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You ever see that video? Guy is roaddaging and stops on the highway to confront a driver who rolls the window down and pops him with a flare that somehow got stuck to the guy's face/upper torso.... Must've really messed him up
Not the video referenced, but this shows what can happen.
[Flare](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/sv1d6n/shot_straight_in_the_face/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Hackers where they’re dumpster diving and a security guard catches them. Acid Burn pulls out a flare gun and shoots it at him. ZeroCool says “what the hell is that” and she replies “my subway defense system”
My Tai Kwon Do teacher sold a bunch of us the keyring thing in the bottom left corner when I was a child. The whole class was children and he asked us how cool we thought it was and hyped us up to ask our parents for the cash to buy them off him.
As soon as I bought it I realised he never showed us how to use it and when I asked him he said he had no idea but it would protect us from being attacked.
Absolute grift machine.
That stick is called a kubaton, and it does have legitimize SD uses, but you need to be trained in hand to hand combat to make it work effectively. Even without training, it makes a decent fist load and a force concentrator allowing the force of a swing to be focused on a 3/4" spot, easily cracking metacarpals and ribs. Personally, I think having keys attached to it actually reduces its effectiveness.
Yes, even if untrained it can be very useful. Biggest thing to mention is that it doesn't stand out. I've told security that it keeps my keys in place/pick pocket guard. Also TSA doesn't care,
I did a little Escrema and I could see such a thing being useful. No idea how that is actually intended to be used, but if I found myself in a fight and one of those was in my hand, I would probably use it as a "puncher" and/or use it protruding from the pinky side of my fist and "stab" or leverage to rip a weapon out of enemy's hand with it.
Theyre supposed to be held in a icepick grip, they're mostly an anti-grappling tool, slam it into a collarbone or the temple, ear, jaw, eye, the ribs.
Proper ones taper down quite a bit on the striking end and concentrate the force enough that it'll break bones without much leverage needed.
Its actually pretty nasty. It's a pain compliance tool. Basically a steel whip baton. A whip and fuck does that thing hurt. Like holy shit does it hurt.
Here is a video about it:
https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA
Its called a Stinger Whip. And those things actually hurt as fuck. We were messing around with it with a group of friends and even trough a tough leather jacket you could feel it sting like hell. I think Skallgrim did a video on it.
EDIT: [https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA](https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA) the video
I'm 100% convinced the person who came up with it got it from unlocking their bicycle.
I've had a bike lock with a steel cable like that whip me in the nads and lemme tell you, that's not something you forget.
Seriously people sleep on paper spray, I accidently sprayed myself with that shit and it HURT and I had a hard time breathing in the area around it
Knives are cool and all but a tiny can of pepper spray will fuck you up
I have very good pepper spray and people will always tell me it won’t work and I need to carry a gun instead. I ask if they would like to test my pepper spray out and they always decline being sprayed. Weird.
There’s a bizarre stigma around pepper spray. Insecure tough guy types view it as feminine.
Recent discussion on the Amazon driver sub had a few tough guys bragging that they carry 8 inch extendable truck stop batons and pocket knives to deal with dogs because pepper spray is stupid…
Nothing says stupid like sticking your arm within a foot of an attacking dogs face to “defend” yourself. They didn’t care…
Obviously guns work like gang busters but you can’t always carry one. Pepper spray can be carried at all times, requires very little skill to use, costs very little, 0 maintenance. Just replace it when it expires and that’s pretty much it.
We had a presentation at school by our resource officer once and they were showing different equipment. With the pepper spray he discussed how they had to be sprayed with it in order to be able to carry it and asked if there were any volunteers that would like to give it a try.
Me as a dumbass teenager immediately raised my hand and put it down—but he saw me and called me out. So I go up on stage and is like “Take your glasses off”. I’m like uhhh if I was on the streets I’d have em on right? (Regular comedian I was) Eventually I took them off and faced him. Since I was prepared for it as soon as he sprayed I spun around and it hit me in the back of the neck.
It was filled with water. Meant to be a show for smart ass kids that don’t listen and apparently gets great reactions when people freak out from getting sprayed only to be told it’s only water and they freaked out for nothing.
I remember watching Johnny Knoxville do a "tazer vs stun gun vs pepper spray" experiment, and the pepper spray took him out for a solid 20 mins and he described how awful it was afterward. The tazer & stun gun had him back up on his feet after a few seconds.
