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Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law by GFischer on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:12AM (#8756525)
I don't understand your phrase "the threshold for my using it should be the same as for my handgun"

I'm going to buy pepper spray soon, and I understood that it was basically nonlethal. I've been mugged a few times already, and I do believe it would have helped in at least one case (in which I absolutely would not have used a gun).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray

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Re:In Wisconsin, a Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads to New Law by hga on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @10:26AM (#8757511)
Technically, as I say above, it's viewed as "less lethal".

It can definitely kill, and I've read people have been charged for using it in what seemed to be legit self-defense. It's definitely force and not something to be used casually.

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