“Hero” might have scoffed at Stun Gun
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.