“...Could explain why I carry pepper spray everywhere I go nowadays, including church....”
That’s a good start. My wife and I prefer 9mm ourselves.
WOW! Where can I get some 9mm pepper spray? ;-) Oh, at the S&W outlet store.
You bring up a good point and I often carry both pepper spray and a weapon since I can deploy the one before the other and maybe neutralize the threat without all the hassle & paperwork afterward, if you get my drift.
We started carrying after learning that a crazy man had invaded our church & called our Polish priest a white supremacist (Fr. K. did not know that word) before being driven forth by the men of the parish. Pepper spray would have been preferable to deadly force in that instance. Wife & I have both our CCWs & 9mm’s, BTW.