Personal Protection Products for your Peace of Mind

There are hundreds of personal protection products on the market today that you can use for your own security and for self defense. These include personal alarm systems, various types of self defense spray and both stun guns and stun batons. The challenge is to choose the best personal protection for your unique needs.

So where do you start? First of all consider when you need protection most. This will be when you feel you may be vulnerable, or at risk. It may be that you live alone and you feel you are not adequately protected in your home. Or perhaps you are a keen jogger or cyclist, or maybe you enjoy walking your dog at night and often do this alone. While a big dog might make you feel secure enough to go walking, a small dog is not likely to add much to your personal safety (unless it snaps and bites ankles!). If you travel alone – day or night – or have to walk some distance to fetch your vehicle after work, or even fetch it from a low-security parking area, then you are vulnerable, even if you haven’t realized it yet.

Happily, there are personal protection products that will meet the needs of different situations. For example, joggers and cyclists can carry a scaled down personal panic alarm of some kind, or a tiny self defense weapon, like a mini stun gun, without it getting in the way. If you walk your dog a lot, you might feel that a pepper spray gun is your best for of self defense. Of course it isn’t only humans who can be the threat, other dogs and bears (depending where you live) can also be highly dangerous, and so an animal repellant gun is another form of protection that will suit this situation. Just remember that the ingredients used to repel animals are not the same as those used in hot pepper spray, so you would then need two devices – and you’ll need to be sure you can access either one instantly if needed.

If you want personal protection products that will raise the alarm if you are attacked or assaulted, then you need to look at the many portable personal safety alarms. Most of these have a pin that you pull to trigger the alarm – and the high-pitched noise they make (anything from about 80 to 130 decibels) is often enough of a deterrent on its own. At very least it will startle your assailant and give you time to escape.

A stun gun or stun baton can be extremely effective in any situation, but then you need to know that these generally require contact to deliver the electrical charge that immobilizes attackers. That is quite a scary thought if you’ve never had any type of personal protection training, so this is yet another possibility to consider. Stun guns come in all shapes and sizes, and a stun gun Taser can be used from further away than most, because these self defense weapons fire projectiles that do the ‘stunning’.

The price tag on different personal protection products does vary, some products being a lot more expensive than others. But you should always consider effectiveness along with price. You never know, your life might just depend upon it.