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I also call bs on the police suggesting to the public ways to poison or permanently blind people. That's the same as having a police officer tell you, "Well, why don't you just break their knees with a baseball bat?"
"There are no finger prints under water."
Just call 911...
Doh!
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Wasp spray is fine, as long as you combine it with a lighter.
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Beat me to it...
Well, my wife used to be a good, gun hating Democrat.. I converted her to our faith. She used to carry pepper spray. Better than nothing I suppose, but she discovered pistols are way more empowering for women.
I had a thought about the wasp spray. We live in a very litigous society. It is probably not too much of a stretch that some criminal scum bag could get a slick lawyer and sue you for blinding him with it. I mean, if I'm in a situation where I'm going to be attacked, there are going to be legal issues if I respond with force. May as well eliminate the threat permanantly. A .45 will do that, wasp spray will not.
Using wasp spray will be viewed the same as using poison tipped arrows/bullets.
Battierisnare, kindly tell your friend that this trash email, like pretty much EVERY email passed around, is less than well thought out.
Last edited by Irving; 12-30-2009 at 16:06.
"There are no finger prints under water."
GSII, I really like the way you think man. +1 just for the heck of it!
Not all wasp sprays are the same. Some freeze, some are chemical agents. Some of those chemical agents are sub-derivatives of sarin; a nerve agent. Sooooo, you are shooting them in the face with something with a huge likelyhood of causing permanent blindness.
Second, you have to assume any less-than-lethal spray weapon is going to get in your face too. There is a reason they make cops get shot in the face with OC spray and take a ride on the lightning with a taser before they will allow them to carry it, especially any spraying agent. You have to deal with the overspray and fight through it.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think I would prefer to defend myself in a civil suit from a shooting over the wasp spray. The laws are more cut and dry, and intentionally blinding someone leaves a live witness that a jury can sit there and look at through a trial. I've just seen too many weird things in court to want a blind sympathetic plaintiff dirt bag suing me over wasp spray.
They make OC canisters the size of small fire extinguishers and they spray just as far as wasp spray. If your friend refuses to relinquish their adversion to firearms, this is what I would recommend.
Some people can't let go of their belief in humanity, society, higher powers, whatever... and see reality. They rely soley on the kindness of others as their only defense in life, as do we all to a certain extent. It works out most of the time, but you only have to be wrong once. Terminal victim attitude. I hope it works out for them, or they survive to learn the reality of the big ugly in the world. It's all you can do.
Sounds great. I'd keep a can by the bed if I had nothing else.
Luckily, I am fortunate enough to own a shotgun. Thanks and good luck.
P.S. I bet the sound of a shell being pumped into the chamber works
better than yelling "You better leave or I'll shoot... my can of pest
repellant." A plus is that my shotgun sound doesn't need to be
translated into another language.
wasp spray can be defeated by holding your arm up over your face. Bullets can not.
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