Self Defense For Seniors Should Start With A Visit To Your Stun Gun Dealer

Senior citizens, especially those living alone, need to be prepared to defend themselves at any time. A violent attack can happen at any time, any place and to anyone. Senior citizens could potentially be at a higher risk as they may be less apt at defending themselves in a physical alteration and potential assailants could consider this when picking a target. With that said seniors should consider carrying on their person a means of defending themselves should such an attack occur.

Senior citizens have many choices when it comes to weapons of self-defense but I’d like to focus only on the ones that are first and foremost effective and secondly those that are non-lethal. So when discussing non-lethal items you have a few options. Defensive sprays like mace and pepper spray are extremely effective, relatively safe and considered non-lethal. The one drawback is that in most cases even the sprayer can catch some of the “sprayback” and be affected by the contents of the spray. With that said I think pepper spray is a wonderful choice for most seniors. Senior Citizens can also consider carrying a personal alarm. These can also be effective and are absolutely 100% harmless. They work by emitting an extremely loud alarm that both frightens the assailant and draws the attention of everyone in the vicinity. The major drawback to these is that the assailant is in no way harmed and could possibly wrestle the alarm away from his or her victim before it has enough time to draw the necessary attention needed to diffuse the situation. They are still a nice thing for seniors to have and far better than nothing at all.

Another option, and the one I’d like to discuss here, is a stun gun. Stun guns work by emitting a high voltage, low amperage current of non-lethal electricity into the attacker’s body. What the current does essentially is disrupts the basic neurological pulses of the attacker’s nervous system. It makes the attackers muscles contract and relax so rapidly and involuntarily that it immediately converts the muscles blood sugar into lactic acid and the attacker is physically spent, confused and incoherent in just a few seconds. In almost all cases this will end almost any attacker’s plans for the evening but it will do so without having to kill the attacker. It takes very little strength or mobility to operate a stun device and almost no training. They are also very easy to carry, all of which make stun guns an ideal weapon of self-defense for seniors.

Stay Safe,

Puzek Security Systems

To see more items of self defense for seniors please visit your friendly online stun gun dealer.