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August 1, 2009 8:50 am | Stun Gun

About Stun Guns Self Defense Products

Self Defense Products for Women

It is estimated that at least 80% of assaults are directed at women. Criminals that commit physical violence, robbery and even sexual assault make women their targets, taking advantage of their relative physical limitations. To make sure you, a family member or a friend does not become a part of this statistic, consider investing time and effort in knowing the right steps for self-protection. Here are tips for finding the best self-defense product that work for women:

Find the product that is known to work
There are dozens of self-defense products in the market, many of which are especially designed for use by women. However, there is a handful that more women prefer. Some of them include: pepper sprays, stun guns or tasers, kubotans and sap gloves.

Pepper sprays are currently one of the top choices for women and young teens. It’s very effective for temporarily disabling an attacker, thanks to its combination of irritants in the solution. Stun guns are also excellent for use by women because their effect is immediate. The shock from a taser is usually enough to disable an attacker in just a matter of seconds.

There are also self-defense products that require some physical skills on the part of women. You might want to consider this factor prior to purchase. Products such as kubotans and sap gloves, for example, will require some physical strength and work best for a woman who is capable of striking out or throwing a punch during an attack.

Choose the product that is easy to carry and use
The best self-defense product for women is one that is light enough to be carried anywhere and portable enough to be concealed or kept in a pocket or handbag. Products such as these don’t draw too much attention and are unobtrusive enough to be concealed.

A few examples of the best easy-to-carry self-defense products for women include cell phone tasers, lipstick pepper sprays, pepper spray pens and even pepper spray rings. They may seem small but they do carry sufficient power to help stop an attacker in his tracks. A pepper spray pen, for example, contains enough solution for a 5- to 10-second burst of irritants.

Choose a product that matches the woman’s lifestyle
Does your friend or family member live alone, work late or travel frequently? Has their neighborhood experienced burglaries in the past? The best self-defense product for women is one that meets their immediate needs. A simple home or car alarm system, for example, can help prevent a dangerous crime whether they are at home or driving to and from work. If they need a handheld gadget, a small bottle of pepper spray or a portable stun gun will be of great use. Some states restrict the use of these gadgets, though, so it helps to check if it’s legal to carry them around.

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Women don’t have to settle into using only pepper sprays for self defense, there are more interesting self defense products. One is a cell phone stun gun.

Desperate Measures : Unarmed Self-Defense Against Guns, Knives, and Cl

$26.16

Desperate Measures : Unarmed Self-Defense Against Guns, Knives, and Cl

Live to Tell about It: Self Defense Techniques

$31.95

Live to Tell about It: Self Defense Techniques

Live To Tell About It: Self Defense Techniques

$28.12

Live To Tell About It: Self Defense Techniques

Guns and Violence

$5.48

Behind the passionate debate over gun control and armed crime lurk assumptions about the link between guns and violence. Indeed, the belief that more guns in private hands means higher rates of armed crime underlies most modern gun control legislation. But are these assumptions valid? Investigating the complex and controversial issue of the real relationship between guns and violence, Joyce Lee Malcolm presents an incisive, thoroughly researched historical study of England, whose strict gun laws and low rates of violent crime are often cited as proof that gun control works. To place the private ownership of guns in context, Malcolm offers a wide-ranging examination of English society from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century, analyzing changing attitudes toward crime and punishment, the impact of war, economic shifts, and contrasting legal codes on violence. She looks at the level of armed crime in England before its modern restrictive gun legislation, the limitations that gun laws have imposed, and whether those measures have succeeded in reducing the rate of armed crime. Malcolm also offers a revealing comparison of the experience in England experience with that in the modern United States. Today Americans own some 200 million guns and have seen eight consecutive years of declining violence, while the English–prohibited from carrying weapons and limited in their right to self-defense have suffered a dramatic increase in rates of violent crime. This timely and thought-provoking book takes a crucial step in illuminating the actual relationship between guns and violence in modern society. (20020730)

