A recent incident in Denver... private security guard shoots someone who sprayed him with pepper spray. Guard was arrested and pepper spray guy dead.
Could someone assaulting you with PS be reason to be in fear of your life? It’s a short range non lethal sure, but the follow up actions is what has the potential to become deadly.
You get sprayed and a mob is around you - does that change things? Your weapon is now theirs. Or soon to be if someone else doesn’t step in to help.
Not advocating going in either direction but it did make me think about how I’d handle the situation. The guard was paid to be there so he couldn’t necessarily avoid the situation, which is the normal canned response to these sorts of things.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/10/denver-protests-saturday-civic-center-park/
https://www.insider.com/denver-man-from-right-wing-patriot-rally-killed-security-guard-2020-10
Could someone assaulting you with PS be reason to be in fear of your life? It’s a short range non lethal sure, but the follow up actions is what has the potential to become deadly.
You get sprayed and a mob is around you - does that change things? Your weapon is now theirs. Or soon to be if someone else doesn’t step in to help.
Not advocating going in either direction but it did make me think about how I’d handle the situation. The guard was paid to be there so he couldn’t necessarily avoid the situation, which is the normal canned response to these sorts of things.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/10/10/denver-protests-saturday-civic-center-park/
https://www.insider.com/denver-man-from-right-wing-patriot-rally-killed-security-guard-2020-10