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Hey there, what's going on warriors? Jeff here from warlife.com

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and the Warlife Academy. Welcome to podcast episode

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number 454. You

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and I both know that you never really

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know when a criminal is going to attack. And

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so the true warrior is never unarmed.

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But not every threat is going to require

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you to pull out your Master Blaster 5000 from its

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holster and start sending rounds

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down range. Now it could be a panhandler

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who's not displaying a weapon but maybe

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getting a little bit too close after you've already stated

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that you don't have any change. It could be a belligerent

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parking lot bully who's twice your size with his finger

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in your face trying to teach you a lesson because you

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grabbed this spot that he was waiting

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for. Or it might just be drunk Uncle Albert

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at the family picnic. Maybe he's had five too

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many and he wants to throw down because he got left out of daddy's

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will. There are a lot of different cases

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where a firearm or other lethal weapon won't

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be justified or maybe not even available.

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Which is why it's always best to have some form

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of less lethal self-defense tool that

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you can access for these types of situations. Now

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on this week's show I'm going to share with you my top seven

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list of the best less lethal

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self-defense weapons that you should consider for

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everyday carry. Now I know a few of

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these are going to surprise you. I'm hoping to really give you

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a new realistic perspective on

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now let's talk tactics. Tactical

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firearms training, urban survival,

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close quarters combat. Welcome

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to the show that helps you better prepare

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for any threat you may face in your

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role as a protector and

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a patriot. This is the Warrior

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Life Podcast.

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and WarLife Academy. Okay,

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you and I both know that the best self-defense

2:04

weapon that you can use against a violent

2:06

attacker, especially if they're armed,

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is going to be a firearm. So

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for home defense, you have your options

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of all kinds of different firearms that you have there. If

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you're carrying concealed, like a lot of us do,

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your everyday carry weapon, your everyday

2:21

carry firearm,

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that's gonna be your best weapon against

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somebody who you can demonstrate

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to a court if you have to, actually

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plans on delivering deadly

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force to you. So you are legally justified

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to send back deadly force.

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However, as

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you should also know, that

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is not always going to legally be the case.

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For your own self-defense, your

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firearm, if you do carry, or if

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you do personally own a firearm for

2:56

home defense, if that

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is the one thing that you're counting on,

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then you're overlooking a lot of different

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factors that can make that the worst weapon

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for you to use for your own personal defense.

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Part of that is because if all

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you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So

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if your go-to is I have a gun,

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and that's all I'm going to need, and

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you're in a situation where you are not legally justified

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to even draw your weapon or show your

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weapon,

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then you could potentially be in the

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line of fire for, figuratively speaking,

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for a legal problem

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that you could have, felony brandishing.

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It could be, you might not

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be justified to even show it, let alone

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use it. So

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unfortunately when these attacks

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happen, or if you are confronted

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by somebody who you feel threatened by,

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but you can't demonstrate to a court that, you

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felt like your life was in danger. Maybe

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it's somebody who's angry and shouting at you

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at a,

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in a parking lot. You might

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be very, very afraid of that person. They can be twice

4:03

your size. But

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if you draw your weapon, or if in your mind,

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you're like, how am I going to, what

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am I gonna do against this person? Like they've

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got their finger in my face and they're threatening

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me and I'm in the parking lot and everybody's around. You

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might feel very threatened at that time.

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So your brain might just go into,

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how do I defend myself against this person?

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I need to get out of this situation. Whether it is

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even embarrassment or you

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do feel threatened by this person or they're

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threatening bodily harm but don't show

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some sort of intent and you can't demonstrate

4:38

that intent or vocalize that

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intent legitimately

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to a court, then

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your brain might go to draw your weapon.

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You might get to a point where you're so angry,

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you're so bewildered, you're so afraid that

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you draw your weapon as

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an instinctive response when you

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might not legally be justified to be able

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to do so.

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You might not think that that will happen right now

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but right now you're

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likely not watching this and in the middle of

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having somebody who's twice your size with their finger

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in your face. So the

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legal side is one way that your firearm

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might not be the best self-defense weapon for

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you.

