Are Stun Guns Appropriate For Seniors? Only For The Ones Who Don’t Want To Get Robbed

I was just asked recently by one of my customers if I thought that a stun gun was an appropriate means of protection for his mother. As always I did not just say “Yes. Absolutely. You should get her one today”. I didn’t say that because I didn’t know until I had a chance to ask a few more questions. Age is not necessarily the determining factor in this decision. I know some individuals in their thirties who should not own a stun gun and some in their nineties who are more than capable of harnessing the power and responsibility that comes with carrying a stun device.

So what are the determining factors? In my opinion that boils down to two things. The physical and mental capacity to operate such a device and the maturity level of the potential operator. So if someone asks me if a stun device is appropriate for a particular senior citizen I usually counter by asking “Does this person drive a car?” If the answer is yes than I would say that person should be more than capable of handling a stun device. If you can legally cruise around at 55 miles per hour in a ton of steel than operating a handheld stun device should not present a problem for you.

An unfortunate and unavoidable fact of life is that as we get older we naturally get a tad slower and lose our ability to defend ourselves as easily as we could when we were younger. Another unfortunate and unavoidable fact of life is that there are bad people out there that will take advantage of someone they consider to be ‘weaker’ than themselves. One of the easiest and most effective ways for seniors to level the playing field is by carrying a stun gun.

Stun guns are wonderful because they are two things. Effective and non-lethal. Stun guns work by using high voltage and low amperage to temporarily disable an attacker for several minutes. The current temporarily disrupts the attackers neurological impulses that control voluntary muscle movement. Basically the attacker loses control of his or her own body and makes them lay down and act nice. The fact that they are non-lethal is great because we don’t need little old ladies, or anyone for that matter, walking around with a lethal device like a firearm and shooting first and asking questions later. That would be bad.

So if you are a senior yourself or know one whom you would like to see protected please consider stun guns for seniors.

Stay Safe,

Puzek Security Systems

Electronic Dog Repellers Are Good For People Who Aren’t Trying To Get Rabies

Contracting rabies does not sound fun. After being infected with rabies the victim will feel flu-like symptoms after about 2 to 12 weeks from being bitten. Soon after the flu-like symptoms begin the victim will begin showing signs of anxiety, confusion, agitation and all sorts of really uncool things. Eventually these symptoms progress into complete and utter delirium and then finally death. In these late stages of the disease the very sight of liquids will send the victim into sheer uncontrollable panic. Much like the panic my brother Steve suffers when the bar he is at stops serving liquids. Almost no untreated rabies victim has ever lived. The very few who have survived have been left severely brain damaged. So to recap rabies makes you feel ill, then makes you completely lose your mind in sheer terror and then you die. Offhand I cannot think of too many things that would be worse than a rabies infestation. Let us thank our dear friend Mr. Louis Pasteur for coming up with the vaccine to this terrible disease many years before any of us were born. Could you imagine a time before the vaccine when people who suffered bites from a rabid dog were left to die a horribly excruciating death? Let us all take a moment to marvel at and thank Pasteur and modern medicine in general.

One of the ways to contract rabies is being bitten by a rabid dog. It is pretty rare to find a dog with rabies these days and I’m not sure why you would want to go looking for one but the best way to avoid being bit by a rabid dog is to keep your arms and legs out of it’s mouth. A good way to do that is to make sure no rabid dog gets close enough to do so. Let’s forget about rabid dogs for a moment and just try and not get bit by any dogs. There are plenty of canines out there capable of making us forget all about relatively ancient diseases and more about the gaping open wounds they have just left us with, if we are so obliged.

Electronic dog repellers are a great way to keep the distance between yourself and a dog you do not know and have no desire to get familiar with. There are two ways this beautiful little handheld device works. One is the discomforting but not harmful high frequency sound (20,000Hz-25,000Hz), audible to dogs but not to humans. And, the second is a super bright LED flashing strobe that temporarily blinds and confuses the dog. Both could come in very handy in some circumstances.

So if you live in an area where there are some questionable canines about you should seriously consider obtaining an electronic dog repeller.

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Puzek Security Systems

One Can Not Discuss Self Defense For Seniors Without Discussing Personal Alarms

We live in a crazy mixed up world. We always have and we always will. I truly believe that the vast majority of people today are more good than bad and only a select few can really be considered ‘evil’ people. With that said there are still a fair amount of people out there that will do harm to another and not think much of it. Usually because that person is one of those truly ‘evil’ folk or because he or she is whacked out on some drug or another and is no longer fully in control of their own thoughts or actions.

