I want personal security.

Something that has baffled me, time and time again, is how easy it is for people to buy firearms to ‘protect’ themselves.
Inversely, it’s rare to see someone carrying a Taser, or a canister of pepper spray. This bothers me on many levels, because I do prefer a less violent way to deter any harmful events.

Firearms are problematic because they cause so much hesitation. In my eyes, people do not really want to kill someone if they do not have to, but with a firearm, one misfired round can spell the end of the life of someone who they don’t know. It means that they have killed someone.

Tasers, on the other hand are far less likely to kill someone, and allow for a form of defense that can give a person those crucial minutes between their attack, and hopefully subsequent apprehension of the criminal.

Here’s something to think about:
If you had a gun, and the criminal managed to get it out of your hands, you’re likely to end up being shot with your own weapon.
If you had a taser, and the criminal managed to get it out of your hands, you’re likely to end up being shot with your own weapon.
If you had pepper spray, and the criminal managed to get it out of your hands, you’re likely to end up being sprayed with it.

Of the three, two are generally survivable with no major side effects, and usually very little to no bleeding.
Here’s a hint: It’s not the gun.

What’s terrible about non-lethal security devices is, there are states that ban many types of them.
In Florida, it’s legal to carry devices that have a maximum range of sixteen feet (That’s just one hundred ninety-two inches, folks). Anything over this range is illegal. That’s fine with me. Sixteen feet of pepper spray and electricity ought to work.
In Hawaii, however… Tasers are apparently illegal, from what information I’ve been able to gather.

Maybe Hawaii has such a non-existent crime rate that this might work, but what about the other states that say no?
Why do we make it so easy to exercise the right to bear arms, but only certain arms of their choosing?
It’s pathetically easy to go get a 9mm pistol, and yet it’s harder to get a taser?

Why haven’t we challenged these rules?

[tags]Brick House Security, Tasers, Pepper Spray, Personal Security, Firearms, State Laws[/tags]