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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buy her a pepper spray.[/quote]

Nope. It can be used against her.[/quote]

This is one of the dumbest, most patronizing myths out there but somehow it persists. “Don’t resist and you won’t get hurt.”  Nonsense. A properly trained person with pepper spray will have deployed it before the assailant knows it’s there. The people who have their weapons taken away are the ones who wave them around like a magic talisman, but without the willingness and training to use them.

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This is a child of eight. Not a "properly trained" teen or adult. And I'll say again what I said above: Self-defense trainer, teaching teen girls and adult women actual physical techniques, was extremely against sprays of any kind.

And PP, you wrongly equated "spray can be used against you" with "Don't resist and you won't get hurt." That poster never said "Don't resist and you won't get hurt." He or she ONLY said sprays are too risky. You completely created the rest out of your own mind.

This is all why teens and adults should take a reputable self-defense class with a strong emphasis on how to get AWAY from assailants and how to use whatever is at hand, and especially your own body, to defend yourself -- only if you cannot escape. No one said "don't resist" but for certain, the goal is to escape first and foremost. [/quote]

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