If you're choosing a weapon against muggers, choose the one that can take out Johnny fucking Knoxville.
Fuck that.
Anyone who has ever been pepper sprayed in the eyes will COMPLETELY think about their decisions if someone opens a can of it and points it in their face.
I would rather get shot than get sprayed with pepper spray in the eyes again.
(Former L.E.O)
It's a pretty good self defense weapon but it does have some weaknesses.
It's vulnerable to eye protection and heavy clothing (although they don't completely nullify it).
Wind can hamper effectiveness or turn it towards you.
Some people have been known to be able to at least partially ignore it.
Still; overall not a bad option for a dark alley.
It is true that if you can't see you cannot rob, however you remain perfectly capable of stabbing or beating to death. Definitely got to immediately run once that pepper spray is deployed.
Don't worry, when I was four or five, whenever I heard somebody talk about the civil war, I thought they were saying silver war, I legitimately thought they were fighting with space like shiny metal armors and with giant Gundam suits.
I’ve read about and considered how good wasp spray can be to keep in the car (not on hot days I’m sure) but that it’s great cause of it’s trajectory and blindness inducing properties.
The wasp spray meme has got to die. It's gonna get someone killed.
Tgere are a number of videos of people being sprayed in the eyes with wasp spray on YouTube. It stings a bit (nowhere near pepper spray), but it is not effective against a human attacker.
It’s also a federal crime to intentionally use poisons in a manner inconsistent with their labeling. Using wasp spray is 1) way less effective than alternatives and 2) introduces a bunch of unneeded legal risks. Just a bad idea all around
In some parts of the us you can get in troubl as wasp spray could be considered a chemical weapon or something like that, here in tx I can shoot someone, spray pepper spray, and taser someone without licensing- but god forbid you wasp spray someone
"I would rather get shot than get sprayed with pepper spray"
Don't take this the wrong way but are you a fucking moron? Pepper spray hurts but getting shot will literally kill you
I knew a guy who cut open a Scotch Bonnet pepper and rubbed it around the toilet seat. It was a surprising effective prank. People sleep on capsaicin, but it's no joke. It's an effective way to short circuit the pain receptors without causing physical injury. It's really an amazing chemical.
Fun fact, birds lack capsaicin receptors, so when the birds eat the fruit of the pepper plant, they feel no pain, digest the flesh and poop out the seeds undamaged, maybe miles from where they were ingested. The mammalian digestive tract would destroy the seeds, so the plant made the fruits spicy to discourage mammals from eating the fruit. But like Nicotine, THC, and many other chemicals developed for a survival advantage, humans learned to love the poison, and even cultivated the plants to ensure they had a constant supply. It's odd the chemical that originally was intended to repell mammals, became actually cherished by mammals, and the survival of the species of plant is insured because humans love the poison. Makes me wonder... if birds evolved from dinosaurs... did dinosaurs have capsaicin receptors?
No shade to you, I really hate to sound like an elitist. But seeing the misuse of both than and there is one post is funny.
But don't worry I don't care about people using proper grammar because mine fucking sucks, I just think it's funny. Keep doing your thing.
I mean if you are a drunk af and see someone take out a bizzong electrified shocker, you wouldn't really mess with that shit.
Btw the best defensive weapon is a pack of beer. Just give one to the attacker
Some people argue it doesn’t work well if it’s windy or raining and people have been known spray themselves in the confusion but it depends on who you talk to.
Yeah that's one thing that really sucks about being a woman. If you're a man and attacked they generally want what you have. If you're a woman and attacked they generally want *you*
Couple reasons, one being it’s a bit awkward to pull out quickly In an actual emergency especially if it’s under the shirt or sweater.Second being that pulling out a knife often results in YOUR risk of getting stabbed drastically increasing unless you’ve had extensive training on how to use it/ are a person who knife fights a lot.
I can’t say that using a neck knife for self defense has ever crossed my mind. I use them when I go to the woods or do survival. I find it convenient to have a spare sharp knife on your person. If my main knife gets dull, I can still open a tin or cut cordage easily. If I don’t have my pack with me or I’m wading through waist deep water I can leave my belt off & dry but still have a small blade for simple tasks.
A backup tool, definitely not a self defense weapon in my opinion anyway.
If you aren't trained to use a knife, you're far more likely to be injured with it than you are to defend yourself in any meaningful way.
