members and the can be used in a rage against family members.

I think the statistic is that a woman has a 75% greater chance of being killed by her partner if there is a gun in the house.

main. But I applaud any effort to offer a less lethal alternative for the few who really give a darn about self-defense. Maybe, overtime, kids will reject their dads' efforts to turn them into gun nuts, and all that goes with that.

Pepper balls fired from paintball guns are nothing new.

They are greatly overstating the effectiveness of it- it's not instant, and it doesn't fully incapacitate. You better gave handcuffs or other means to restrain someone fast and the trainibg to use the restraints.

Pepper balls like that deliver a smaller dose of the chemical irritant than regular pepper spray delivered to the face, and usually hit on the chest so it's even less. Your better off with pepper spray and it's cheaper.

That said any chemical irritant is not always effective. A person on some drugs will seem unaffected and a person who really wants to can still function. I've had people I sprayed still fight hard. At my old department our yearly qualification to carry pepper spray was to be sprayed in the face with the same spray we carry, then we had to run 30 feet, shoot 10 shots at a target at 15 feet hitting at least 7, run back to the start point, order a suspect down and apply handcuffs- in under 60 seconds.