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Originally Posted by wedge_donovan
Although I am curious if the charge would conduct through me to her if we are hinged at the time?
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Don't quote me on this but I think by touching someone who's being tazed, it is possible to conduct electricity yourself. I'm not sure how much or if it makes a difference between a tazer gun and a pronged device.
Also, while I'm all for sane providers packing heat because let's face it, guns are works of art and who doesn't want that extra strut that comes with the confidence of packing, I would advise ladies putting in plenty of hours at the gun range and the appropriate gun. While some high caliber chromed to shit gun might look awesome and the gun dealer might try to push it on someone who he thinks doesn't know what the hell they're doing, I recommend something like a
Glock 43 or
Glock 19. I recommend Glock over all just because they're much lower maintenance (meaning you don't have to worry about oiling your gun regularly and cleaning is pretty straight forward) and they're much, much lighter weight than a lot of other hand guns which I find personally helps me with my accuracy as it cuts down on how much recoil I have to manage.
The 43 is nice because it's small but not ridiculously so. Which means most girls should be able to fit it into their purse (though, remember if your bag is large and doesn't hold its shape, pulling your weapon when things go south is going to take extra time that you might not have so make sure whatever you put your weapon in is easy to draw from). The 19 is nice because it still looks like a real gun but isn't so big that ladies with hands a bit smaller than our male counter would have much trouble getting enough meat on the gun to make it effective. Of course, at the end of the day, it's really all about getting your own two hands on a gun and trying out what fits you best.
Now, for gun range practice, I would recommend adding it to part of the schedule just like quarterly doctor visits and setting up ads. If you're taking on the responsibility of carrying a deadly weapon, you've gotta take on the responsibility of knowing how to use said deadly weapon. I used to go to an outdoor range because I can't stand how loud the indoor ones get but if you're going to be most likely to have to pull your weapon in a hotel room or something, it's better to practice at an indoor range as the conditions will be closer to what you'd be facing in a real life situation. Pro tip; put the annoying little yellow earplugs in
as well as hard shell hearing protection. I've already got some pretty annoying hearing loss just from being careless with that shit. Also, pick a range that doesn't make you buy their targets. They way the hell over charge for that and honestly, especially at first, two paper plates (one for head, one for center body mass) will do just fine to help you get your groupings close together. Once you're hitting the plates consistently, just buy your targets in bulk and have at the silhouette bad guy.
I don't actually know how helpful that information is to anyone but I'd forgotten how fun it is to talk about guns. This day's already shaping up to be a good Friday!
