Finding The Proper Self Defense For Seniors Could Be As Easy As Knowing Where To Buy Stun Guns

The senior citizen population is one that is growing with each new day as the last of the baby boomers hit retirement age. What this often means for these newly retired baby boomers is more free time spent outdoors, alone and relatively unprotected. What this means for the scumbag criminal purse snatchers of the world is more targets to rob of their jewelry, money and in some unfortunate cases, life. However, there is a humane, legal, effective and safe way for these senior citizens to protect themselves and that is with a stun gun.
The word stun gun immediately brings to many peoples mind an illegal torturous device of an almost medieval quality meant to punish, maim and destroy anything in its path when the truth is quite the opposite. Stun devices were built as a non-lethal alternative to firearms, one that was meant to effectively stop an attacker without robbing that attacker’s parents of their child or children of their father. Stun guns were built on the principal of live and let live and that is why I feel they deserve our praise and not our disdain. They are also quite safe and that is why I feel they can make a wonderful tool of self defense for anyone but especially some senior citizens.
The fact of the matter is that senior citizens are at a higher risk of being attacked then their younger counterparts and the reason for that is quite simple. Criminals with intent to rob someone are going to rob those that they feel will offer them the least resistance. If you could put yourself in the shoes of such a criminal for just a moment I would ask you just one question and that is this, ‘all things being equal, would you be more likely to try and physically take something from a 70 year old or a 35 year old?’. Obviously it would depend on some things but on average the 70 year old is much more likely to appeal to a criminal than is a 35 year old. The simple fact of the matter is that age does eventually slow us down a bit and in the process makes us less capable of fending off a physical assault. So why not give these seniors a way to legally and effectively defend themselves against these criminals? That is exactly what stun guns do; level the playing field against these bad people. There are of course exceptions and stun guns, like any other self-defense device, are not suitable for everybody. Here is the rule of thumb I use for recommending stun devices to seniors, if you can legally operate an automobile you should by all means be capable of operating a stun device. A half ton of steel cruising at 65 miles per hour is certainly a bigger responsibility and far more dangerous than any stun device ever made.

Stay Safe,
Carl Vouer

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What Is The Best Means Of Self Defense For A Senior Citizen? Personal Alarms.

I love my mother. I love my grandma. I would much rather neither of them be the victim of a violent attack. I doubt very much that I am alone on this. I think that many people care very deeply for one or more senior citizens that they know. That is why I think it is such a great idea and such a wonderful gesture of appreciation when we can go just a little bit out of our way to make sure that these seniors we care for have a means of self defense in the way of a personal alarm.




Personal alarms are great because they are truly as ‘safe’ as a tool of self defense can possibly get. I’m not comfortable with my 87 year old grandmother walking around with a handgun. That isn’t safe for her or anyone around her. I don’t like anyone having a firearm, much less a senior citizen. I think the world would be a far safer place if every firearm were to instantly vanish right now. I will always choose the more humane, non-lethal alternative.



I have no problem with the majority of able-bodied seniors carrying a stun device as long as they are in fact able bodied and sound of mind and are properly trained in using such a stun device. However a stun device is no joke and the decision to carry one should not be taken lightly. I also understand that a stun device is not for everyone and that some people just do not feel comfortable with one and so for many people this just is not an option.



Defensive sprays are great for any and every responsible adult looking for a means of self defense. I would say they are immeasurably less dangerous than a firearm and considerably less dangerous than a stun device. However there is still an inherent danger level involved in using a defensive spray, especially with a senior who may not be as physically strong as their attacker. Namely the threat of the defensive spray being turned against them by the attacker.



So what is my choice for senior citizen self defense tool of the century? A personal alarm. Personal alarms for seniors are completely and utterly safe and can still be as effective as any non-lethal self defense weapon. A personal alarm works by emitting an extremely loud alarm (130db or more in some cases!). Usually what happens when some cowardly punk scumbag attacker tries to engage someone smaller and weaker than themselves and a 130 decibel alarm goes off is that the coward attacker decides to turn tail and run for fear of being caught. Unless the attacker is a complete fool he will understand that when one of these alarms starts wailing that people will start diverting their attention to the source of such a noise.



So please do yourself and your loved ones (of any age) a favor and strongly consider carrying a personal alarm with you at all times.



Stay Safe,



Puzek Security Systems

Ring….Ring….It’s Safety Calling and It Wants Seniors To Have A Cell Phone Stun Gun

The average senior citizen today is more tech savvy than they the average senior citizen was 5 years ago. Society is just headed in that direction. In another 5 years the average senior citizen (and people of every age) will be that much more savvy in regards to technology. For the most part technology has made so many aspects of our lives easier and more effective. Non-lethal self defense weapons are certainly no exception when it comes to this. In fact they may be the perfect example.



How did seniors defend themselves before technology introduced such wonders as the Pretender cell phone stun gun? What a perfect device to help anyone of any age feel safe and protected wherever they may be.