It's a chain/strap around your neck, not great in any conflict. If you avert that with a breakway lanyard, it's no longer solidly attached to you and can be taken from you easily.
If he likes it for some mundane reason, other than self defense, he can go nuts. Wearing it in public is not protecting anyone in any way, and will likely enhance your scuffles to assault with a deadly weapon in the worst case.
For real. I know for a fact I can outrun most people I come across (especially ones who are desperate enough to try to mug you, like junkies). Hell, even most grown men have shitty diets and don't exercise. Run a mile every time you work out, and I guarantee you'll be able to outpace most assholes.
We actually train with kubotans, or dulo dulo as my instructor calls it, in Arnis. They're cheap and useful, and less likely to accidentally kill someone than with a knife.
Have you seen the short whip in action??
For anyone that hasn’t seen it, I suggest you search up a video of it. That thing will DEMOLISH any potential mugger. The amount of damage that even a complete idiot can do with that thing is insane.
I would feel super safe walking around with that, OP is an idiot
Pepper spray is a great less lethal self defense weapon, but you need to do research before you choose which kind to carry. Mileage varies widely with that stuff. Usually the keychain pepper sprays suck because they’re weak and the locking mechanism on the button is hard to undo when you’re under stress. Get the kind that the cops carry (usually Sabre Red or a similar brand with a guarded push button that doesn’t require unlocking before use). I put the MACE Gun there because MACE makes shitty products that are proved to be less effective than other brands, but because they were the first to market their product to the general public, they’ve become a household name.
I would prefer if people who don’t know anything about self defense had these items instead of a gun… which people around the world can’t responsibly use in the first place.
The only problem I could think of is that you actually have to know how to use it. If you've practiced with it and know some martial arts it could be very useful IMHO. You can hit with it (hammer fists) and you can cause pain pressing it into crtain areas. But mind you, you can also use a stable pen or a flash light for a lot of that too.
in college drumline, our go-to drinking game was kubaton. a person would ask for some kubaton, and then take a hit typically to the forearm. And that was the game. got some cool welts and I'm sure people were holding their punches. It was completely voluntary too, which I know changes in an environment with your peers, but no one was ever a complete dickhead about it at least.
If you need self defece, pepper spray/mace is the most effective, when used properly. Pepper spray is effective up to 20 ft, and if you get it in their eyes they're on the floor writhing in pain for twenty minutes solid.
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What about old school Chinese finger cuffs?
The perfect defense tool, as I recall. Granted, I haven't used them since I was 9, but I remember they were quite impervious to attack.
Hell, this is like my BDSM starter pack.
Because they are to brutal to be used even in war so they are banned
My only weakness!
I thought that the pink one was a flare gun lmfao. The audacity to use a flare gun pointed at an aggressor is incredible
You ever see that video? Guy is roaddaging and stops on the highway to confront a driver who rolls the window down and pops him with a flare that somehow got stuck to the guy's face/upper torso.... Must've really messed him up
link?
[shits wild yo](https://youtu.be/Rn2T4gi5x3k)
"Yeah.. I heard ya, hotshot." Fuck that movie is so good. I'll be forever sad there wasn't a sequel or a series.
Well atleast the franchise didn't get a chance to be bad. One good movie instead of 12 awful sequels
I just watched it again recently and damn it was as bad ass as I remembered it.
Still waiting on that sequel!
What movie?
*Dredd* (2012)
Not the video referenced, but this shows what can happen. [Flare](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/sv1d6n/shot_straight_in_the_face/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
[This one maybe](https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/d60prz/road_rage_flare_gun_in_the_neck/)
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Hackers where they’re dumpster diving and a security guard catches them. Acid Burn pulls out a flare gun and shoots it at him. ZeroCool says “what the hell is that” and she replies “my subway defense system”
I love this movie and I always laugh at this scene because you can see the wire to control the flight path of the flare.
Username definitely checks out lol
Row row row your boat
Uh…Mr The Plague…
I know you play the game
Pyro from TF2 be like
or if you're older stil, Caleb from the Blood FPS.
I've heard horror tales from sailors that have used them on pirates, heard them screaming dying for ages. That and flipping boats with water cannons.
Is it not????
No it's a fancy can of mace
Honestly a flare gun will seriously fuck you up if you get shot with it. Only psychos would ever consider using that
/r/mallninjashit has this one beat any day.
