I was recently attacked by our family dog (about 4.5ft long, 85-100lbs) and although I was able to get him off me and yell at him enough to make him submit, it’s made me paranoid about ever being in a situation where I would have to hurt him or get hurt by him and I want to know the best ways to subdue or pin a dog without injuring him. Is this the right place?
In my country, firearms are prohibited, gas pistols are the closest we can get. But they have the same effective range, they fire the same tear gas as a cheap pepper spray? I suppose the only advantage is:
Any other reasons to purchase a gas pistol?
I have been dealing with low confidence and low self esteem. I'm currently on a small weight loss journey from 200LBS to 164LBS. I would love to find something that I can add onto my weight loss journey but also boosts my confidence.
I also am looking for something easy and simple but effective enough to protect myself. I come from Las Vegas and unfortunately after being gang r*ped an ex of mine decided to tell one of the girls (dating one of the guys that gang r*ped me) about my experience. I feel like I now have to have my head on a swivel especially for times I travel back to Vegas without my husband. I'm worried about women and men fighting me over thing in public at bars or clubs or just out in the open... I want to be able to have ten toes down and hold myself with self defense IF anything were to happen. I'm not interested in fighting anyone at all. Truly purely only for self defense. Thank you for reading and I appreciate any tips and comments that are positive and that answer my questions.
This may sound stupid but I recently sprayed my pepper spray in the bathroom to test it out and it was incredibly strong. It had a burning sensation in the bathroom for a good 20 minutes and I was far away from where the spray hit. It had me coughing, nose feeling weird and my eyes slightly burning. This had me wondering if using pepper spray indirectly would work as defense indoors.
What I mean by this is if there were to be an intruder but I didn’t have a gun would it be possible to drench the hallway walls in pepper spray to delay or possibly distract the intruders from getting to the bedroom? I’m not sure if this is a dumb idea or not but I looked it up and didn’t see much of an answer. This wouldn’t be to completely get rid of intruders but it would be to delay the inevitable and give me and my family time to hide, maybe even long enough for a cop to show.
(Yes I do plan to get my gun license soon btw)
I'm severely allergic to pepper and fear that if I ever have to use it, I'll turn a "run away!" situation into a "run away, and my throat is closing!" situation. I do carry pepper gel because that'll disperse less and seems a little better, but it still scares me. I like the activation method though, I'd like to make something that'll work similarly but isn't made with peppers. Any ingredient suggestions? Like, maybe peppercorns? They're fine, it's just actual peppers (anything from chilli to bell, any of em are scary for me to have)
Recently I was play fighting with my boyfriend, and he grabbed my arm and I genuinely could not free myself. Of course we were only playing and he let go as soon as he saw I became nervous but it made me realise that if a man were to try and attack me, I would be unable to defend myself. My boyfriend isn’t a bodybuilder by any means, he has a slim build, doesn’t work out and works in an office. Whereas I do work out and focus on weight training pretty often. I like to lead a pretty independent lifestyle and I’m on my own a lot of the time out and about, genuinely what would I do if I were in a situation where I was attacked by a man? How could I defend myself?