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The second thing is that the first

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rule of gun fighting is that you

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have to be able to have

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a gun. We always say that, like

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the first rule of gun fighting is have a gun. Well,

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you might not be able to get to your gun. Most

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attacks do happen within a very short

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space, one to nine feet. Over

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half of this from an

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older report from the FBI,

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over half of the police shootings

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that led to death happened

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within one to five feet. It was

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zero to five feet. It was right up in that space.

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And so for you, most

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of these attacks are gonna happen either as an

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escalated. argument, something that got out

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of hand, such as a parking lot

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argument over a parking space or a road

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rage or you'd dent somebody's car or whatever,

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right? Or

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it's going to be a close quarters ambush

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because criminals aren't that stupid that they're going to

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jump at you from 21 feet away and they're

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going to, you know, they're not looking

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for a fight. They want to just ambush you, get

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the crime over with, get their stuff and get the hell out of there so that

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nobody sees them and they're not caught and

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have to go to jail. So that's

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not going to give you a lot of space to be able to just draw

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your weapon. No matter how fast you are down

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at the range, if you can even

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draw at the range,

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you're most likely that person

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might be able to, is going to respond and stop

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you from being able to draw your weapon or you're going

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to fumble through it because of the adrenaline factor

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and all these different things that are going to, that are going

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to play as factors there, right? So all

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of these things, and there's, there's other options also,

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but,

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or other reasons, but you need to understand

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that you need to have a backup option

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that is less than lethal. I

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say less than lethal because almost every

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tool can be lethal

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in some way,

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but you have to have some other option for

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your own personal defense of

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legal justification for being able to use a

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weapon, but also

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if the situation does not call for it, you

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don't use it, you don't get any legal, legal problems

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there, but also you might need a less than

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lethal version either to be able to

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get yourself out of the area, just be

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able to get this person away from

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you.

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It might be a situation where somebody's drunk,

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you're at a party, you're at a festival somewhere,

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and they're giving you a hard time, but it's not something

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that you just break out old Betsy and start blasting

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away. There's a lot of different

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reasons why you would need to get this

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person away from you and you would need a less than lethal

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version of something, of a self-defense

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tool.

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What are the best non-lethal

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or less than lethal self-defense weapons

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that you should carry on your body?

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Well, I have seven

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less than lethal options that you should

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be carrying or consider carrying

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for your everyday carry. Now

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I'm going to go over these top seven. All of them

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are less than lethal,

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except for only one is

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considered non-lethal, I would say. And

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it's one that a lot of people don't really think about as

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a weapon, but it's actually one of the most

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effective self-defense weapons that you could

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possibly have.

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That's coming right up.

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So let me go ahead and go through these top

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seven of the less

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than lethal self-defense weapons, also

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give you some tips along the way for pros and cons,

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but also some ways that you might consider

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carrying them as well.

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All right, so the first one, and I just have to say this,

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and this might be a no duh moment for you,

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but first and foremost, it is going

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to be your hands. Now

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if you are in a close quarter situation where

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you are ambushed by somebody or it's an escalated

8:58

argument, and it is a lethal situation

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where you have to get to a firearm because

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this person has demonstrated in

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some way that you can articulate to a court

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that your life was in jeopardy, if

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I need to get to my concealed handgun, most

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likely I'm going to have to use my hands to be able to get there. And

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that's one of the biggest mistakes that I ever see

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among people who carry concealed is that

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they just assume that you

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are going to get to your firearm.

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Dishes are you are going to have to fight to your gun,

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and you have to know how to do that. Unfortunately,

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too many firearms owners, especially

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if they're concealed carry, don't

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put as much time and training into

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the one skill that most likely you're going to have to

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use, which is going to be your hands.

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You have a much higher risk of having to use

9:44

your hands than you are your firearm, but we put

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more emphasis on our firearms training

9:48

than our hands-to-hand training. Now it

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does not mean you have to be either a

9:53

Navy SEAL or a martial arts

9:55

expert, but there are a few moves that you

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have to be able to use.

