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Is Pepper Spray An Effective Self Defense Weapon?

9 Year Old Boy Fights off Kidnapper

“In Tulsa a 9 year old boy fought off a man who demanded that he get in his van. The man sprayed the boy in the face with pepper spray, still the boy managed to fight his attacker off and escape. So if a small boy can escape an adult armed with pepper spray there is a reasonable possibility that a person relying on pepper spray for self-defense will be disappointed in the results. So take this story as a word of warning on relying solely on pepper spray for self-defense.”

This story made me realize that people need to understand the proper use of pepper spray in self defense.

The story is intended to convince some people that pepper spray is not a good self defense tool.

This is misleading and wrong.

Let’s break this story down. We need to find out who was using the pepper spray and with what goal in mind.

  1. The attacker in this story used pepper spray not the person defending himself.
  2. The attacker used the pepper spray as a tool to subdue the boy.

This is all wrong!

How to Properly Use Pepper Spray or Mace

 

Pepper spray is effective as a self defense tool not as a submission tool. Here is a brief explanation of how pepper spray is supposed to be used.

Pepper spray is meant to be used as a distraction technique not for subduing an assailant.

That means you either:

  • Spray and run as fast as possible, or
  • You spray then follow with the nastiest barrage of strikes you can come up with and then run.

Why is it considered a distraction technique and not a destruction technique?

The answer is simple.

Pepper Spray does no permanent damage and only temporarily removes one of the 5 senses.

When you hose a person down with pepper spray only one thing is for sure, they will be distracted for at least a second or two.You must use that time to get away or eliminate the threat.

The moral of the story is that you should not expect pepper spray to end a threat.

Pepper spray is however one of the best and easiest to use self defense tools on the market. One that has saved many lives and will continue to save lives as long as people use it as it is intended (as a distraction).

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