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aross@oregon.uoregon.edu (Andrew M Ross) writes:

>In article <1993Sep22.042531.21831@rat.csc.calpoly.edu>, ksmith@theodolite.ae.calpoly.edu (Kirk Smith) writes...
>> 
>>Someone recently posted that California is now allowing private citizens
>>to carry pepper (capisum?) spray.  Does anyone have more info on this?  I'm
>>currently licensed (certified, whatever) to carry Mace, but when I took the
>>course about a year ago (card is good for life) products containing the
>>pepper extract were specifically banned in California.  Do I need to take
>>a new course, or is my certificate for tear gas adaquate for me to upgrade?

>  Who knows what California is up to! Probably they want you to fill out a
>whole lot of new forms. Oregon is much more simple; you can get pepper spray at
>concentrations up to 10% at any pawnshop with no hassle. Far as I know, there
>are no restrictions at all. Wonderful stuff, and you can't kill with it!
>   I wish all the gun nuts would voluntarily give up their firearms and rely
>instead on non-lethal forms of self-defense like this. No more unnecessary
>killings by misunderstanding!

>Andrew Ross  When in doubt, think.

People don't always back off at a distance for pepper spray. My brother
saved a woman's life once with a gun. Got him hauled into the police
station and almost prosecuted but the woman lives today.

I like my gun. It's much more effective than pepper spray and I've only had
to show it once. But that guy backed off at 15 feet. As for
misunderstandings...plenty of dead women around, seems like they
misunderstood something too. Like small people usually lose physical
battles. And guns even the odds. And it's better to be alive, in court or
in jail than dead.

Jackie