15 Actionable Tips for Staying Safe During Times of Civil Unrest

Bearing Arms ^ | 3 Feb, 2017 | Brian Lenney

[MtnClimber]

Since the Donald entered the White House, America has gone from bad to worse as far as violence goes. The rise of mob violence, riots, and outright targeting of people by domestic terrorist groups – like Antifa, Communists, Black Lives Matter, and other Soros-funded radical far-left groups – isn’t to be taken lightly. We saw Berkeley blow up in riots because Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak there. We saw mobs rioting in Portland. We saw Washington D.C. trashed at the Women’s March and inauguration riots, and we saw violent leftists attack people at a College Republicans event at NYU where Gavin Mcinnes was speaking. Essentially, we’ve seen every major urban city on the both coasts explode with violence. Until these jobless, bandanna wearing, woman-beating losers get arrested, America’s urban centers will continue to see violence as they continue to rage against freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and well…just plain freedom. Just look at some of the action from the past few days and weeks:

[Titan Magroyne]

>>> What about a taser? Are they effective for a woman to use to gain time to run away?

In addition to what another FReeper posted to you, that one-time use of the shooting prongs assumes that both prongs reach skin - situational as to how many layers of clothing are worn by the assailant, plus a good shooting angle. That’s why you often don’t see it deployed by police in a confrontation unless there’s already a ring of LEOs surrounding the unruly perp, all set to take turns in case the first taser shot misses or gets pulled out before rendering the bad guy non-combatant.

And as to the hand-held with contact prongs, you’re already at grabbing range before you can use it. Perhaps not a bad last resort so long as the assailant never sees it coming, but what if his first contact is violently destructive?

A taser is better than nothing, so I don’t want to disparage your self-defense tools. Just understand their limits. To me the Number One most effective tool is situational awareness, listening to your instincts & acting thereon to avoid a hinky situation/area in the first place.