Self Defense Calling-the Awesome Cell Phone Stun Gun

Self Defense Calling-the Awesome Cell Phone Stun Gun

When it comes to defending yourself there are a few things for you to know about before you have a dangerous, nasty encounter.
Did you know?
–One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.
–One out of eight women will be raped while in college.
–84% of women who were raped knew their assailant.
–57% of rapes occur on a date.
–75% of male students and 55% of female students involved in date rape.

Women, particularly college women, are very susceptible to assault and rape. Date rape has become more of a threat than women want to admit. Women who want to keep a low profile and yet have a considered air of self confidence carry a new multi-purpose device that acts primarily as a stun gun but looks like a cell phone.

Stun guns were originally designed for an individuals personal safety. Combine that with the looks of a cell phone and you have a non lethal self defense weapon that has the added element of surprise that could save your life.

Cell phone stun guns are an electroshock gun in the shape of a cell phone that can be used effectively for self-defense immobilizing an assailant for up to 5 minutes or more.

This unit also has a 100 db alarm and a super high intensity flashlight which alone could temporarily blind an assailant. The stun gun packs a whopping 800,000 volts enough to dissuade the most aggressive of assailants. A wrist strap with a stop pin sets off the 100 db alarm if the unit is pulled out of your hands.

Take away the element of surprise and turn the tables when it comes to self defense.
This cell phone is so realistic looking that any pervert would certainly be surprised himself by this nasty powerhouse. Self defense is calling.

Jack Krohn is the #1 author of Home Security Articles in the country according to EzineArticles. He owns SECURITY SOLUTIONS a one stop resource that provides solutions and answers for all your self defense and home security problems.

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Get Your Toolbox Ready For Summer Spruce-ups

Get Your Toolbox Ready For Summer Spruce-ups

Now that summer is here, and you’re spending more time outside, you’re probably noticing the toll that winter took on your home. Before you tackle these home repair jobs, make sure your toolbox is stocked with the supplies you’ll need and that your tools are in good repair and ready to use. Taking a few minutes now to double check means you won’t have to waste time running to the hardware store in the middle of a project.

First, take inventory of what needs to be done and what you’ll need to do it. Since many repair projects involve dark corners of the house like the crawlspace or attic, be sure to have a flashlight handy. The NightStar flashlight uses magnetic force instead of batteries – so it’s always ready when you need it. Simply shake, and the flashlight provides 20 minutes of light on a single charge. To keep your hands free, use the convenient holster, which clips to any belt or waist band. The holster also has an extra pocket for small tools.

Once you know what jobs you’re tackling, you’ll have a better idea of what should go in the toolbox. If you are comfortable doing big projects like home renovation, you’ll need more tools than a homeowner who leaves the big jobs to the pros, but does smaller projects herself. But any toolbox should include some basics:

Hammers: An 8-ounce curved claw or 16-ounce rip claw hammer are ideal for household tasks.

Pliers: Standard options include 7- or 8-inch slip joint pliers and diagonal cutters. Look for pliers with a slip mechanism to keep the handles in place.

Level: This versatile tool is ideal for hanging pictures or wallpaper, laying tile or hardwood, and installing shelving.

Screwdrivers: Consider investing in a full set of screwdrivers or one all-purpose tool, which is an inexpensive alternative. All-purpose screwdrivers, like a 6-in-1 model, contain standard and Phillips bits in the handle, which can be easily interchanged. Ratcheting screwdrivers also come with a variety of bits and save the user effort by doing most of the work.

Flashlight: Home repair jobs often involve getting into tight, poorly lit places, so a reliable flashlight is important. The NightStar flashlight never needs batteries or bulbs and can be counted on even after years of abuse and neglect. When shaken, a high-strength magnet passes back and forth through a wire coil. The electrical energy is stored in a capacitor that be recharged repeatedly, will work in extreme temperatures and will never corrode — even in humid or salty environments. NightStar flashlights have state-of-the-art LED technology that puts the flashlights’ beam on par with conventional bulb flashlights. It’s also a handy tool to find the fuse box in case of an emergency. The available illuminated wall mount holder means you won’t have to grope in the dark – the mount’s special luminescent material glows for hours, enabling any regular size flashlight to be easily located whenever light is needed.

Tape Measure: A 16- or 25-foot retractable tape measure is ideal for most measuring tasks.

Snips: These versatile cutting tools are ideal for cutting a variety of materials from thin gauge wire to light sheet metal.

Adjustable Wrenches: A set of three quality adjustable wrenches in small, medium and large sizes can fit a variety of nuts and bolts.

Utility Knife: When selecting a utility knife, it is important to choose one that is suitable for a specific job (i.e. cutting carpet) to ensure quality results.