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easy to master, they use gross motor movements,

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they're very, very effective, even against people

10:04

who are bigger and stronger than you, just

10:07

to be able to gain that space between you and the

10:09

attacker so that you can get to your

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weapon. So, one of the things to talk about

10:13

in our defeat larger attackers program

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is just being able to use your hands and

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be able to, where the head goes, the body will follow,

10:20

just being able to use your hands and get up in their

10:22

face, push them off, is going to give you

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that distance. It puts them off balance, it

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gains you the distance that you need to be able to get to your

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firearm. That's just one example of

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some very, very simple

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martial arts self

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defense moves, if you will, that

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will help you to be able to get to your gun. But you

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do need to have some sort of hand

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to hand training, no matter what type

10:44

of weapon that you're using, because no matter what you're

10:46

going to use against somebody, you still have to be able

10:48

to defend against them and also launch your

10:50

attack. And a lot of these weapons you can

10:54

use very effectively, but they're not going to work by themselves.

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You still might need to enter in to a

10:59

close quarters situation with them. You might need

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to know your distances. These are all things that you learn

11:04

in different hand to hand systems that are out

11:06

there. You learn about the kicking distance and

11:07

the close quit and the grappling distance and

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what you can do in those areas. Well, the same thing applies

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when you're using self defense weapons.

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All right, so first and foremost, hands are

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number one on the list here. So

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the next one we'll talk about is your flashlight.

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For those of you that are watching, I'm going to use Bob

11:26

here instead of using it on my personal carry, but

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these are weapons that I carry with

11:30

me for everyday carry. So I

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would say that I use my flashlight probably

11:34

more than any other everyday carry tool that

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I ever carry on myself. Now there are

11:38

a ton of different tactical flashlights,

11:41

if you will, out there. Personally, I've used

11:43

a lot of them. The one that I like the best

11:45

was actually given to me for a review.

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It's by Thrunite. This is the

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BSSV5.

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I did a review on this on our YouTube channel.

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I have received no compensation other than them

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sending me one of the flashlights. But

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since I got this, I...

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I love this flashlight. I use

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it more than any other tool that I have. This and

12:04

the small knife that I carry, our escort

12:06

knife that I carry on my belt. But

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I use this a lot because, and it has so

12:11

many great features to it.

12:13

It has a firelight version, or

12:16

a firefly version so that it's very, very low

12:18

light. I might use this for sneaking

12:20

out of the bedroom in the morning when I don't wanna

12:23

wake up my girlfriend. I just wanna get to where my clothes

12:25

are. If I lost something, I don't have to have this blinding

12:27

light. I like the firefly,

12:30

even help me like in concerts, be able to get to my seat,

12:33

things like that where I'm not disturbing a bunch of people. But it also

12:36

has a turbo version

12:38

on the tail cap

12:39

that frankly, it's like a 747 is landing

12:41

in your face. I've

12:44

used this thing like at concerts

12:47

where I'm in the nosebleed section, and

12:49

the person up on stage will say, hey, use your,

12:52

let me see your flashlights. And I take

12:54

it out, and you can see pretty much

12:56

everybody in the stadium just kinda look over and it's like,

12:58

what the hell is that? Because it looks like a 747

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landing.

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So

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I like this because you can blind an attacker, but

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it also has an attack bezel ring

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on it that you can use for striking. So

13:11

it will, you can use it for

13:13

striking the face, other targets there, but

13:15

it works very, it's very easy to use, very

13:17

effective. But a flashlight is a

13:20

good self-defense weapon as well, both

13:22

from a physical standpoint, from striking

13:25

as well as being able to blind somebody, even

13:27

with the strobe function there. Having this

13:30

out, it's very preventative because as you're going through

13:32

a parking lot, you can use it and

13:34

you look like you are more, like

13:38

you're more alert. So a criminal who

13:40

is waiting for somebody, waiting for a victim in ambush

13:42

might hold off until they can get

13:45

somebody who is a better

13:47

target, an easier target. So I do

13:49

like this a lot. The other thing I like about the

13:51

through night one is that the bezel ring screws

13:54

off. So going through TSA, I

13:57

travel a lot. So if I go through TSA, I can...

