’s always been this way, and
it most likely always will be this way. We know that it doesn’t HAVE
to be so, because 247 years ago, a group of courageous men who
only wanted everyone to have a chance for success, based on his
own efforts, began the effort to transform the land where they lived.

With the Proclamation of 1763, the British crown sought to limit the
freedom of the colonists to expand westward. That was the spark
that made the revolution, that made the colonists begin their move
toward freedom, toward having their own country.

Those first Americans knew that if they didn’t do something about it,
then they would be the servants of other citizens currently living
among them, other citizens who appeared to be friendly, who appeared
to have society’s best interest at heart, but who secretly schemed
and plotted for ways to enrich themselves with ill-gotten gains.

It’s always been that way, and it always will be that way. The world
is not fair, the world is after what you have, and if you refuse to
recognize that and defend what you have, your troubles will soon
be over. Soon you’ll have nothing left to defend.

That’s what a pessimist would say.

Fortunately, not only can we
choose to be optimists, we can look to our own past to find positive
proof that what is right can win the day. Just remember that the
longer this struggle gets put off, the harder it’s going to be.

There’s an election coming up in November, a way for us to use a
completely non-violent method to right this ship. If we do it then, we can
avoid a repeat of what our founders had to endure. They did not have
a non-violent option open to them. We do.

The next best thing to non-violent is non-lethal. That’s what you can
use when you run into ordinary street crime. A stun gun or pepper spray
should always be the weapon of choice, when you have the choice to
NOT kill someone. If ever you’re confronted with that choice, you’ll be
glad when you have a non-lethal option.     

Til next time, keep your eyes and ears open, be aware and
be safe,

The Self Defense Guy

“To Protect and To Serve.” I believe that’s the motto of most police forces in the country. I can tell by all the patrol cars that they’ve got the “serve” part down ok, but what about that little “protect” part?

In Orlando, Fl, a 2 time killer was let off with not much more than a scolding, and it was so effective that the killer waited a few months before killing again.

To be fair, I know that this is NOT the police’s fault, but rather, like the libs always say, it’s society’s fault, and in this case, the libs are absolutely right. It IS society’s fault that this murderer killed again.

Here in the U.S., society has accepted the lib idea, the PETA idea, that animals have the same rights as people. So by extension, since we don’t execute murderers anymore, murderers who are human, then we can’t put down a killer whale after he’s murdered once, or even twice.

No, we can’t put him down, we must give him the chance to learn from his past infractions, we must give him a chance to find another way to kill again.

This is what society has evolved into, and a trainer at the Orlando, FL, Sea World, is dead because of it. THIS murder you CAN lay at society’s feet.

And you’d better wise up and learn from this, that society is doing everything it can to make it safer for murderers than it is for you, safer for street gangs than it is for an honest, law-abiding citizen like yourself.

What would you do if you found yourself accosted by someone intent on taking what you have, whether that be your wallet, your watch or your life?

If you had the power of my knuckle blaster stun gun, you could stop the attack NO MATTER who it was from–even if it came from a killer whale.

My stun guns work even when you’re standing in water, even if it’s pouring down rain. They’ll stop the attacker, but not back up on you. And the best thing is, when you order 1 at my regular, everyday low price, you get a chance to get a 2nd ONE for only $5.00 more. NO ONE on the net offers you a deal as good as that, NO ONE but The Self Defense Guy, that is.

ANY STUN GUN at my site comes with the same offer, THE 2nd ONE can be yours for only $5.00 more. Got any birthdays coming up for someone who’s hard to buy for?     

Saturday morning with my coffee and compooooter
used to be a good time, until our local Wild Oats
Grocery was bought out by a national chain. One
of their “improvements” was to discontinue Green
Mountain Brand Columbian Whole Coffee Beans, and
me and the missus ain’t had a decent cup a joe
since. It’s gettin so I don’t even want to get out
of bed in the am.

But this morning’s Arizona Republic, Phoenix’s
morning rag, had a story that brought back a good
memory for me, about Nathan, a 14 year old boy who
brought a pocketknife to school, amembered he
had it in his backpack, then turned it in to his
teacher. Poor kid got 5 days suspension for that.

Turns out the lowly pocketknife is now considered
a weapon, rather than an indispensable
accoutrement of manhood. I amember the first time I ever
saw one. Must have been about 8 or so. Had my
own when I was about Nathan’s age.

It was my granddad’s, and we were out in the
woods next to our home, scoping out for wild fruit
trees. We grew up in eastern Ohio, in one of the
first houses in a growing residential area. It
was a kid’s paradise, trees everywhere, and one or
two vacant areas we could play football or
baseball.

My Nonno and me, nonno is Italian for granddad,
came upon an apple tree that he knew was there.
We were just there to see if it was time to come
pick them or not. They were almost ripe, but not
quite.

That area had about a dozen or so wild apple
trees and wild pear trees, planted long ago courtesy
of the birds. Peaches also grew well there, but
there were no wild peach trees nor any birds big
enough to shoot out a peach pit, thank God.