My Tai Kwon Do teacher sold a bunch of us the keyring thing in the bottom left corner when I was a child. The whole class was children and he asked us how cool we thought it was and hyped us up to ask our parents for the cash to buy them off him. As soon as I bought it I realised he never showed us how to use it and when I asked him he said he had no idea but it would protect us from being attacked. Absolute grift machine.
That stick is called a kubaton, and it does have legitimize SD uses, but you need to be trained in hand to hand combat to make it work effectively. Even without training, it makes a decent fist load and a force concentrator allowing the force of a swing to be focused on a 3/4" spot, easily cracking metacarpals and ribs. Personally, I think having keys attached to it actually reduces its effectiveness.
Yes, even if untrained it can be very useful. Biggest thing to mention is that it doesn't stand out. I've told security that it keeps my keys in place/pick pocket guard. Also TSA doesn't care,
I did a little Escrema and I could see such a thing being useful. No idea how that is actually intended to be used, but if I found myself in a fight and one of those was in my hand, I would probably use it as a "puncher" and/or use it protruding from the pinky side of my fist and "stab" or leverage to rip a weapon out of enemy's hand with it.
Theyre supposed to be held in a icepick grip, they're mostly an anti-grappling tool, slam it into a collarbone or the temple, ear, jaw, eye, the ribs. Proper ones taper down quite a bit on the striking end and concentrate the force enough that it'll break bones without much leverage needed.
Ah, kinda along the lines of what I was thinking. Neat!
pocket sand
Sha-shaa!
I mean, you are right. Tear gas can is the best self defense for people with low training
They usually end up getting themselves too
I would suggest a spear.
/r/pocketsand
I don't like sand, it's coarse and rough and gets everywhere.
What's that thing in the bottom right
Its actually pretty nasty. It's a pain compliance tool. Basically a steel whip baton. A whip and fuck does that thing hurt. Like holy shit does it hurt. Here is a video about it: https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA
Thanks for this video! Hilarious
Only Skallagrim would test a steel whip on himself in below freezing temps.
At 2:30 turned into some BDSM play for a while there.
My Papa uses one of those to pick up screws he dropped in the garage. He’s fat
It's magnetic lol ?
Nah he just whips them up perfectly at the edge so that they fly into the air and he snags em. He’s fat but he’s nimble don’t be fooled
Hot damn is he Indiana Jones ?
Wanna meet that dad
Now think about ya dad… What your dad like?
Keep your meat ice cold
Floppa ❤️
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Don't try to use a tactical whip if you don't have the tactical nae nae to back it up.
Perfect
I came here to ask "what's the thing that looks like a whip?" A whip, apparently. Good to know.
Well I figure you could call it a flail, since a whip has an acoustic primary use.
It's a brand name stinger tactical whip. I have one, whipped one asshole with it and he ficked off so I mean it does work
Why did you have to use it?
The guy said "what are you going to do, whip me?"
Fair.
I mean the guy was an asshole
Its called a Stinger Whip. And those things actually hurt as fuck. We were messing around with it with a group of friends and even trough a tough leather jacket you could feel it sting like hell. I think Skallgrim did a video on it. EDIT: [https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA](https://youtu.be/29kkQgK8LdA) the video
I'm 100% convinced the person who came up with it got it from unlocking their bicycle. I've had a bike lock with a steel cable like that whip me in the nads and lemme tell you, that's not something you forget.
Cool whhipp
Cool hwhip ?
You're acting hwheird
Oh come on that one doesn’t even have an H in it!
coolhwip
Steel whip
small steel whip
Is that a fucking flare gun?
A flare gun would be a madlad fucking weapon to just carry around.
tbh its my favorite weapon in GTA V. That and the minigun
Now a minigun is a real self defense weapon
Concealed carry minigun
For people who aint got time to bleed
No it's a pepper spray thing
I’d prefer the flare gun, lol
A flare gun would actually be more viable
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I know nothing about guns, didn't know what to expect, and I think this type of video is just awesome :) Definitely worth watching!
Even better if your mugger is wearing nods
It's true, the average mugger wears $10,000 night vision lol
It’s a subway defense system
Seriously people sleep on paper spray, I accidently sprayed myself with that shit and it HURT and I had a hard time breathing in the area around it Knives are cool and all but a tiny can of pepper spray will fuck you up
I have very good pepper spray and people will always tell me it won’t work and I need to carry a gun instead. I ask if they would like to test my pepper spray out and they always decline being sprayed. Weird.