13:59

take it off, I just put it on my finger like it's a ring, and

14:03

that way they don't pull out the flashlight and say, hmm, this

14:05

thing looks like you could use it to strike somebody. So

14:08

flashlight is number two on the list.

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Now number three is going

14:13

to be a stun gun. So

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this is something that you can carry on your person. If

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you are a woman, you can put it in your purse. We

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have a compartment for our Strat Pack.

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So for everyday carry, I also do

14:28

have an

14:29

off-body carry position

14:31

for a lot of different weapons. Strat Pack

14:33

I use because it is, and we designed

14:35

it as a sling pack. It's very easy to get to

14:38

everything that you need without taking it off. There's

14:40

a lot of different reasons for it, but one of the

14:42

pockets up here we either use for comms,

14:45

but you can also use it for the stun

14:49

gun. So I like stun guns a lot. Now

14:51

there's a difference between a stun gun and a taser.

14:54

Taser is what you see that looks very much

14:57

like a firearm, and it will shoot out a projectile

15:00

that's attached to the wires, and those two prongs

15:03

go into the attacker hopefully,

15:05

and

15:06

it

15:10

will immobilize them. So it sends millions

15:14

of volts through their body, and it will incapacitate

15:16

them. With a stun gun, it's not like

15:19

a taser. It's not going to immobilize

15:21

them. It's not going to stay attached. It's essentially

15:23

two prongs on

15:25

a small device, and just

15:27

by turning this thing on, it can

15:32

be very intimidating. You can use this

15:34

to scare somebody off. Even

15:38

animals, like my dog hates this. He's

15:40

walking around right now, but

15:43

this can be very effective. It can also malfunction,

15:45

so this might not have

15:47

all of the juice that you need it to have.

15:50

You can recharge it up. There are rechargeable ones. There

15:53

are ones with batteries in it. The batteries might not be very

15:55

strong anymore. This

15:57

one I like because it does have... It

16:00

just plugs into the wall.

16:02

I don't even know which one is where I got

16:04

this one. But this is one that, I mean,

16:06

and I keep a bunch of these, like in my vehicle,

16:08

I have two different stun

16:10

guns. One is more like a cattle prod, the other one is

16:12

a smaller flashlight version, but I do like

16:15

those because they work very well for carjacking

16:17

or if you got homeless people. Trying to get in your,

16:19

you know, just kind of get in your car, just begging or

16:21

whatever, you can just kind of zap them. But this is just

16:23

going, but it is designed for close quarters contact

16:26

with this person. So that does mean

16:28

that you're gonna be up close and personal. So

16:31

this might work effectively

16:32

if somebody is on top of you, you need to get them

16:35

off of you. You can pull this out,

16:37

just turn it on very quickly, stick it in

16:40

their side and jab them. Now it doesn't always

16:42

work because if they're heavily clothed,

16:44

it might not actually have

16:47

much of an impact on them and

16:49

also if they are either drunk

16:51

on drugs or just a badass, sometimes,

16:54

I mean, you can kind of grind through it

16:56

a little bit. But then also it's really

16:58

comes down to these little prongs on top

17:00

and those can get

17:02

bent, pushed away, turned around,

17:04

knocked off, and then you don't

17:06

have a voltage coming out of

17:08

there. But that is an option that you have

17:11

there for a self defense

17:13

weapon.

17:15

Okay, the next one that we're gonna talk about is going

17:17

to be pepper gel.

17:21

So, and you'll notice that a lot of these

17:23

are weapons,

17:24

if you will, or self defense tools

17:27

that police use. And there's a reason, the same

17:29

reason that you would perhaps use them,

17:31

that

17:32

not every situation that a

17:34

police officer shows up to is gonna require lethal

17:37

force. And so they need to show something

17:40

that, or be able to use the right tool

17:42

for the right job. And so it might be a less than lethal one.

17:44

So obviously they have pepper spray

17:47

on them. Now I do recommend a pepper gel just

17:49

from the standpoint of if there's other people

17:51

around, including you, and you go

17:53

to use pepper spray, it

17:56

might

17:57

come back, the wind might blow it back at you, now you're

17:59

immobilized.