Building An Emergency Preparedness Kit

Building An Emergency Preparedness Kit

If you don’t think it’s important to be ready for a disaster before it strikes, you may want to check out FEMA’s Web site. It reads: “You may need to survive on your own after a disaster. Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days, or even a week or longer.”

Fortunately, being ready “to survive on your own” can be as simple as stockpiling some food, water (plan on a gallon per person per day) and other important items in an emergency kit. Here’s a look at what else you might need:

• Health-Pack plenty of Band-Aids, antiseptic, bandages and gauze. Also, if you or your family members take medication, keep an extra week’s worth on hand.

• Communications-Keep a charged cell phone ready in case a disaster strikes, but remember that something as simple as a whistle can be a means of communication, too. In addition, a battery-operated radio can help you get important disaster or storm updates from officials.

• Documents-Include multiple copies of important documents such as birth certificates, health insurance information and identification in your kit, as well as extra cash and a credit card.

• Tools-Pack a multi-tool. It saves space and can come in handy in a variety of situations. For example, the Mountaineer, made by Sheffield Mfg., has different-sized screwdrivers, pliers, wire cutters, a saw, and a bottle and can opener, among other features. It’s also lightweight and comes with a D-ring that allows it to be clipped to just about anything (including an emergency kit).

• Light-Since many disasters revolve around rain or flooding, it’s a good idea to pack a flashlight that can take getting wet. GreatLITE makes a waterproof, battery-operated one called Marine Lamp. It features a floatable, lightweight plastic body and is weather resistant.

Of course, a well-packed emergency kit only helps if you can find it quickly. So be sure to keep the kit in an easily accessible place and let each member of your household know where it’s stored. That way you’ll be ready to go on a moment’s notice, should an emergency arise.

Using Your Defense Pistol At Night

Using Your Defense Pistol At Night

Criminals by their very nature are cowards, and commit their crimes when they believe their chances of being seen are low. It should come as no surprise, then, that more crimes are committed at night. It also follows that the majority of defensive uses of firearms occur at night.

For citizens who carry a gun for defense, or keep one in the home, this presents a problem. Low-light conditions make it more difficult for the citizen to see the criminal and more difficult for the citizen to use the gun’s sights. Fortunately, though, there are products and techniques that enable you to identify a potential threat and, if necessary, quickly get your gun on target. Each product and technique has its advantages and disadvantages, so it’s important to find the solution that’s best for you.

Night Sights

If you keep a gun for self defense, night sights are an absolute must. In defensive shooting, shot placement is key to stopping an attack. If you can’t quickly align your sights, chances are you’ll miss.

Many companies produce glow-in-the-dark night sights for handguns and long guns. Usually these sights have dots that are filled with tritium, a radioactive gas that glows in the dark. Trijicon, Meprolight, Novak and other companies make night sights that fit most production guns with little or no modification to the gun required.

Night sights are effective when you’re able to at least see the criminal, and know with certainty that he constitutes a threat. In total or near-total darkness, though, night sights will not enable you to see your attacker or at least confirm that he is indeed a threat.

Flashlights

Using a flashlight in conjunction with your defense gun enables you to identify a potential threat. More importantly, a flashlight enables you to identify persons who are not a threat. Nothing is more tragic than mistakenly shooting an innocent person.

In a tense defensive situation, holding a gun steady is often itself difficult. Trying to hold a gun as well as a flashlight becomes even trickier. However, there are techniques you can learn that have been proven over time.

One popular flashlight/handgun hold is called the “Harries technique.” With this technique, you hold your gun in your strong hand, and the flashlight in your support hand. The wrist of your gun hand rests upon the wrist of your flashlight hand, and you bend the wrist on your flashlight arm so that the backs of the two hands are touching. This hold puts the flashlight directly parallel to the bore of the gun and provides a solid support for your gun hand. The primary disadvantage to the Harries technique is that it forces your gun hand to point the gun off to one side. If you’re right-handed, you’ll see that your gun is pointed twenty or thirty degrees to the left of your line of sight. To compensate, you’ll need to hold the gun and flashlight much farther to the right than you ordinarily would.

Another common flashlight/gun hold is the “FBI technique.” This entails holding the flashlight at arms length away from your body. The advantage to this technique is that the criminal will be inclined to shoot where he sees the light, while you’ll have him in your sights. The disadvantage to the FBI technique is that you’ll be shooting one-handed, something that requires much more practice than two-handed shooting.

A variation of the Harries technique is taught by instructors for Massad Ayoob’s Lethal Force Institute (LFI) classes. With this hold, the gun hand rests on the top of the wrist of the flashlight hand. The wrist of the flashlight hand is bent enough to aim the light at the target, and the meat of the bottom of the gun hand is forward of the wrist of the flashlight hand. Having the meat of the gun hand pressing against the wrist of the flashlight hand eliminates what is called “limp-wristing,” where there’s not enough support for the gun to properly recoil and cycle the next round. Limp-wristing can result in failures to feed in semiautomatic handguns.