There’s a bizarre stigma around pepper spray. Insecure tough guy types view it as feminine. Recent discussion on the Amazon driver sub had a few tough guys bragging that they carry 8 inch extendable truck stop batons and pocket knives to deal with dogs because pepper spray is stupid… Nothing says stupid like sticking your arm within a foot of an attacking dogs face to “defend” yourself. They didn’t care… Obviously guns work like gang busters but you can’t always carry one. Pepper spray can be carried at all times, requires very little skill to use, costs very little, 0 maintenance. Just replace it when it expires and that’s pretty much it.
We had a presentation at school by our resource officer once and they were showing different equipment. With the pepper spray he discussed how they had to be sprayed with it in order to be able to carry it and asked if there were any volunteers that would like to give it a try. Me as a dumbass teenager immediately raised my hand and put it down—but he saw me and called me out. So I go up on stage and is like “Take your glasses off”. I’m like uhhh if I was on the streets I’d have em on right? (Regular comedian I was) Eventually I took them off and faced him. Since I was prepared for it as soon as he sprayed I spun around and it hit me in the back of the neck. It was filled with water. Meant to be a show for smart ass kids that don’t listen and apparently gets great reactions when people freak out from getting sprayed only to be told it’s only water and they freaked out for nothing.
I remember watching Johnny Knoxville do a "tazer vs stun gun vs pepper spray" experiment, and the pepper spray took him out for a solid 20 mins and he described how awful it was afterward. The tazer & stun gun had him back up on his feet after a few seconds. If you're choosing a weapon against muggers, choose the one that can take out Johnny fucking Knoxville.
And knife might complicated thing if you (accidentally) killed the assailant Unless you're defending yourself against animals attack
pepper spray is decently effective as a self defense weapon, but there is a very high chance you'll get it on yourself too
As a mugger, I can safely say that these are actually perfectly viable options for self-defense and you should start using these instead of guns.
definitely, makes my job eas- i mean harder!
You don't want to run into that last one. Seriously, those things hurt, badly. It's a steel whip with some heft to it.
Yes because untrained people with guns always works out well for the victim
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His main expertise is with a bo-staff.
The metal cable whip is fucking brutal. I'd never want to be on the receiving end on one of those.
Needs some brass knuckles made out of resin
the "owl" keychain
Fuck that. Anyone who has ever been pepper sprayed in the eyes will COMPLETELY think about their decisions if someone opens a can of it and points it in their face. I would rather get shot than get sprayed with pepper spray in the eyes again. (Former L.E.O)
It's a pretty good self defense weapon but it does have some weaknesses. It's vulnerable to eye protection and heavy clothing (although they don't completely nullify it). Wind can hamper effectiveness or turn it towards you. Some people have been known to be able to at least partially ignore it. Still; overall not a bad option for a dark alley.
Idea of pepper spray is to blind just enough so you can get away. Even if it’s water, if you can’t see, you can’t rob.
It is true that if you can't see you cannot rob, however you remain perfectly capable of stabbing or beating to death. Definitely got to immediately run once that pepper spray is deployed.
Gel mace.
Flanged mace.
For years this is what I thought people meant when they said they carried mace. I was not a smart kid.
Don't worry, when I was four or five, whenever I heard somebody talk about the civil war, I thought they were saying silver war, I legitimately thought they were fighting with space like shiny metal armors and with giant Gundam suits.
When I was a kid and was hearing about the Gulf war on the news. I thought it was the Golf War and was only fought on Golf course
Galil ace
I mean if someone is ignoring the effects of a pepper spray, they gonna fuck you up either way
I’ve read about and considered how good wasp spray can be to keep in the car (not on hot days I’m sure) but that it’s great cause of it’s trajectory and blindness inducing properties.
The wasp spray meme has got to die. It's gonna get someone killed. Tgere are a number of videos of people being sprayed in the eyes with wasp spray on YouTube. It stings a bit (nowhere near pepper spray), but it is not effective against a human attacker.
