When I was a teenager and started hanging out with my friends in shopping malls, movie theaters, etc., we all realized that we all needed to have some sort of weapon to protect ourselves.
Back then, I didn’t know anything about pepper spray. I was very naive and protected by my parents. In the 1970s there were no personal computers or the Internet, where you could browse and find self-defense products. I don’t remember who the genius was that first mentioned it or had the idea, but we somehow came up with the idea of using a squirt gun and filling it with ammonia. Well, that was the best thing I had ever heard! What a good idea!
I wasted no time, I went to a store that had toys and I bought an orange water gun. My mom always had ammonia to clean bathrooms, so I poured some into the squirt gun. I made sure it didn’t leak and put it inside my favorite bag. I checked a few hours later to see if the bag reeked of ammonia and luckily it didn’t.
Well that was the beginning of my obsession with self defense products! Now that I think more carefully about that great idea, it really was more dangerous than we thought. We really didn’t know the amount of damage ammonia could cause if it got in your eyes. It could cause permanent damage! I’m glad none of us had to use our ammonia guns, or we could have been hit with a big lawsuit!
Later, as a working adult, I had to use the subway to get to and from work. I felt that I needed to buy a product that was reliable and safe. At that time there was the Internet and I bought my first Stun Gun from the Internet. I immediately felt safe, especially in the winter months around 6 PM, when I got off the train and had to walk to my car, parked in a huge parking lot, around the train station. I lived in the suburbs so I had to drive from the station to my house and those walks to my car were really scary at night. My stun gun went everywhere I went and I especially liked the fact that I could walk my dog on trails in a nearby park and not worry about being attacked.
Last year, I heard that there was an even better product on the market and that it was designed with women in mind. In my quest to get the latest and greatest in self defense products, I purchased what for me has been the ultimate self defense weapon; Taser C2. This baby is perfect. I can shock an attacker up to 15 feet away! This taser is small, has an LED light to see in the dark and a laser so you don’t miss a shot. It also doubles as a stun gun, in case I hit an attacker and someone else comes at me. Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would have a self defense product like the Taser C2. What’s great about this too is that the C2 Taser is non-lethal and does not do any permanent damage, unlike my first weapon, the ammonia gun!
