Females: Laundry List of College Defensive Items

[kBob]

When my NRA local club was developing non firearm classes for women over a decade ago (we won an award from NRA for the work and classes) we found that most women found a 2 C-cell maglite to be much more useful than the D cell model or the AA varieties.

The thinner profile not only fits their hands better but provides a thinner striking area. We found holdingit with the fist nearest the Head of the light or evne partially around the head of the light in a hammer grip with the rest of the light protruding from the thumb side of the hand allowed basically untrained folks to generate a good bit of power for your typical over hand or side handed blow.

My wife works in a "Gun Free Zone" and as she is in a large building she keeps a handy C-cell maglite in her right top desk drawer.....in case the electricity goes out, of course.

I noticed in the latest Dillon Blue Book they advertise the COld Steel "Sharkie" that appears to be a Sharpie style black marker. It has a body four times as thick as the more common marker and of glass reinforced plastic to make it more usful as a Yawara stick.

October 2008 Blue Press
Page 55
Product # F93-16326 for 5.99 each.

Buy a few as shiping is higher than the unit cost.


Dillon also carries the Stream light Stylus flaslights. One is the diameter of a common ball point but longer ( but uses the sometimes hard to find AAAA batteries) and the other is about the diameter (but longer) as a marker. Don't know what batteries it takes. I carried one of the thinner models for a bit over a year as a less leathal option when carrying a fire arm or as an adjuct to a Spyderco Endura. If forced to use the knife for self defence the Stylus provided a means of putting the off hand to good use.

I would not suggest a lady carry anything that might frighten a jury on campus. A brass knucks key chain no matter how cute it may be is going to be played up as brass knucks. A hairbrush or comb with a blade in it is a concealed weapon, even if it is plastic. Somewhere out in the shop I have a few of the "just becaus e this was made to be knucks or a dirk, surely they are OK for the good guys to use" stuff that I used to use in the tactics and attitude ortion of the NRA Personal Protection course before it was updated and split into two classes. If you really want to chance a felony weapons charge, why carry crap? Me I figure my wife and her friends are mor at dange as inmates at the locl womens prson than carrying obvious to a jury concealed weapons.....except those that have CWLs, the training and the ability to carry guns.

While I have sat on a jury along with the Dean of a local post grad school, there were some folks on the jury I would not trust to understand the need to escape a burning building.
Think how those people will react to an attourney discribing and showing the "Weapon" your friend used to "horribly mutilate" and "terrorize" his poor cleint.

Look at how she may use items that are also of common use.

BTW as for the steel pens and such, has anyone else ever witnessed a common #2 wooden pencil driven completely through an attackers forearm? Amazingly he stopped his attack immediatly and began screaming for medical aid. High school kids do the strangest things. I think the much harder than cedar grafite pencils, aluminum, brass, steel or even hard plastic pens might do a bit more damage than some would guess.

-Bob Hollingsworth

 

[rcmodel]

I recommended the C-cell Maglight in post #16 because it is easier for smaller hands to grip the the D-cell models.

But I recommended the longer 4-C-cell model

It makes a much better club then the 2-cell!

rcmodel

 

[Loosedhorse]

Women have to deal with...

things we guys don't. There are various categories of rapist; a couple of these would simply be encouraged by the sight of a woman (especially a slight woman--criminals don't tend to pick people who they think they can't beat up) trying to fend them off with a flashlight.

In fact, even if they presented a gun to some violent offenders, the response would be, "Now, give me that gun before you hurt yourself." A weapon is nothing; a weapon in the hands of a determined defender is close to everything.

Be aware of the FBI statistics that say that resisting an attack with anything besides a gun INCREASES the victims chance of injury (those stats don't usually include OC spray, so we may have a "data hole" there). Knives or knife-stand-ins like screwdrivers (in the hands of the untrained and /or undedicated) are particularly dicey as defensive tools.

Also be aware that a screwdriver or hammer is fine in your room--don't try to carry them! Unless you're a carpenter on the way to a job, that's a weapon.

I guess what I'm saying is, if you can't carry a gun, transfer to University of Utah, where you can; if can't transfer, use OC; if no OC--get yourself some real good unarmed defensive training, a small bright flashlight, and fast track shoes. Deer are unarmed, so they've learned to run fast.

 

[relentlessknives.com]

Well....the type of attack certainly has lots to do with what is used to protect one's self.
Also, becoming a victim simply because it may be against the law to have a weapon is not a good idea.More often than not, a law abiding citizen who carries a screwdriver for personal protection, will not be the one who is found to be using it under circumstances other than a desperate situation, at which time, the Officer who responds has the option of discretion, and then there are jurys who may just understand your daughter not wanting to be brutally raped and murdered.
I like a legal size little knife for last ditch personal protection. The knife in the photo carefully applied to the temple of the attacker may do the trick.
A 2 or 2 1/2' blade is even legal in CA. and could save your life.
Also, being unarmed and submitting to the scum who would put a law abiding citizen in harms way is a good way to experiance a horrible death.
It's better to die standing than live on your knee's.
Just my humble opinion, and I spent 20 years as a police officer.