They look and feel like a real cell phone so portability, usability and conceal-ability is not a problem. Nor is effectiveness as these little handheld stun devices pack a walloping 4.5 million volts. If you ever find yourself needing to use one of these guns you won’t have to worry about it not getting the job done. I assure you that your attacker is not going to be immune to 4.5 million volts entering his nervous system. These devices turn sweet little old ladies into Mike Tyson (without all of the emotional baggage) at the flip of a switch.



Another thing I love about stun guns is that even though they are extremely effective due to their high voltage they are extremely safe due to their low amperage. This volts to amps ratio is what allows that sweet old lady to make an attacker stop attacking whereas a firearm could very well make the attacker stop breathing. I don’t know about the sweet old lady but I really don’t want to be responsible for someone losing their life. Even if it is in the name of self defense.



So if you are a senior and you cant bench 450 pounds and stop bullets I would strongly suggest you take very simple and affordable measures to help ensure your safety. Pretender stun gun cell phones fit the bill quite nicely.



Stay Safe,



Puzek Security Systems

A Senior Citizen Without A Personal Alarm Is Like Peanut Butter With No Jelly

Senior citizens, on average, are less capable of handling themselves in a physical altercation than they were when they were 10 or 20 or 30 years younger. That is just a fact. There is no fighting Father Time. I am in my 30′s and I assure you that I am just a bit slower than I was in my 20′s. And in 10 years I will be a bit slower than I am now and with that I will most likely be a bit less capable of besting an attacker should a physical altercation occur.



Potential scumbag attackers know this. Criminals are opportunistic if nothing else. They want to do the least amount of work possible to attain their goal of obtaining things that don’t belong to them. So if you take some strung out crackhead who needs money for his next fix and he’ll do anything to get it and sees a little sweet old lady and a 35 year old male he is going to go after the little old lady. It just is what it is. So I would hope that the sweet little old lady is carrying something to help protect her.



I strongly suggest 1 of three items. A stun device, defensive spray or a personal alarm. I know that some people are leery of carrying a stun device and/or pepper spray as they are concerned that these weapons could be used against them. I will tell you that the likelihood of these weapons being turned on the user is very scarce but if people truly do not feel comfortable carrying these items than please, please, please consider carrying on your person a personal alarm of some sort. Especially if you are a senior citizen.



Personal alarms are 100% safe, can not be used against you and are extremely easy to carry. Many of these personal alarms attach to your key chain to help ensure you do not forget to bring it along when you leave the house. They work by simply alerting others that you are in trouble. If an attacker approaches you simply press a button on the small handheld device and an extremely loud (130 decibels or more in some cases) alarm emits from the device.



Criminals dont like being caught. As part of this they do not enjoy having others alerted to what they are doing and anyone within earshot is certainly going to be alerted, and their attention drawn, when one of these little beauties starts wailing its distress call. More often than not I would expect the attacker to turn tail and run as soon as the alarm starts screaming for fear of being apprehended. So please be prepared. Violence can happen anywhere, anytime and to anyone.



Stay Safe.



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Self Defense For Seniors Begins With Buying Pepper Spray

When you get older you naturally begin to lose speed, strength and agility. That is in no way, shape or form saying one needs to become a pushover at 75. Staying in shape through diet and exercise can truly be a fountain of youth in a very real sense. The fact of the matter is though that you are probably not as likely to win a physical altercation at 80 as you are at 30. It just is what it is and so let’s make sure that if we have perhaps lost a step we can still defend ourselves and in a relatively safe yet highly effective manner.


Pepper spray is non-lethal and is for the most part safe to carry. I say for the most part because at the end of the day pepper spray is effective for a reason. Because the stuff works really well. And with this effectiveness comes an inherent level of danger. Fortunately, more often than not the attacker receives nothing more than one of the most unpleasant feelings of his life and probable time trying to keep his ‘mean face’ on while eating in the cafeteria of the county prison.



For those of us still leery of choosing to carry pepper spray because of this danger let us ask ourselves what the alternative to carrying pepper spray can be. Let us say you are 75 and run into two or three 20 year old hoodlums that mean to take whatever money you have on you? Heck, forget what age something like that happens. Any one man is probably in some trouble in that situation unless he’s Walker Texas Ranger or something. Walker actually walks aroung looking for roaming gangs of 20 year olds to teach a lesson to. But he’s the exception. The rest of us need to ask ourselves if we are prepared for such situations. I would further say that the vast majority of us are not.



So let’s protect ourselves with some measure of self defense whether we are 75, 85, 95 or 25. I think the safest way to do this while still being effective is to buy pepper spray. You’re more than welcome to disagree with me it is just that you will be wrong. I’m just kidding. No I’m not.



Stay Safe.



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Stun Master Stun Guns Are Probably Endorsed By Walker Texas Ranger

Listen, I don’t actually know Mr. Walker or whether or not he actually has an endorsement deal from the makers of Stun Master stun guns but I can only assume that he does. I mean just look at the swagger. If you can even look at it without going blind from the awesomeness. The guy knew he could handle any situation. He knew in his heart that the bad guys out there were just buying a one-way ticket to Hurtsville, U.S.A. if they crossed him. Walker was all man, Partner.