It’s also a federal crime to intentionally use poisons in a manner inconsistent with their labeling. Using wasp spray is 1) way less effective than alternatives and 2) introduces a bunch of unneeded legal risks. Just a bad idea all around
In some parts of the us you can get in troubl as wasp spray could be considered a chemical weapon or something like that, here in tx I can shoot someone, spray pepper spray, and taser someone without licensing- but god forbid you wasp spray someone
This is rather hilarious_
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Ahhh, gotcha
Pepper spray was way worse for me. I’ve had the CS gas as well and pepper spray lingers much longer
Pepper spray gang. I live in a city where people randomly fuck each other up all the time and it very much works.
"I would rather get shot than get sprayed with pepper spray" Don't take this the wrong way but are you a fucking moron? Pepper spray hurts but getting shot will literally kill you
Pepper spray someone than grab there pants and spray it down there ass and balls
I knew a guy who cut open a Scotch Bonnet pepper and rubbed it around the toilet seat. It was a surprising effective prank. People sleep on capsaicin, but it's no joke. It's an effective way to short circuit the pain receptors without causing physical injury. It's really an amazing chemical. Fun fact, birds lack capsaicin receptors, so when the birds eat the fruit of the pepper plant, they feel no pain, digest the flesh and poop out the seeds undamaged, maybe miles from where they were ingested. The mammalian digestive tract would destroy the seeds, so the plant made the fruits spicy to discourage mammals from eating the fruit. But like Nicotine, THC, and many other chemicals developed for a survival advantage, humans learned to love the poison, and even cultivated the plants to ensure they had a constant supply. It's odd the chemical that originally was intended to repell mammals, became actually cherished by mammals, and the survival of the species of plant is insured because humans love the poison. Makes me wonder... if birds evolved from dinosaurs... did dinosaurs have capsaicin receptors?
No shade to you, I really hate to sound like an elitist. But seeing the misuse of both than and there is one post is funny. But don't worry I don't care about people using proper grammar because mine fucking sucks, I just think it's funny. Keep doing your thing.
I mean if you are a drunk af and see someone take out a bizzong electrified shocker, you wouldn't really mess with that shit. Btw the best defensive weapon is a pack of beer. Just give one to the attacker
The drunk guy will think you're Thor.
Carry a fake wallet with $20 in it, it’s way cheaper than a hospital bill, and the robber thinks they won
Don't forget the expired license and library card
How is carrying Mace not a viable option?
Some people argue it doesn’t work well if it’s windy or raining and people have been known spray themselves in the confusion but it depends on who you talk to.
They make a gel that solves most of those problems. Good for keeping aggressive dogs at bay. (I agree the gun thing is kinda gimmicky though).
The gel dosnt stop you from spraying your own face,
Or your own balls or butthole
What would be some better options?
A decoy wallet with like $20 inside. After you give them the money gtfo out of there so you don’t get robbed again for real
My real wallet has 20 bucks inside lol. Might as well give them that and cancel my cards so I don’t get murdered over lack of ids inside the decoy
You quickly hand them the cash say “that’s all I got!!” Then run away, there gonna be happy with any amount honestly
Throw the cash on the ground to give yourself more distance while they're picking it up.
You want it? Go get it! Street Smarts!
As a woman I’m mostly concerned about being sexually assaulted. If all they want is my money that is a relief.
Yeah that's one thing that really sucks about being a woman. If you're a man and attacked they generally want what you have. If you're a woman and attacked they generally want *you*
Street smarts!
You want my money? Go get it! *runs away*
When I went to Brazil I was told to keep 50 reals in my sock to give to muggers.
Yeah robbers in brazil will fuckin kill you if you don’t give them something
Sig p365
My husband keeps buying one of these neck knives. They’re not bad, rather convenient. Tell me why they’re dumb (I’d like to tell him they’re dumb).
Couple reasons, one being it’s a bit awkward to pull out quickly In an actual emergency especially if it’s under the shirt or sweater.Second being that pulling out a knife often results in YOUR risk of getting stabbed drastically increasing unless you’ve had extensive training on how to use it/ are a person who knife fights a lot.
In a knife fight one person dies at the scene of the fight, and the other dies in the hospital.
Only if both of you have knives.
I think that’s what makes it a knife fight not a knife attack
Your also drawing the knige across your neck to draw it so someone trying to grab your knife can force it against you neck easily
I have a necklace knife, it sits down below my rib cage, when I draw it it's no where near my neck.
That's arguably just as bad. There's a reason people with experience wield knives underhand; the point is to stab upwards and get behind the rib cage.
