Security Products:
Personal Safety Devices
& Weapons

Security Products CANNOT be guaranteed to prevent crimes - but will likely serve you well if used with the safety tips in Home Security Overview and Outdoor Safety Overview.

Personal Safety Devices

See GPS Child Locator (new page).

See Personal Security Alarm: a.k.a. noisemaker or screamer (new page).

See Pepper Spray & where to buy pepper spray (new page).

WARNING! Check with your local police before carrying any personal security products. Also check the laws where you plan to visit. Airports, some public facilities and sports arenas prohibit some personal security products.

Hotel/Motel Doorstop Alarms (a wedge under the door) won't stop a Home Security - Push-In or a kick-in. But when traveling (or in a school dormitory), this will at least slow unwanted entry, alert you, and likely scare off an intruder.

Stash Safes (a.k.a. diversion safes) hide your valuables in ordinary containers at home or away.

Stash Clothing hides your valuables in hidden belts, socks, or pockets. Give a mugger a dummy wallet stuffed with small bills, then run to safety. See Give Up Your Money – Quickly Yet Carefully in Outdoor Safety - Facing Danger

Stun guns or batons produce a menacing electrical arcing that might scare off an attacker, but otherwise have drawbacks as security products. You must be very close to your attacker while holding the device on his bare skin before it stuns (clothing hampers it further). Also, you can use it on only one attacker; what if there's more than one?

Tasers (basically, stun guns with wired darts that fly toward the attacker) are also problematic as security products: it’s hard to hit a moving target. Again, you can use it on only one attacker; what if there's more than one?

Stun Lights briefly impair an attacker’s vision (similar to a camera's flash bulb) but are bulky and less effective in daylight as security products.

Skunk sprays are foul-smelling chemicals (worse than a skunk) that nauseate both the attacker and victim. It makes no sense to deter your escape. Pepper sprays are better security products.

Dye spray indelibly marks a criminal to help catch him afterwards. Big deal! Pepper spray stops him beforehand.

Kubotans are 4-inch ribbed rods with a hole in one end for your key ring. One end can project from your fist like an ice pick, and the other end can whip your keys into the eyes of an attacker. Be careful, they may be classified as "brass knuckles" – illegal in many states.

The women were hiking back to the hostel when the man began following them. He appeared drunk and became increasingly aggressive towards them after they rejected his advances, police said. One of the women produced a penknife in an attempt to scare the man off but he grabbed it and used the knife to force himself on the two women, raping them one after the other.
Excerpted from The Independent (Hong Kong) – 15 June 2004

Knives are effective if in hand and if you’re truly willing to use one in self-defense. If, instead, you try merely bluffing with it, you may end up having the knife taken away from you.

Guns are the most effective security products – if in hand and if you’re truly willing to kill and not merely try to bluff. Get proper training from certified experts, practice regularly, and obey all laws.

The fierce political controversy of gun control laws is profoundly complex. The fundamental dilemma at the heart of the matter is that a gun may be a savior for defending yourself or a destroyer if you’re emotionally out of control – or if it falls into the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, or untrained and irresponsible children.

Better than anyone else, you know the tendencies of you and your family toward accidents, depression, and anger – or mature responsibility (after thoroughly training all family members and obeying all laws). It’s up to you to trust yourself and your family with a gun, or to take your chances on remaining unarmed in a violent world.

Either choice has valid pros and cons. But keep quiet about whichever choice you make. Gun owners shouldn't broadcast strategic information, and unarmed people shouldn’t broadcast their vulnerability. If you choose to remain unarmed, you might still remain safe by carefully observing the safety procedures and unarmed fighting techniques taught throughout Crime-Safety-Security.com.

If you are considering buying a gun, find sensible guidance in Armed & Female by Paxton Quigley.

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