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Five Tips For Self Defense With A Stun Gun

If you were to believe the movies a stun gun is a magic wand that instantly drops someone with a light touch. The truth is that a stun gun can be a valuable self defense product, but it requires effort to use and won’t instantly win a fight. Stun guns do not always incapacitate attackers and are no substitute for alertness, intelligence and the will to protect yourself. Still, they can be incredibly decisive in a dangerous situation. As a self defense products supplier, Self Defense ATL not only sells stun guns, but shares straight talk about what it takes to use one properly at gun shows and other self-defense focused events. Here are five tips the company shares with people who want to buy stun guns.

Keep Your Stun Gun Charged and Close at Hand

Keeping a stun gun at the bottom of your bag isn’t likely to do you any good in case of a sudden assault. Keep your stun gun charged and close at hand, so that you can take it out in one or two quick motions. Your choice of stun gun should take this into account. Unless you’re a security professional carrying one at all times or on an obvious belt probably isn’t practical, but you can choose from a wide variety of carrying cases, and there are even models small enough to fit on a keychain. One popular model at Self Defense ATL is a cell phone stun gun, which has the exterior appearance of a mobile phone.

Push Hard

To function properly, a stun gun needs to conduct electricity across its prongs and through the target. Lightly touching the attacker can have little to no effect. Push hard instead, particularly if you have to penetrate clothing. The stun gun should be an extension of your arm, and you should be ready to push as if you were shoving a heavy door open with your closed fist (though with the stun gun’s prongs pointed forward).

Work Toward the Core

Using your stun gun on an arm is a good technique to help get out of a grip, but it’s unlikely to put down a determined attacker. They have their greatest effect when you hit the torso. Move the stun gun toward the center of the opponent’s body until you have a chance to escape.

Use Several Shocks

As stated earlier, a stun gun isn’t a magic wand. People have different reactions to the weapon and you should use it as much as you need to until you can get away safely. Police have a different set of guidelines for Tasers, but that’s because they have specific training, gear and professional requirements. A police officer may have safety guidelines that restrict use, but he also has a gun, baton, handcuffs and a duty to arrest. As a private citizen your responsibility is to escape assault, with the specific guidelines varying from one jurisdiction to the next.

Don’t Just Use the Stun Gun

A stun gun isn’t a replacement for pushing, punching, kicking, elbowing or doing anything else you need to do to survive. Remember that since you need to push with the stun gun you need a wide, stable body posture, just like a boxer or wrestler. They’re called “stun guns” but (except for Tasers) they’re really hand weapons like a club that require close proximity. They should be part of a strategy that uses your entire body.

Get Away!

Once you’ve released yourself from the attacker’s grip and can get a few steps away, run unless you have family to protect. A stun gun is a serious self-defense tool. It doesn’t exist to help with macho posturing – just survival. Get away and be safe.

About the Author

Self Defense ATL is the Atlanta region’s provider of self defense products for the average person. Visitors can buy pepper spray, buy stun guns and buy Taser guns online or through a print catalog.

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The Buckhead Theatre is not the old Roxy
[image-1] My memories of the Roxy are getting foggier every day (so many great shows!), and my memories of the original Buckhead Theatre, the Spanish Baroque movie house from the late 1920's, are even foggier (wasn't alive, yet!), but what I do remember of the Roxy was it being closer in aesthetics to the Variety Playhouse, a wonderful and beloved music venue in little 5 points, than the Ritz ...

Top 3 Atlanta Rappers

The city of Atlanta is quickly becoming a hot bed for burgeoning artists in the urban and hip-hop scenes. In the past, the South in general, including Atlanta, did not get the kind of musical exposure like California, New York or Chicago. While most of the topics in Southern rap are about success, money and Mercedes parts, some artists are branching out and tackling tough topics in clever ways. Today some of the most commercially and critically successful musical artists are coming straight out of Atlanta, Georgia. Here is a list of three of the top Atlanta hip-hop artists.

T.I.

In the last 5 years, T.I.’s star has risen faster than many other artists due in large part to his smart business moves and his consistent product. T.I. is an artist that stays loyal to his Georgia roots but also isn’t afraid to make forays into commercial music territory. His most recent album before his incarceration on a gun charge, “Paper Trail”, was his most successful and commercial to date, certified double platinum in the United States, a rare feat in this heavy downloading day and age.

Ludacris

Almost a decade into his career as a rap artist, Ludacris has had amazing success both in the hip-hop and acting world. Some smart career choices (or a good PR man) has gotten Ludacris roles in critically acclaimed movies such as “Crash” and “Hustle & Flow.” Ludacris’ rapping style is a perfect example of the sometimes slow, ATL flow with Ludacris’ amusing and clever wordplay mixed in. It is hard to imagine Ludacris being any more successful than he already is. He is an example to all the young kids in Atlanta.

Gucci Mane

You know you’ve reached superstar status when Mariah Carey’s people are calling to get you on the remix to one of her songs. That’s the moment that Gucci Mane’s name really started to ring out in the mainstream. The 29 year old born Radric Davis has been grinding in the Atlanta music scene with mixtapes and guest appearances for awhile until his recent big break through. His newest record was released recently in 2009 and is already getting play on BET and MTV. A rising artist from Atlanta, Gucci Mane is one to watch.

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Alan McGee is a freelance writer from MN.

what the name of the peom that is read in the movie " ATL" the part when T.I little brother is shot and is in?

the hospital and New New comes and Comfort T.I. the poem is read by a man.

Love's Deceit by Big Rube:

Pleasure turns to the pain, Of the lessons learned from the strain Of the questions burned in my brain, About whether to love is humane in its touch. These thoughts are like salmon swimming upstream in the tears of your deceit. Fighting the current hurt that kills more than is created by the chaos of our intertwined emotions. Chaotic because the anchor of Eros' arrow has been plucked from the vessel of my undying infatuation. Separation not as simple as the distance between us My mind no longer possessed by the demons that had been the overseers of my enslavement to your lies. The seeds of these lies rooted so deeply they have cracked the foundation of what we once shared. Allowing the faith in us I had sealed inside to gush out like a river, Ripping the image of our future together from my thoughts as violently and as brutally as if it were a child being taken from his mother's arms. I'm left surrounded in darkness but I refuse to be swallowed by it. My loneliness like the night air. Invisible to the eye, obvious to the touch, In its cold uncomfortableness Yet if I could do it all over again, I'd do it in the same skin I'm in. To lay down and let love die, Just stay down and let love lie, No, no, not I. I'll stay 'round and let love fly, Even though I have seen its darkest form, deceit. Nothing else could taste this warm or feel this sweet.

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