Set Phasers on Stun

$21.98

A disturbing share of technological disasters are caused by incompatibilities between the way things are designed and the way people actually perceive, think, and act. Structurally sound aircraft plummet to the earth, supertankers run aground in calm weather, and the machines of medical science maim unsuspecting patients – - all because designers sometimes fail to reflect the characteristics of the user in their designs. Designers and the public alike are realizing that many human’ errors are more aptly named designed-induced’ errors. Most consumers experience the frustration of using many new products; amusing stories about programming a VCR, operating a personal computer, or finding the headlight switch on a rental car are heard in everyday conversation. The problems consumers experience with modern everyday things are shared by the users of large-scale technologies where the consequences of design can go well beyond simple matters of inconvenience or amusement. In the new second edition of Set Phasers on Stun’ and Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error, noted designer and author Steven Casey has assembled 20 factual and arresting stories about people and their attempts to use modern technological creations. Although the operator or pilot usually gets blamed for a big disaster, the root cause can frequently be found in subtle characteristics of the device’s human interface.’ Technological disasters can often be traced directly to the interplay between people and the design of a device – - be it an airliner cockpit, the controls in an industrial plant, a spacecraft’s instruments, a medical system, a nuclear reactor, or even a commercial dishwashing machine. The most effective way to convey the consequences of design-induced human error is with a good story and just the right level of technical detail, and this is what Casey has done in his new book. As stated by Alphonse Chapanis, one of the founders of the human factors engineering discipline, Set Phasers on Stun is A tour de force. A collection of gripping and often alarming true stories meticulously documented and skillfully told about design-induced human errors. It should be required reading for all engineers and designers, and everyone else concerned about the ways our modern technological creations can affect our everyday lives. Skylab-4 astronaut Gerald Carr agrees: The book is …an engrossing tour through the world of human susceptibility to subtle variations in environment and in design.

Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories By Women

$4.99

Her Wits About Her: Self-Defense Success Stories By Women

Self-Defense for Kids

$7.98

This book teaches children about strangers, important safety tips, martial arts techniques, practical applications, and much more. More important, the series of self defense techniques are designed specifically for children-their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their mentality.

Guns and Violence: The English Experience

$14.27

This is an intellectually challenging book which addresses avery important subject. I believe it will be widely read andmuch debated. Its arguments will be controversial, but the bookappears to establish that the case for gun control has yet to bemade, and there is a significant and respectable case againstgun control.Behind the passionate debate over gun control and armed crime lurk assumptions about the link between guns and violence. Indeed, the belief that more guns in private hands means higher rates of armed crime underlies most modern gun control legislation. But are these assumptions valid?Investigating the complex and controversial issue of the real relationship between guns and violence, Joyce Lee Malcolm presents an incisive, thoroughly researched historical study of England, whose strict gun laws and low rates of violent crime are often cited as proof that gun control works. To place the private ownership of guns in context, Malcolm offers a wide-ranging examination of English society from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century, analyzing changing attitudes toward crime and punishment, the impact of war, economic shifts, and contrasting legal codes on violence. She looks at the level of armed crime in England before its modern restrictive gun legislation, the limitations that gun laws have imposed, and whether those measures have succeeded in reducing the rate of armed crime.Malcolm also offers a revealing comparison of the experience in England experience with that in the modern United States. Today Americans own some 200 million guns and have seen eight consecutive years of declining violence, while the English–prohibited from carrying weapons and limited in their right to self-defense have suffered a dramatic increase in rates of violent crime.This timely and thought-provoking book takes a crucial step in illuminating the actual relationship between guns and violence in modern @,Š=p£×ÿ¾Úð

Self Defense for Kids

$13.56

DIVThis book teaches children about strangers, important safety tips, martial arts techniques, practical applications, and much more. More important, the series of self defense techniques are designed specifically for children-their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their mentality./DIV

Guns in the Workplace

$14.48

The book is the only legal reference manual that covers the issue of guns in the workplace in full detail. It includes legal policies, disciplinary procedures, crisis control, no firearms policies, court tests, use of lethal force, self-defense and practical applications.

