A case study as to why we need to be prepared comes straight from today’s local headlines. In Bond Hill a 20 year old “man”, Deshawn Phillips, was arrested yesterday on several charges including robbery, theft, failure to comply with police, reckless driving, driving on a suspended license, and failure to maintain reasonable control of a vehicle. Robbery because the car he was driving and then wrecked was stolen.
What makes matters even more interesting is that he had an arrest warrant for him regarding a violent mugging on July 10th where he violently hit a woman repeatedly in the face in an attempt to get her purse. He finally wrestled the victim to the ground and took her checkbook. He never did get the purse.
I can’t help to think that some Mace or a stun gun would have altered this event tremendously. The robber would be the one with the injuries instead of the law abiding citizen. Sometime I think of prevention as a time saver. So there you are after being attached, assuming you are still alive. You then have to go to a police officer or station to make a report. Then you have to go to court which is a burden on you and your employer. Typically court takes about three hours on average as you have to get parking, get through security, and wait for the case to be called. It is usually never a one time event. It may take three or more appearances to help convict the robber. I did not even mention the time you would waste in the hospital emergency room and recovery time.
The alternative situation is that you use pepper spay, a stun gun, a TASER, or other self defense product to completely disable the robber allowing you time to get away and be safe. This situation does not even take into effect the impact that a family member such as a child would have to deal with after such attach. People have insurance on their home, care, and even life. That insurance is a hell of a lot more expensive than $10 worth of pepper spray that has a shelf life of two years.
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