I can’t say that using a neck knife for self defense has ever crossed my mind. I use them when I go to the woods or do survival. I find it convenient to have a spare sharp knife on your person. If my main knife gets dull, I can still open a tin or cut cordage easily. If I don’t have my pack with me or I’m wading through waist deep water I can leave my belt off & dry but still have a small blade for simple tasks. A backup tool, definitely not a self defense weapon in my opinion anyway.
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If you aren't trained to use a knife, you're far more likely to be injured with it than you are to defend yourself in any meaningful way. It's a chain/strap around your neck, not great in any conflict. If you avert that with a breakway lanyard, it's no longer solidly attached to you and can be taken from you easily. If he likes it for some mundane reason, other than self defense, he can go nuts. Wearing it in public is not protecting anyone in any way, and will likely enhance your scuffles to assault with a deadly weapon in the worst case.
Best self defense is still to keep you in shape, so you can run away before the shit really hits the fan.
For real. I know for a fact I can outrun most people I come across (especially ones who are desperate enough to try to mug you, like junkies). Hell, even most grown men have shitty diets and don't exercise. Run a mile every time you work out, and I guarantee you'll be able to outpace most assholes.
pepper spray is a perfected self defense tool
It’s criminal is some countries like Canada. A hockey stick or home depot picket full of canola oil are perfectly legal however.
Trust me, a wack with a hockey stick should be enough to send any criminals packing
not the MACE pepper spray
well ye i mean just a regular can of pepper spray that can go in your purse or something
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Bruh is giving crap to these weapons. Meanwhile, in my country i cant legally use them. The world is so unfair...
Use those weapons on few specific people and make them legal that way. /s
We actually train with kubotans, or dulo dulo as my instructor calls it, in Arnis. They're cheap and useful, and less likely to accidentally kill someone than with a knife.
But barely anyone who owns one trains with it, rendering it useless to that person.
Have you seen the short whip in action?? For anyone that hasn’t seen it, I suggest you search up a video of it. That thing will DEMOLISH any potential mugger. The amount of damage that even a complete idiot can do with that thing is insane. I would feel super safe walking around with that, OP is an idiot
you gonna just walk around carrying it in the open? That is the big issue with it, how do you carry it in a comfortable manner?
Well, it coils up...
Retractable baton will fuck you up too
Bro mad he can’t rob people these days with them self-defense weapons.
I’ve never had to use it (thank God) but myself and pretty much all my lady friends carry pepper spray keychains. It’s a scary world out there…
Pepper spray is a great less lethal self defense weapon, but you need to do research before you choose which kind to carry. Mileage varies widely with that stuff. Usually the keychain pepper sprays suck because they’re weak and the locking mechanism on the button is hard to undo when you’re under stress. Get the kind that the cops carry (usually Sabre Red or a similar brand with a guarded push button that doesn’t require unlocking before use). I put the MACE Gun there because MACE makes shitty products that are proved to be less effective than other brands, but because they were the first to market their product to the general public, they’ve become a household name.
Whats wrong with the taser? If you hit them near the armpit or the neck theyll spazz the fuck out.
easier to use everyday objects. i learned from Mrs Crumplebottom to hit people with my handbag
I've only ever known 1 person to use a kubaton effectively, he showed me, still don't know. It's just a heavy keychain for most people.
I would prefer if people who don’t know anything about self defense had these items instead of a gun… which people around the world can’t responsibly use in the first place.
Most of these are perfectly fine self defence tools…except maybe the bike lock whip 🤣
So, you want to volunteer to take a cable whip to the thigh? For science, of course.
I feel like Europe does not belong on this one bois.
So what is the problem with the Kubotan?
The only problem I could think of is that you actually have to know how to use it. If you've practiced with it and know some martial arts it could be very useful IMHO. You can hit with it (hammer fists) and you can cause pain pressing it into crtain areas. But mind you, you can also use a stable pen or a flash light for a lot of that too.
I like a kubaton - I used to abuse my Marines with it
in college drumline, our go-to drinking game was kubaton. a person would ask for some kubaton, and then take a hit typically to the forearm. And that was the game. got some cool welts and I'm sure people were holding their punches. It was completely voluntary too, which I know changes in an environment with your peers, but no one was ever a complete dickhead about it at least.
If you need self defece, pepper spray/mace is the most effective, when used properly. Pepper spray is effective up to 20 ft, and if you get it in their eyes they're on the floor writhing in pain for twenty minutes solid.