17:59

And now if you're trying to drive away or run

18:02

away, you might be incapacitated

18:04

to some extent also.

18:06

Also with the,

18:09

just with pepper spray, there are some cons

18:11

to it. So if the person has glasses on, it might not

18:13

be as impactful. Again,

18:15

the spray, if they see it coming, they might just

18:18

hold their breath, close their eyes, put their head down,

18:20

and now if you miss them, it's going to

18:22

be an issue also. But for

18:24

anybody that has ever been in security

18:27

or in law enforcement, you have to

18:29

be sprayed with it in order for you to know what

18:31

it feels like. And it just sucks.

18:34

It sucks for a very long time. And

18:36

police officers, I mean, they

18:39

can attest to this when they're booking somebody, but

18:41

also if like they're grappling with somebody

18:44

and their partner pulls out

18:46

pepper spray and hits the

18:48

person,

18:49

sometimes the other officer is getting hit also.

18:51

And so now all of us, I mean, asking the office, I mean, I'm

18:53

sure there's a lot of officers out there, I'd love to hear your stories

18:56

about pepper spray. Also,

18:58

it's not foolproof

19:00

against people. So some people might be able to grind through

19:03

it. You might be able, I'm sure there's videos

19:05

online you can find where people have just been able to

19:08

just overcome the effects of it and just keep

19:10

pushing past and still coming after you. So

19:13

even if their eyes are burning and they can't do that, if

19:15

they can touch you, if they can get to you, they might

19:18

have more adrenaline going and their attack might

19:20

be even more forceful. So it's

19:22

not

19:23

a given, but it does give you a little bit more distance

19:26

also.

19:27

So there are some some pros to this as

19:29

well. All right, so that's for

19:31

the pepper. Now, one

19:34

that is that most people do not carry,

19:36

but of course, law enforcement does, is

19:39

a an expandable baton.

19:41

Now with all of these weapons for

19:43

self defense, you want to check your local laws because

19:46

not every place even allows you. I think California

19:48

is the only state that doesn't even know, surprise,

19:50

surprise. That doesn't even allow you to own

19:52

a, tell us like

19:55

any sort of baton that you're going to use that's

19:57

intended to be a

19:58

baton and you might.

20:00

This could be anything from a full-size

20:03

club that you have, or it could be

20:07

a telescopic expandable baton like

20:09

this one. This is a very small one, if

20:11

you're watching here. It's a very small one,

20:14

and you don't need a full-size

20:17

one like a police officer does,

20:19

but these are really good weapons. Now, I will tell you that

20:22

if you had the option, if I said to you,

20:25

if I'm gonna use one self-defense tool on you, it's

20:27

going to be either a stun gun, it's

20:29

gonna be pepper spray, or it's gonna be a

20:31

baton, which would you choose? Like,

20:33

okay, well, if I'm gonna get hit with

20:36

one thing, I'd prefer it be this, because it's

20:38

not gonna be as damaging. A lot

20:40

of people would say that

20:41

they would rather get hit with like,

20:45

that would be the, or I guess the most

20:47

effective, they would think would be

20:49

like a stun gun, because a lot of people don't understand

20:51

what the stun gun actually is. Anybody

20:54

that's ever been sprayed with pepper spray or seen somebody

20:56

knows that that sucks for a very long time. So somebody

20:58

might think that, well, at least I can defend against an

21:01

expandable baton. But I can tell you that if

21:03

you are actually hit with all three of them, the

21:06

expandable baton is gonna be the one that you are not

21:08

gonna have,

21:10

you're not gonna want to have

21:12

on the next strike. If I say, okay, now

21:14

if I gave you a choice, what's gonna, which one don't

21:16

you want the most? It's gonna be the expandable baton. If any of

21:18

that made sense, right? But with just a flick of the

21:20

wrist, these things come out, and this is

21:23

going to give you, I mean,

21:24

unlike pepper spray, which you can run out of, they

21:26

might be able to put their eyes, close

21:28

it and put their head down. With an expandable baton,

21:31

you're gonna be able to strike them over and

21:33

over again. So it's not gonna run out of ammo,

21:35

if you will.