Nobody should be without a means of self-defense against these select few bad apples but more so than anyone a senior citizen should certainly have at their disposal some means of defending themselves should a situation arise that calls for such measures. I don’t think there is another item on the planet that is better suited for senior citizens than a personal alarm. Personal alarms are extremely easy to carry and more importantly even easier to use. The fact of the matter is that as we get older we lose some of our natural ability to defend ourselves and even if we didn’t who wants to get into a physical altercation if we don’t have to. If you are the type that can’t wait to find themselves in a physical altercation than you are probably the type I’m trying to save people from.

Most personal alarms work by emitting an extremely high decibel sound that will do one or both of two things…

A. It will scare the bejeezus out of your assailant, hopefully before they have the time to inflict any damage and …

B. Alert anyone that isn’t deaf and within earshot that something is happening.

So even if your assailant is, by some sheer coincidence, deaf as a post the chances are that everyone else with in screaming distance is not. And when those people hear something like the Mace brand Screecher alarm howling its extremely high decibel distress alarm they are going to pay notice and look in that direction. This is good for you and not so much for Mr. Assailant. The truth of the matter is that in the off chance you ever have to use a personal alarm that you won’t need to rely on others help. Mr. Assailant doesn’t want an audience when he is doing bad things and he or she is probably coherent enough to understand that the really loud noise coming from the alarm spells doom for them and they will most likely turn and run and wait for some other poor sap that wasn’t as well prepared as you.

So if you are a senior yourself or have a parent or grandparent whose safety you want to ensure as much as possible please consider them and buy a personal alarm.

Stay Safe,

Puzek Security Systems

Stun Gun Flashlights Are Great for People Who Dont Have Night Vision And Hate Being Mugged

Stun gun flashlights are truly one of a kind. They are multi-functional tools of safety and not just self-defense weapons. They first and foremost are a flashlight and who can’t use a flashlight on occasion. Unless of course they are capable of seeing in the dark. You know, people that have night vision. I believe they call those bats. So unless you are a bat the flashlight should come in handy on occasion. If you are a half-bat-half-human hybrid I hope that I have in no way offended you as that is pretty cool.

The stun gun flashlight is also a safety light which can be used in many situations but I think makes the most sense in traffic situations. Say your car stalls on the highway after the sun has gone down. That is always a tense situation and a potentially dangerous one that can now be avoided with this handy little tool. In a case like this it doesn’t matter whether or not you have night vision. It’s the other cars not seeing you that you have to worry about. Sorry bat guy.

The stun gun flashlight is also a high decibel alarm. This is where this instrument of self-defense really starts strutting its stuff. If someone were to approach you in a threatening manner you simply let this little baby start sounding off and I assure you that the assailant is going to think twice about continuing. When a 130 decibel alarm starts going off people start noticing. That’s great for you and bad for Mr. Assailant.

Last but certainly not least the stun gun flashlight is just that. A stun gun. A stun gun with 200,000 volts of stopping power. So even if Mr. Assailant is stupid enough to not heed the alarm he can come get a taste of what 200,000 volts can do. Let me tell you what it will do. Stop the assailant from doing anything but losing complete control over their own body. Fortunately for the assailant (I know that sounds odd) he or she won’t have to worry about any permanent damage as this weapon is as humane as a truly effective weapon of self-defense can be.

So just to recap…

If you don’t have night vision, are not a half human/half bat mutant and don’t enjoy being mugged you might want to seriously consider purchasing a stun gun flashlight of your very own.

Stay Safe,

Puzek Security Systems

Buy Bear Spray If You Are Going Camping And Not Stronger Than A Bear

I am often asked by my customers when an appropriate time to carry bear spray would be. The answer is simple really. Just ask yourself these two simple questions.




1. Am I going to be somewhere where wild bears have even the slightest chance of being seen?



2. Am I stronger than these bears?



If you answered yes to the first question and had to think about the answer to the second question for more than 1 second I would say that buying bear spray should be on the top of your list before your next camping trip.



Here’s the thing. What, realistically, are the chances of you ever using bear spray to save your own life? Pretty slim even if you are an avid camper. Now, what are the chances of you winning a fight between you and an 850 pound grizzly bear? I would say even slimmer unless you are defensive end Julius Peppers of my Chicago BEARS!!!!! I apologize. I get excited when talking about bears of any kind. Seriously though, Peppers is a beast of a man and if any human could take a grizzly bear it would probably be him. The rest of us should seriously consider carrying bear spray.



Here’s another tip when using bear spray. When you are camping you should ALWAYS have the bear spray on you. ALWAYS. It makes no sense not to. A bear attack is going to happen quickly and without much warning if with any warning at all. Bears move quickly so if one starts charging and you don’t have the bear spray in your hand or in a holster at your side you are in a huge amount of trouble. You are not going to out run a bear unless you are Devin Hester of the Chicago BEARS!!!! Okay. Sorry. But in all seriousness you need to have the spray on your person or there isn’t any use in buying it in the first place.