What could instill that kind of confidence in an individual? That sense of security? Well, you keep guessing because I know full well he must have had on him a Stun Master stun gun. He had a way to protect himself and not have to do it in a fashion that might prove lethal. Walker was badder than a rattlesnake but deep down he cared for his fellow man and didn’t want to cause serious injury, paralysis or possible death if it wasnt completely neccesary. He knows he just wouldn’t have that choice of deciding life or death using his firearm or his patented backward roundhouse kick to the think-tank.



The man knew that he had the ability to stop even the most vicious and savage of attackers by merely touching them with a small handheld device. And that even after doing so he did not have to worry about sending the man off to the morgue or most likely even a hospital. He would instead send him off to jail where scum like that belong.



So yes, because of my undying admiration for Walker Texas Ranger (and obvious legal reasons) I can not say whether or not the man is actually endorsed by Stun Master. Only that he certainly should be. Although if you think about it The Total Gym has got to be eating up some precious Stun Master stun guns endorsement time.



Stay Safe.



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Stun Guns Turn Senior Citizens Into Bruce Lee

My grandmother refuses to carry a stun gun or even pepper spray. I am not sure why but I’m not going to bug her for all eternity about it. I love her to death and wish she would consider but there is only so much I can do. She is a 75 year old woman who lives alone.




I’m not saying that she is incapable of handling herself but the fact of the matter is the average 75 year old woman is not going to win a physical altercation with the average young male who is prone to break into her house. My grandma is not taking a 22 year old meth head burglar with a well timed roundhouse kick to the solar plexus. My grandmother is no push over. She takes walks everyday (every day that Chicago weather will spare) and golfs borderline ‘avidly’. But the odds are just against it. Most criminals are also opportunistic if nothing else. A meth head wants to do the least amount of work for a fix and that means if they have to rob someone they are going to pick someone they think that they have the best chance of obtaining money from. Predators are pretty much the same in the mammal kingdom. They feed on the ‘weakest’ members of the group as it increases their chances of success. Also I am not calling senior citizens weak, grandma would put my head through a wall if I did.



I’m simply stating that I’d love to see her increase her chances of being unharmed in a situation like that should it ever occur. And if she had a stun gun than hot dang. She’d have herself a hand held Bruce Lee. Like I said, the woman is in shape. She can effectively wield a stun gun. It is not a complex weapon, it is not heavy, and the best part is it is non-lethal. Yes fatalities have been caused by stun devices but chairs, lamps and bricks have caused fatalities at some point. It’s rare. The vast majority of times the assailant will get to go off to jail and not to a cemetery. And I don’t ever want to be the reason, or have my Grandmother be the reason, that someone lost their life. Even if it is by means of self defense.



So if you are a senior living alone or with a spouse on your own I would hope you would consider doing yourself and the people that love you a huge favor and have something. If you won’t buy stun guns than buy pepper spray or a dog or pay some guy to actually dress up in that pimp yellow jumpsuit Bruce had in ‘Game of Death’ and just stand outside your house, but something. Increase your odds and not keep a deadly weapon in the house at the same time.



Thank you for once again listening to my sometimes endless, yet well-intended ramblings.



Stay Safe.



Puzek Security Systems

Self Defense for Seniors: Personal Alarms

I’m back to yet again talk about another set of items I think every senior living on their own should strongly consider having in their possession. I’ve talked about stun guns for seniors and pepper spray for seniors and now I want to talk about personal alarms for seniors. Before I talk about them though let me just preface all of this by reiterating the fact that I don’t believe that seniors are the only ones that could benefit from having an extra measure of defense on hand. Nor am I saying that seniors couldn’t possibly defend themselves without the use of such devices. I’m just saying that if you are a senior living alone (even with a senior spouse) it wouldn’t hurt any to have a little extra help.

Now in the past I’ve discussed my belief that defensive sprays and stun guns work wonderfully as tools of self defense for seniors. However I am not so close minded as to not understand some peoples concern with these items. They do come with an inherent level of danger and the choice to arm yourselves with these needs to be taken very seriously. If people don’t feel comfortable using these items I can completely respect and understand such a decision. They are both non-lethal but the fact of the matter is they have unfortunately proven fatal in some remote cases.

There are less dangerous yet still highly effective self defense systems. Personal alarms are one. Take for instance the Mace&trade Screecher Alarm. This is one of those items that doesn’t incapacitate the attacker like a stun device or defensive spray. It simply screeches loud enough to wake the dead when you ask it too. So lets say you are out for a walk and some lawless thug wants to take something from you without asking. You simply pull this thing out and press the button and the compressed air device will scream louder than you could ever hope to although I suggest screaming along with the device in a case like being attacked by some stranger. This thing can be heard from a quarter mile away. That’s going to get some attention just about any time of day or night. It also should throw a potential attacker off his game. An attacker doesn’t want a crowd and the Screecher Alarm just went and screamed ‘hey look over here!!!!’ to anyone in the vicinity.

So if you’re not going to look into carrying a stun gun or pepper spray with you at least have a personal alarm of some sort. You will very likely never have to use the alarm but you’ll be so amazingly happy if you do need to and you were wise enough to pick one up.

Stay Safe.

For more items of self defense for seniors or to buy personal alarms online please visit us at Puzek Security Systems.