Can a weapon protect me from violent crime?
The best weapon is between your ears, frankly, thinking and planning and making decisions. Not doing stupid things, going to stupid places at the wrong time. Let's say this bottle here is a can of pepper spray. The fact that someone brings pepper spray - before they get out of the car they're at the state of mind to pick up the pepper spray, open the cap, put their finger on it. Guess what they've done? They've put themselves on high alert. Right? Their paranoia level is up here. So when they get out into that parking lot, they're already wide…full alert, so they don't need this pepper spray anymore. The people who put pepper spray in their bag are the ones who go through life unaware and oblivious to the world around them. Then when something goes down, then they try to reach in their bag or wherever they put their pepper spray and try to get it out in time. Well it's too late and therefore it's not effective. They end up spraying themselves or spraying the inside of their purse more times than not. So it's the same way with any weapon. If you carry anything that's perceived as a weapon, if you arm yourself, you're sort of telling yourself in your brain, that, “I need to be alert.” So that's why I think they're not necessary. If the place you're going to is truly dangerous, truly dangerous, where you need a weapon, you shouldn't be going there, or you shouldn't be going there by yourself, or at the time of day you want to go there.