Total Self-Defense for Women

$8.62

Total Self Defense Technique for Women is created by Master Lee, acclaimed Tae Kwon Do instructor, creator of the J. Lee Tae Kwon Do System taught at his Los Angeles studio, and longtime Captain and Trainer of Korean Tigers, the world s most renowned mixed martial arts performance team. pp Master Lee teaches simple and effective self-defense techniques from a practical, realistic angle. The program covers a range of real life scenarios and addresses both physical and psychological aspects of confrontation. pp You will learn about the most typical attack tactics and how to correctly assess risk and escape from personal danger by employing defense techniques derived from martial arts. pp Each defense tactic carries its own risks affecting its potential. Master Lee teaches you how to select which defense tactic to use by classifying the body targets of self-defense moves into 3 groups of increasing risk: Targeting the first group has the greatest potential for defeating your attacker, but not in every situation will you have the chance to target the first group. Understanding your attacker s vulnerability is crucial, and you will learn how to do that. pp Every defense move is explained, shown in detail, and then demonstrated by Master Lee and Yesenia Adame. Sections teaching and analyzing individual defense techniques are followed by defense move combinations that put together strikes, blocks and escape moves. pp Master Lee breaks down techniques for strikes (fingertips, punch, palm hand, back fist, elbow) and kicks (front kick, roundhouse kick, side kick and knee). Then he teaches escapes, twists, and throws, and analyzes the psychological principles underlying situations of physical confrontation, including the body language you need to convey a readiness to defend oneself as opposed to a passive, victim-like stance. pp Escape moves and twisting releases are designed to trick the mind of an attacker with unexpected directional ch@!=p£×ÿ¾Úð

A Crime of Self-Defense

$5.48

The popular press dubbed him "the subway vigilante": Bernhard Goetz, who on December 22, 1984, shot four black youths on a New York subway train when one of them asked for five dollars. Goetz claimed to have fired in self-defense, out of fear that the young men were about to rob him.

Common Sense Self-Defense

$9.98

A former US Navy SEAL and a police SWAT team officer show you how to protect yourself and your loved ones in life threatening situations: Date rape. Purse snatching. Car jacking. Mugging. This world can be a dangerous place. Now police officer David Garcia and former Navy SEAL Stewart Smith show you how to protect yourself. Together they have created the premier instruction book on effective personal protection, Common Sense Self-Defense: 7 Techniques That Can Save Your Life. This book presents an intelligent approach to self-defense that anyonespouse, son, daughter, mother, brother, sistercan use in times of trouble. Common Sense Self-Defense is a basic program that takes only minutes a week to practice, as opposed to a martial arts program, which takes several hours a day to master. This book offers options and techniques, as well as a sure-fire method of analyzing the inherent danger of any situation. The program presents seven effective physical techniques to aid in surviving almost any predicament, plus ways to avoid potentially life threatening scenarios. No matter how little you know about defending yourself, this book will teach you everything you need to escape or survive an attack. 100 b/w photos.

The Gun Digest Book of Guns for Personal Defense

$13.98

Personal protection is a hot topic today, and current, complete information on the handguns used for it is in great demand. This Gun Digest? new release provides just that. Handgun enthusiasts or anyone looking to find out about handguns for personal defense will find everything they need to know in the pages of this comprehensive guide and reference.Readers will learn the basics of selection and use of handguns for personal defense. The book covers uses of revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, ammunition, holsters, firearms training options, buying a used gun and much more. A catalog section contains listings of currently available pistols and revolvers suitable for personal defense, complete with pricing for each.