Nonno picked an apple that looked good, took out
his pocketknife, opened it up, quartered the
apple, and gave me a piece. I watched him work with
that knife very matter of factly, nothing special
about it, just a man and his knife.

Next Saturday we’ll come and get some, he said,
in his broken English. Course he meant with most of
my 5 brothers and 4 sisters, too. We’d all bring back
plenty of apples.

We finished the apple, he wiped his knife, closed
it, and we headed for a pear tree. No need to
check any other apple trees, they would be more or
less like this one.

This all happened more than 40 years ago, and my
Nonno’s been gone for about 35 years or so. I
amember him and his pocketknife and the home he
helped build, and I see them now with an older man’s
eyes.

My Nonno never learned to read or write, but he
acquired for himself and his family a home with a
huge garden that provided high quality
vegetables, peach trees in the back yard, and a free supply
of apples, pears, and blackberries. Not bad for
growing up poor in Italy and immigrating,
legally, to the US in his early 20’s.

He was a regular attendee at Sunday Mass and all
the Holy Days of Obligation, and he didn’t carry
no weapon, he carried a pocketknife, a tool. I’m
sure he would be saddened to learn of Nathan and
the consequences of his pocketknife.

One thing my Nonno was was interested in new things.
How do I know this? He used to ask my mother to make
him pancakes every once in awhile. The tv ads for Aunt
Jemima Pancakes really got to him, and his wife, my
Nonna, wouldn’t make them for him. She claimed she
couldn’t make this American kind of food.

But my Nonno wanted some, and my Mom would make
them for him.

I’m certain that if he were with us today, he’d be totin not
just his pocket knife, but a stun gun
and probably some pepper spray.

I still carry a pocketknife, and I do it mainly
cause my Nonno did. It’s a tool, it ain’t no
weapon. For weapons, I carry a stun gun and some
pepper spray. You should too.     

If you ever want or need to have your crimes
forgiven and considered no big deal, all you gotta do
is die for your country. In that case, no
matter what you did in the past, you’re considered a
great American. Your crimes are treated as mere
character anomalies and talked about in a
humorous, even admiring tone.

Just take Jim for example. Jim was the biggest,
most notorious, fraudulent landowner of his time.
While he wasn’t the only one doing it, no one
did it on a grander scale. Jim “owned” 45,000
acres.

He “sold” some, collected rents on others, and he
used some as collateral for all kinds of
nefarious activities. But Jim was no dummy. He was
smart enough to destroy the evidence any time the
police got too close. After all, it’d be no trouble
to just get some new deeds printed up.

One writer described Jim’s activities as land
fraud “on an almost industrial scale.”

Jim defrauded and ruined many unsuspecting men,
but today he’s in the pantheon of Great American
Heroes. That’s what happens to you if your life
ends in a battle for your country. That’s what
happened when Jim Bowie died at the Alamo.

Jim’s also known as the designer of the Bowie
knife. What made his knife special was that it was
the first knife to be an effective tool for both
hunting/camping and for use as a weapon.

Before Jim’s design, a man needed 2 knives. Now
he could get buy with only 1. Jim’s design was
so good that it’s still in use today.

Using a knife for a weapon has its drawbacks,
however. Besides the knife, you’ve also got to have
some skill, and you also need a lot of nerve.
That’s why in today’s world, a knife is better
than having nothing, but it’s not the best self
defense tool for you to carry.

You’re much better off if you carry a stun gun and some pepper spray.

The pepper spray can stop your attacker while
he’s still some distance away from you and before he
can get his hands on you. One shot of the
pepper spray anywhere on his face, and he’s toast.
He’ll either go into a coughing fit for half an
hour, or he’ll be blinded for half an hour. And you
don’t really care which, right?

And don’t believe any movie that suggests that
you can develop an immunity to pepper spray.
That’s simply not true at all, not true in the
smallest degree. Pepper spray is 100% effective, 100%
of the time.

A stun gun is great to have because as long as
the batteries have some juice, you can defend
yourself from more than one attacker at the same time.
You can stun the first guy and use him as a
shield while you’re holding the gun to his body and
lighting him up, keeping the other attackers away
from you for 2 or 3 seconds until he falls to
the ground. When he’s on the ground, he’ll be
totally incapacitated for 15 to 20 minutes, maybe
longer.

When you’re ready for the next guy, odds are they
won’t want any part of you after seeing what you
did to their friend. Amember, most of the time,
your attackers are depending on bluff and
bravado, and as soon as they see you’re ready to kick
their heinies, they’ll turn and run and you won’t
be able to catch them. What you do in that case
is simply and calmly walk away.

If Jim were around today he might think that
pepper spray and stun guns take all the fun out of
self defense. Just you amember that self
defense–well, there just ain’t nothing fun about it.
It’s a serious matter and a high stress situation.
And the only way to come out on top is to be
ready aforehand. Get what you need, and get it NOW.