21:37

And it's gonna give you a lot of different

21:39

options here. So I do like the expandable

21:41

baton, but again, you really have to

21:44

check your local laws and see if

21:46

you're allowed to own one and if you are allowed to

21:48

carry one and what it takes to be able to carry

21:50

one. At some states, you have to be able, you have to have a concealed

21:53

carry firearm license, and then you

21:55

can carry a baton. Some don't allow you at all. Some

21:57

allow it just at home or in between your home.

22:00

which might be your

22:02

home and your vehicle and your boat, but

22:04

you can have it in between there. So there's a lot of little

22:07

loopholes there that you're going to want to know about.

22:09

But an expandable baton is something

22:11

I hardly see anybody actually carrying these.

22:14

And you can carry it off body carry, or you can put

22:16

it on your person as well.

22:18

Okay, one that a lot of people do talk

22:20

about, and I'm going to just, our

22:23

strat pack here, turn

22:25

this around. And one

22:27

that a lot of people do talk about is

22:29

going to be a tactical pen.

22:32

So this is going to be weapon number six. With

22:34

a tactical pen, I can tell you that if you have a true

22:37

tactical pen, it is,

22:39

yes, they're effective, right? It's basically

22:41

an impact weapon that

22:44

is not a knife, but is

22:46

still going to give you the ability to strike somebody

22:49

with it. Now, not all tactical pens are created

22:51

equal. And if it's a true tactical pen, like

22:53

you buy online, nowadays you can get them for

22:55

free plus shipping. Be very careful

22:58

about what you're getting as the, nothing's

23:00

free, right? But

23:02

those will typically be confiscated

23:04

if you do take them traveling. I

23:07

told a story a while back, listened

23:09

to a guy, I was at the airport and he had this very,

23:11

he spent over, I think he was like $34, $35 on his tactical

23:14

pen. It

23:17

was taken away, boom, like that from TSA, because

23:20

you're not allowed to have those there. And

23:22

also a lot of them are just not very well designed

23:24

for self-defense. They'll have this glass breaker

23:27

carbide tip on top of it. But

23:29

the best way to use a tactical

23:31

pen is where you can get your thumb on top of

23:33

it and be able to reinforce

23:36

your strikes.

23:37

Now I have the stealth tactical pen.

23:40

It looks like a regular pen, but

23:42

it is super strong. It's made out of aircraft

23:45

aluminum, but it's got a very thick design

23:47

to it. So you can, I mean, it's very, it's heavier

23:49

than another pen of its size. It

23:51

doesn't have a whole bunch of little gizmos

23:54

and gadgets on it, but it's very, it fits

23:56

very well in the hand. It's easy to

23:58

grip, has a flat.

23:59

flat top

24:00

for it so that you can strike with it.

24:03

The clip on it does not have sharp edges on it

24:05

so as you're stabbing you're not cutting up your hand. That's

24:08

important because if you go to get to your

24:10

weapon after being able to gain

24:12

some distance maybe with your tactical pen because that's what

24:14

you can get to earlier or you

24:17

can get to first and then be able to get to your handgun. I want

24:20

my hand where I don't have like slippery blood on it. I can get

24:22

to my weapon and be able to draw it. So

24:25

I do like the tactical pen. Very, very effective.

24:27

Now for carrying it you might have it on your pocket.

24:30

You can put it into for us

24:32

like with the Strack Pack for example we have a special

24:35

loop because the Strack Pack you know whatever

24:37

you're using for off body carry if you're using that it

24:40

has a hidden compartment inside of it just for

24:42

a well for anything that you want but it has

24:45

it's a hidden handgun compartment so it's designed

24:47

for that. But this gives me something to grab

24:49

onto so if I am going to get to my weapon

24:51

and I swing my Strack the Sling Pack around

24:54

I can just grab I don't have to I

24:56

can just grab the pen basically and just pull.

24:59

It's velcro I just reach inside it's

25:01

right in my it's right in my real

25:03

estate right in front there and I can just get

25:05

to my handgun right there. So

25:07

it also acts as

25:09

an intermediary to be able to get to

25:12

my other weapon as well. Ok

25:15

so tactical pen is weapon number six.