Negroes with Guns

$15.5

First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community’s struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local authorities against blacks, the small community of Monroe, North Carolina, brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Under the leadership of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), Monroe became the test case of the right of blacks to armed self-defense when law and order broke down.pIn 1961 Williams was framed for kidnapping and had to flee the country with his family. From exile in Cuba, Williams told his story of the Monroe case to Marc Schleifer in a three-hour interview, beginning with his return to his home town of Monroe in 1955 as a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, when he joined the local chapter of the NAACP. Williams described his involvement, supplemented by material from Williams’ articles and editorials featured in the newsletter, The Crusader — which Williams and his wife Mabel continued to publish in Cuba for a circulation of thousands — and an interview with John Schultz first published in Studies on the Left. These materials became Negroes with Guns.pThe single most important intellectual influence on Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Negroes with Guns is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and freedom.

In Self-Defense

$3.48

In Self-Defense by Sarah Gregory Published in 1995 by Signet

Belief about the Self: A Defense of the Property Theory of Content

$47.74

Philosophers typically suppose that the contents of our beliefs and other cognitive attitudes are propositions-things that might be true or false, and their truth values do not vary from time to time, place to place, or person to person. Neil Feit argues that this view breaks down in the face of beliefs about the self. These are beliefs that we express by means of a first-person pronoun. Feit maintains-following David Lewis, Roderick Chisholm, and others-that in general, the contents of our beliefs are properties. Unlike propositions, properties lack absolute truth values that do not vary with time, place, or person.brbremBelief about the Self/emoffers a sustained defense of the Property Theory of Content, according to which the content of every cognitive attitude is a property rather than a proposition. The theory is supported with an array of new arguments, defended from various objections, and applied to some important problems and puzzles in the philosophy of mind.brIntroductionbr1. Mental Content and the Problem ofemDe Se/emBeliefbr2. In Favor of the Property Theorybr3. Alternatives to the Property Theorybr4. Arguments against the Property Theorybr5. The Property Theory andemDe Re/emBeliefbr6. The Property Theory, Rationality, and Kripke’s Puzzle about BeliefbrstrongN 7/strongThe Property Theory, Twin Earth, and Belief about KindsbrReferencesbrIndexbrbrFeit’s book not only makes substantial new contributions to our understanding of belief about the self and its representational content, but it is also such a model of clear exposition that I would recommend it to those who are just starting to think about these issues.–emNotre Dame Philosophical/ememReviews/emp/pbrFeit’s discussion of the arguments for and against the property theory of content is philosophically sophisticated, generous, and fair-minded, and he finds some extremely interesting applications for his version of the property theory.–And@GÞ¸Që…ÿ¾Úð

Guns and Rubles: The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State

$42.58

DIVDIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptFor this book a distinguished team of economists and historians—R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison—scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry, a top-secret branch of the Soviet economy, the volume’s contributors uncover new information on the inner workings of Stalin’s dictatorship, military and economic planning, and the industrial organization of the Soviet economy./PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptPreviously unknown details about Stalin’s command system come to light, as do fascinating insights into the relations between Soviet public and private interests. The authors show that defense was at the core of Stalin’s system of rule; single-minded management of the defense sector helped him keep his grip on power./P/DIV/DIVThis volume covers a hugely important topic and is bursting with findings. It marries rich empirical detail with sophisticated theoretical treatment.}Yoram Gorlizki, University of ManchesterThis book presents a clear picture of the role of the defence sector in economic planning in the USSR in the pre-World War II period. It combines economic analysis with archival research.}Michael Ellman, University of AmsterdamIn the last decade a group of scholars have finally shown us how Stalin’s dictatorship worked. Now they demystify one of the paradoxes of the Soviet Union: how could central planning have defeated the Nazis? The book will be a must read for all those interested in dictatorship and the political economy of development.}James Robinson, Harvard UniversityMark Harrison and his colleagues have produced a volume that is as important as it is fascinating. The defense industry has always been the heart of the Soviet economy, and to understand the command eco@EJ=p£×ÿ¾Úð

Guns 101

$22.98

This book guides the reader through the thought process of deciding what type of firearm to buy based on how they plan to use the firearm. Topics include: Personal Protection / Self Defense, Hunting, Competition, and Self Gratification / Personal Achievement