With advances in micro circuit technology, lasers and lamps, there are alternatives to the cumbersome flashlight/handgun combination.

Weapons-mounted lasers and lights were once used only by police SWAT teams and the military. Today, though, prices for such lights and lasers have reached the point where almost anyone can afford them. As with night sights and flashlights, weapons-mounted lasers and lights have their advantages and disadvantages.

Laser Sights

Laser sights are extremely effective in low light conditions where you can positively identify a threat to you, and need to get your gun on target quickly. By simply depressing a switch, you activate the laser. When the laser dot is on your target, you’re ready to fire if necessary.

Laser sights have become so compact that they have almost no effect on the weight or grip of the gun. Crimson Trace makes grips for most popular models of handguns that are nearly identical to the size of original factory grips. Other companies, such as LaserMax, make laser sights that are equally unobtrusive. Guns equipped with such grips and sights will generally fit any standard holster.

The disadvantage with laser sights is the same as for glow-in-the-dark night sights: if you can’t see the criminal, you don’t know where to aim your gun. Thus laser sights are best suited for low-light conditions rather than no-light conditions.

Weapons-Mounted Lights

Weapons-mounted lights provide the positive threat identification of flashlight/handgun combinations, but without the cumbersome techniques and training. A simple press of a switch illuminates the area, allowing you to identify a potential threat.

Weapons-mounted lights–also called “tactical lights”–are usually mounted on a rail just forward of the trigger guard on a handgun. Most have switches that are placed within finger’s reach for fast activation. Brightness levels on weapons lights vary from dozens of lumens to hundreds of lumens.

Many weapons lights also incorporate laser sights, giving you the ability to positively identify a threat even in total darkness, and then quickly lock on to the target with the laser sight.

Weapons-mounted lights are not without their disadvantages, though. One disadvantage is that most weapons lights require the use of holsters specifically designed for such lights. Some models even require the use of holsters designed especially for a particular light/gun combination.

Perhaps the primary disadvantage to weapons lights is that their use violates one of the four cardinal rules of gun use: never point your gun at an object you are not willing to destroy. When you’re shining your weapon light on a person, you’re pointing your gun at that person as well. Imagine hearing a suspicious noise and lighting up the area, only to find that you’re pointing your gun at your child.

You can minimize this problem by strictly adhering to another of the four cardinal rules of gun use: keep your finger off the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Also, holding the gun at a “low ready” position, with the muzzle pointed 45 degrees toward the ground, will allow you to see your environment without directly pointing your gun at someone.

Night sights, flashlights, laser sights and weapons lights all give you an advantage in nighttime defensive gun use. In the end, though, there’s no substitute for training. Lastly, there’s no substitute for the hope and prayer that you never need to use your defense gun.

How To Install A Fire Alarm

How To Install A Fire Alarm

If you are one of those lucky people who are building a new home from the ground up, installing a complete fire safety system wont be difficult to accomplish. Your architect can draw one into the original plans so that your builder will be able to install it while the walls are still open. If you buy an existing home, however, you wont have this option. In fact, when you move into the house there may be no fire safety equipment on the premises at all. If thats the case, it will be up to you to buy and install the equipment you need to keep your family safe.

Fire and smoke alarms both detect fires but by using different technology. A smoke alarm has a smoke sensor which can detect even small amounts of smoke and sound the alarm. A fire alarm contains heat sensors which detect rises in temperature before going off. These are both important additions to any home. If you dont have any, make sure you take care of this deficiency as soon as possible. In the store you may get confused about the different models and capabilities. If you need it, ask for help. By looking around you may also find a rack of pamphlets which will explain smoke and fire alarm systems to you.

If you still have questions after trying all these tactics, you can call your local fire station for information. Theyll be happy to come into your home and advise you on how to best set up your fire and smoke alarm system. Theyll tell you how many alarms you should have and where they should be located. They can also give you tips on which alarms will be best for your situation. When you purchase your alarms, they will come with installation instructions.

Installing Your New Fire Alarms

You only have to get a few basic tools together, and youll be ready to start installing your fire alarms. You should be able to do the job with a small drill, a screwdriver, a flashlight, and a small ladder. Most units only require that you drill two holes in order to secure the mounting hardware to the ceiling.

The next step is to remove the metal mount from the package as well as the screws youll need to install it. Screw the mount securely into place as it will be the thing that holds up the alarm itself.

Finally, youre going to install the alarm on the mount you just secured to your wall or ceiling. If you need to be able to see better in order to accomplish this feat, use your flashlight.

Before you consider the job finished, wiggle the alarm to see if it moves. If so, you need to spend time retightening the holder and the alarm until everything is tight and secure. If you dont do this, your alarm could by lying on the floor by morning. Nows the time to test the unit per the manufacturers instructions, and hopefully everything will be set to go.