With Guard Alaska bear spray you simply point and spray. The canister has an easily removable safety clip and I would get in the habit of either removing it before you wander from the campsite or even while you are still at the site. Also I would practice taking it from the holster or even spraying it from the holster itself. Practice for an hour straight. Seriously, just practice grabbing it from its holster. Not only is a bear attack going to happen more or less as a complete surprise but you aren’t going to be thinking as clearly as you would with an 850 pound grizzly not charging. Grabbing the bear spray and using it has to be second nature.



Thank you as always for taking time to listen to my ramblings. My intent is always to help ensure that you and yours are well protected. In this case I’m simply saying that if you are going to be going camping anywhere there has ever been a bear sighting it would behoove you to buy bear spray


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Stay Safe,



Puzek Security Systems

Cheap Metal Detectors Are A Great Way To Make Sure Nobody Gets Shot At Your Party

I am a real social butterfly. I just love parties. I love just getting together with other people and unwinding after a long week of work and just socializing. I love getting together with old friends and retelling crazy stories from our youth and meeting new and interesting people and hearing new stories for the first time. One thing that I definitely do not enjoy though is being shot. Getting shot while enjoying yourself at a party is a real downer. It just ruins the entire atmosphere that the vast majority of parties are trying to convey when someone has to go and get shot.




A good friend will come up to me at the party and be like ”Hey remember that one time you and Steve went bungee jumping in New Zealand? Wasn’t that great?”. And I’ll be all like “Ha. Yeah that was a great time and I totally want to talk to you about it but right now I’m bleeding from the abdomen. You remember that loud banging sound you heard about 15 minutes ago? Yeah, that was me being shot. I’ll talk to you later though.”



This is why I always implore party planners or anyone trying to organize an event to please consider the use of a metal detector. Metal detectors are an inexpensive measure that can be taken to avoid a possible catastrophe. I’ve been to plenty of concerts, parties and get-togethers that have required me to be screened with a metal detector to enter the premises and exactly zero times have I been offended or felt put off by having to wait a few extra minutes to ensure that the event I am attending is free of anyone carrying a weapon. As long as you are not picking and choosing who is being screened there should not be a problem and nobody should feel singled out for any reason.



If I have to choose between waiting an additional 10 minutes to secure the event I am at to ensure that the event is safe and being rushed to the emergency room with multiple gunshot wounds I am going to go ahead and choose the former. Why not help ensure that your next party or event goes off without a hitch and get yourself a handheld metal detector. There is nothing more valuable than human life and if cheap metal detectors can help prevent the loss of that life than why not make sure we have one on hand at our next party.



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Puzek Security Systems

When Trouble Calls Answer With The Pretender Cell Phone Stun Gun

Anyone who wants to truly feel safe should have at their disposal some means of self defense. Anyone who cares about human life should make sure that self defense comes in the form of something non-lethal. Anyone who wants to make sure that the means of self defense is going to be entirely effective should make sure that the self defense tool is a stun gun. Anyone who doesn’t want the entire world to know they are carrying a weapon of non-lethal self defense should make sure that the stun gun is a cell phone stun gun.




It’s not that I am necessarily opposed to the ‘walk softly and carry a big stick’ ideology (I think Teddy Roosevelt actually said ‘speak softly..’ but whatever) it is just that I don’t think its very practical to walk around letting everyone know that you have a stun gun. I could see that actually causing some potential problems for you so best to conceal it. And nothing is more concealed than the Pretender cell phone stun gun.



It isn’t just a well concealed weapon of self defense but an extremely effective one to boot. Because what good is having a tool that doesn’t work. The Pretender cell phone stun gun packs a whopping 4.5 million volts of stopping power. That is more than enough to make even the most brazen of attackers quit acting a fool.



One question I get on occasion about these cell phone stun guns is really more of a concern than a question. People often ask me if I’m not afraid that someone won’t accidentally answer one and shock themselves. When I get done trying to stifle a hearty laugh I always tell them no. Not at all. That is because to prevent accidental discharge, two levels of safety have been built in. The safety switch must be in the on position (this will cause an LED warning light to come on) and the trigger button pressed before the unit will operate.



As always I must express my man crush on all things non-lethal. I love the protection that a stun gun can afford and am even more in love with the fact that it can offer this protection without having to harm another. I understand that your concern for a potential attacker is probably none too great but there is a very real chance that someone else does care for that person. Maybe the attacker is just a drug addict who could potentially redeem himself one day and once again become the good person his loved ones knew he could be. There is little chance at redemption for an individual with a bullet hole in their chest. Let’s protect ourselves without question but let’s try to do it without taking the life of another. We can accomplish this with the cell phone stun gun

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In all seriousness how clever was that title? It’s pretty clever. I really impressed myself this time.



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Puzek Security Systems