Personal Protection

[Terry J. Sturgis]

There is a 13 page post regarding legality of weapons on a bus while traveling cross country. A solution might be Wasp Spray.
A lady who worked at a church in rough neighborhood called police to see if it was OK to keep mace handy as the counted Sunday's collection on Monday. The police recommended Wasp Spray because to use mace the offender has to be quite close but with Wasp Spray it shoots a spray 20 feet blinding the offender till they get to the Emergency Room for treatment. Simple solution and if your brother-in-law shows up drunk at your bus and knocks on the door, he would be less "dead".
It also works good on Wasp.

[JIM CHALOUPKA]

The trouble is my brother in law is a WASP!

You might try aerosol oven cleaner.

JIM

[chtree]

I have a list of states that offer reciprocity for carry permits. If I can get it from the scanner to the computer I will post it. That wasp spray sounds like it would do a pretty good job in a lot of situations.

Chris

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I really dislike guns, but do have them on board. Upon first reading about wasp spray it seemed like a good idea, but upon reflection I'm not so sure.

If I feel so threatened as to feel the need to disable someone that means I fear for our safety. I don't mean I feel a little uncomfortable, I mean someone is approaching in a very threatening manner. First, I don't carry a gun and will not carry wasp spray so it implies I am in my coach. At that point I do not feel like sharing space with someone out to do me harm. I'm sorry but if I am in fear enough to use wasp spray it is likely I would use my gun. At that point I want the threat to be gone and in my opinion a gun is the only reasonable choice.

I will answer to the courts about the gun.

My first line of defense is to drive away. As long as the threat is outside the coach and I can get in the seat and drive that is what I am doing. If I am outside my coach I guess I am a sitting duck because I don't carry anything.

[Orren Zook]

Home intrusion specialists here in NE Ohio have been using wasp spray to disable dogs left to guard properties for quite some time now. Police view it as an innocent item in the trunk of a burglers car and as mentioned it is effective up to 20 feet away. A friend of mine had to have his rottweiler put down after it was sprayed during a break-in at his house while the family was away.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

The quickest way to get Di (who is normally very passive) to want to shoot someone is to harm or attempt to harm either of our pups.

I'm not even kidding a little bit about that. If that was our Rottie she would be out hunting the bad guys down.

[Alan__]

Are we talking about the same woman? Passive? As I remember Di said she wanted a cannon mounted on the front of the bus to knock off vehicles who cut in front of you and then immediately slow down.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Ya got me on that one, Alan. She does get a little hyper about the other drivers.

That's why she drives the H2, and why her email name is "LadyRambo".