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[dmccarty]

Do a search on using wasp spray for self defense. Shoots out 15-20 and legal from what I have read. Mace or pepper spray, target has to be real close. NOT half fanny or daft.

You can buy Mace or Pepper spray that will reach out as a stream but also is available more of a fog/mist for closer use.

Wasp spray is designed to hit a stationary target. The nest.

A thug attacking you is not stationary. Can you hit them with a spray 15-20 feet away? In a wind? While they move. The fog/mist spray's have a much better chance of hitting the target.

If you use a spray YOU almost certainly are going to be effected by said spray. I know I will not go blind with Mace or Pepper spray. I have had both in my eyes. Hurts like heck. Not fun. Pepper and Mace have well not effects on the human body. Wasp spray does not. There is no way to know what Wasp spray is going to do. It might do NOTHING. With Mace and Pepper there will be an effect.

NONE of the above are any way 100% certain to stop or prevent the bad guy. AND the sprayer is almost certainly going to get hit by the spray.

Do YOU want wasp spray in your eyes? If you use it in a self defense situation you are very likely to be hit.

If the person sprayed goes blind from the wasp spray there will be a lawsuit. PD and SO's get sued from using Mace and Pepper but they have deep pockets and they are using Mace and Pepper spray which has been well researched on its effects. Its hard to win a lawsuit about spraying a suspect with an unsafe product when the same product is used by THE AGENCY TO SPRAY ITS OFFICERS. Its a pretty darn good defense.

Preparing to spray someone with a poison that effects the nervous system is asking for a lawsuit. Most people can get Mace and Pepper. Only a few nutter jurisdictions prevent citizens from having Mace or Pepper. I would not want to go to court for spraying someone with Wasp spray in a jurisdiction that bans the use of Mace or Pepper much less anywhere else.

Using Wasp spray as a self defense weapon is asking to loose from the git go.

Later,
Dan

 

[tallyho8]

Besides the foregoing argument, do they make wasp spray in the size cans that will fit in your pocket or purse?

 

[dave1949]

Besides the foregoing argument, do they make wasp spray in the size cans that will fit in your pocket or purse?

How big is your purse? I have seen some big ones.

Wasp spray?, that sounds a bit off, IMO.
Dave.

 

[2manyrocks]

Besides the foregoing argument, do they make wasp spray in the size cans that will fit in your pocket or purse?

If a person wears big enough pants to fit a can of wasp spray in their pants pocket. no one is going to mess with them anyway.

 

[ultrarunner]

A while back I read a story in the local paper of a woman that fought off a mugging by spraying hair spray into her attackers face... nothing was said about a possible lawsuit... only praise for her quick thinking...

 

[grunewald]

You can buy Mace or Pepper spray that will reach out as a stream but also is available more of a fog/mist for closer use.

Wasp spray is designed to hit a stationary target. The nest.

A thug attacking you is not stationary. Can you hit them with a spray 15-20 feet away? In a wind? While they move. The fog/mist spray's have a much better chance of hitting the target.

If you use a spray YOU almost certainly are going to be effected by said spray. I know I will not go blind with Mace or Pepper spray. I have had both in my eyes. Hurts like heck. Not fun. Pepper and Mace have well not effects on the human body. Wasp spray does not. There is no way to know what Wasp spray is going to do. It might do NOTHING. With Mace and Pepper there will be an effect.

NONE of the above are any way 100% certain to stop or prevent the bad guy. AND the sprayer is almost certainly going to get hit by the spray.

Do YOU want wasp spray in your eyes? If you use it in a self defense situation you are very likely to be hit.

If the person sprayed goes blind from the wasp spray there will be a lawsuit. PD and SO's get sued from using Mace and Pepper but they have deep pockets and they are using Mace and Pepper spray which has been well researched on its effects. Its hard to win a lawsuit about spraying a suspect with an unsafe product when the same product is used by THE AGENCY TO SPRAY ITS OFFICERS. Its a pretty darn good defense.

Preparing to spray someone with a poison that effects the nervous system is asking for a lawsuit. Most people can get Mace and Pepper. Only a few nutter jurisdictions prevent citizens from having Mace or Pepper. I would not want to go to court for spraying someone with Wasp spray in a jurisdiction that bans the use of Mace or Pepper much less anywhere else.

Using Wasp spray as a self defense weapon is asking to loose from the git go.

Later,
Dan

Wasp spray is an OPTION. Never wrote NOT to use mace or pepper spray. My comment about the wasp spray it for an emergency situation. A shotgun is also used in an emergency situation. Sorry, didn't know anyone would get so upset, geez.

 

[dmccarty]

I certainly I am not upset.

You said

Use wasp spray for self defense. Do a search.

I don't see the word OPTION.

If you happen to be in your garage/barn working and some thug walks in with a knife and you spray the son of a dog with a handy can of wasp spray more power to you. I certainly would not expect there to be a legal problem. But to carry with the intent to spray someone with Wasp spray when there are better products on the market is just daft for the reasons I listed.

Look at it this way. Should Joe buy his loved ones Pepper Spray to carry for self defense or Wasp Spray? Which is the better defense.

Is Wasp Can A better than Wasp Can B for defending against thugs? I don't know. I ain't trying. When I buy my loved ones a defense spray it is Pepper Spray, roughly 5% OC in alcohol. Easy. Cheap. Effective. Tested for the application. Safe. Works a good deal of the time.

Later,
Dan