25:17

Now let me get you to self defense weapon

25:20

number seven here

25:22

which can be accessed on ours

25:25

it can either be accessed in front or if

25:27

you flip it around

25:29

it'll still be accessible as well

25:31

and that is going to be a personal alarm.

25:34

Now I always carry I've tried carrying this

25:36

in a lot of different places I like

25:39

it in front of me especially

25:41

on my everyday carry my

25:43

Sling Pack

25:44

because and this is I like it right

25:47

at the center of my chest because if

25:49

I'm going to go draw my weapon if you're the type of person

25:51

that brings your hand up as

25:53

you're drawing so

25:55

if you're drawing your weapon you're

25:57

bringing your hand up somewhere to cover you whether

25:59

it's for some reason. self-defense or whatever, but it's right there.

26:02

So a personal, why I like

26:04

the personal alarm, and the only non-lethal

26:06

version, is because

26:09

criminals do not want

26:11

to have attention brought to them. They don't want to get

26:13

caught by anybody. And with

26:15

the personal alarm, it has a high

26:18

decibel alarm when you simply

26:20

pull the pin on it. But the one

26:22

that we have, we have Six-Rock

26:24

Tactical, we have one of our own

26:27

here, has a high decibel alarm, but it also has

26:29

a strobe light. So a lot of times, if somebody,

26:31

whether it's a vehicle that the alarm's

26:33

going off, you're kind of looking around like, where is that coming

26:36

from? I can't really tell, because the sound

26:38

is going to,

26:39

is going to echo around. Same thing goes with personal

26:42

alarms. If you pull it, people might not know

26:44

where that is.

26:46

If you pull this, it has an LED

26:50

strobe that goes with it as well. So

26:52

one of the reasons why I like it in front of me is that if I'm

26:54

struggling with somebody, I just pull the thing,

26:57

it goes off, but the strobe light is

26:59

going to blind them. So it's facing away from me, it's going to

27:01

blind them. It surprises them with

27:04

that shrill sound, and that

27:06

is going to attract attention. So they

27:08

might just high tail it out of the area. It could

27:10

even be a situation where I'm struck, I'm

27:13

shot, or I am cut.

27:15

I start to lose consciousness. And

27:18

maybe I'm expecting, like hopefully 911 has

27:21

been called and somebody's going to

27:23

let them know, hey, I think I hear something over there

27:25

or whatever. If I pull that, then even

27:27

if I'm unconscious, the strobe light and the sound

27:30

is going to bring in a first

27:32

responders, all right? But I love

27:34

the personal alarm for that purpose.

27:37

Now, the other thing is that I can fight while

27:39

it is hanging off of me. I can still

27:41

use my hands, I can still get to my gun. It's

27:43

still providing all of the other benefits that

27:45

I need from this weapon to be able to get

27:47

to it. And this is something that even if you have

27:50

a spouse or someone who is

27:52

not very aggressive,

27:53

they're not the type of person that

27:56

would typically fight back or would...

27:59

Maybe they're smaller, they would have a hard time fighting

28:02

back. This is something it's not, like

28:04

a personal alarm is something that is not going

28:06

to be intimidating to them, or

28:08

they don't even need training for it. You just

28:11

need to be able to pull it, and the alarm

28:13

goes off. And again, I don't see

28:15

a lot of people using this. I think that a lot of people

28:18

that, especially men that carry a

28:20

concealed weapon, think that they

28:22

don't need something like a personal alarm. In fact,

28:24

typically don't think they need any of these. But a personal

28:26

alarm, I would say, is one of the best self-defense

28:28

weapons,

28:30

in quotes, that you could possibly

28:32

use or give somebody as a gift as well.

28:35

So those are my top seven self-defense weapons

28:38

that are not a gun. But

28:40

I'd like to hear from you also. What are some of the pros and cons

28:42

of some of the weapons that we went over? And

28:45

then also, what are some other ones maybe that you

28:47

carry or have access to or suggest

28:49

to people that I've not covered?

28:52

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