Most of you who read this are \u201cgun people.\u201d If self-defense is one of your motivations, you don\u2019t need me to tell you that your protection plan should include intermediate force tools. I suspect most of you already keep pepper spray handy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I bet you ALL know people who would never carry a gun, but are comfortable carrying pepper spray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please read this article<\/a>, and share the link with others. It was written by a friend, Chuck Haggard, who is widely considered to be today\u2019s leading authority on the use of these things. A tip of the hat to another colleague and great trainer, who clued me in on this article in his weekly \u201cknowledge dump<\/a>,\u201d which all of us would be wise to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks, fellas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of you who read this are \u201cgun people.\u201d If self-defense is one of your motivations, you don\u2019t need me to tell you that your protection plan should include intermediate force tools. I suspect most of you already keep pepper spray handy. And I bet you ALL know people who would never carry a gun, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}