In my opinion, stun guns receive a bad rap. For some reason there is a negative connotation associated with the words stun gun and to be honest I don't fully understand it. I think one of the main reasons that the stun gun gets viewed in a negative light has much to do with all of the stupid YouTube videos of morons having stun devices used on them. For example, the 'don't taze me, bro!' video or the drunken buffoon on a tractor being tased while driving drunk on said tractor. Also there are probably times when an authority figure, such as a law enforcement officer, may have been to quick to resort to the use of a stun device when dealing with a potential threat. I wish this wasn't the case but let's be honest, I would much rather have a stun device used on me than a firearm, knife, bat, chair or even a fist. This is in no way condoning the use of excessive or unwarranted force by law enforcement officials or anyone else, I am simply saying that law enforcement needs to have a weapon of some kind and I'd rather they be prone to using a stun device than a firearm.

Stun devices work by emitting a high voltage, low amperage current of electricity to the assailant which works to disrupt the normal neurological impulses being sent from the assailant's brain to his muscles. In other words it renders the attacker helpless by taking control of his or her own body away from them and giving it to the person doing the stunning. This may sound a bit harsh but one needs to look at the alternative to a stun device being used, that being a firearm. Stun guns are by no means a device to be taken lightly but in almost every case they prove to be non-lethal and leave the assailant with no permanent side effects. This is a far cry better than a firearm which can prove to be fatal in a great many cases. Stun devices rarely even require a trip to the hospital whereas a firearm is going to leave a hole in somebody that only a professional should be closing. According to Time magazine there were over 30,000 gun related deaths in the United States last year. I am having some trouble locating an accurate number of stun gun related deaths last year but the numbers I do see all range between numbers less than 50 or.001% of the fatalities that fire arms had caused.

The point I am trying to make here is that although I Affordable Pistols for sale we all lived in a fairytale land where violent criminals did not exist and the need for protecting innocent people was not a concern, we do not live in such a world and we do need to protect ourselves. I would hope that if one does decide to protect themselves or others with a self-defense weapon, that weapon would be a non-lethal and humane alternative to a firearm. The stun gun fits that bill nicely.