[Captain Walker]

This doesn't look like a legitimate case for using either a pistol or mace.

It looks like a pi$$ing contest that was only going to end badly.

[windsorknot]

I think that you nailed it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

in colorado pepper sprayvis both legal for defence, and is not considered a weapon.

[mass55th]

"It looks like a pi$$ing contest that was only going to end badly."

Only because a leftist thought that deadly physical force was necessary to prove his manhood.

[caww]

....”This doesn’t look like a legitimate case for using either a pistol or mace......It looks like a pi$$ing contest that was only going to end badly”....

Pretty much, once you wade through the ‘noise’...