A police officer used a Taser to subdue a pit bull terrier yesterday when it viciously attacked a woman at her home in Sydney’s west.

The attack came as an ambulance service spokesman said 12 people had been bitten by dogs in the past 24 hours.

Police were called to the Parramatta house about 10:30am to investigate an assault on a man who also lived there.

When police moved in to arrest the woman because she was hindering their investigation, the dog attacked one officer and then latched on to the woman’s arm.

An officer then stunned the animal with a Taser and restrained it in a room in the house.

Nice to know that Tasers also work against attacking dogs.

The Armstar Bodyguard is like a hands-free version of a stun gun.

David Brown came up with the bodyguard idea seven years ago after a mountain lion mauled three people in California. He realized the new tool could be used — not only for personal self-defense — but also by the police and military.

“It works as a defensive shield. It works like baton,” Brown said.

“You’ll see a flashlight is built into it. You’ll see a laser built into it and then there’s also a video camera that provides live video streaming and broadcasts it back,” explained Andrew Quintero, Armstar’s president. “The original ideas that went into this started to evolve. A lot of that was done in a thinktank environment at Kevin Costner’s house.”

Costner is a financial backer of the bodyguard tool.

“They’ll start at about a $1,000 and go up depending on how much stuff you want to go into it,” Quintero said.

The tool is just coming out of the testing stage.

The cost is going to be high and I just don’t see someone going to the store at night with this on their arm.

Since the turn of the century, there have been over 90,000 forcible rapes every year. I don’t know about you, but that is a terrifying statistic to me. Women need to be able to defend themselves because a single rape is one too many. With pepper spray, a woman can defend herself from an attacker, completely immobilize him and make her escape. That’s the beauty of pepper spray.

Pepper spray works wonderfully as a self-defense weapon. The pepper extract that is in the spray causes temporary blindness for at least thirty to forty-five minutes. On top of the temporary blindness, the recipient of the spray will experience a runny nose, coughing and respiratory constriction. This kind of immobilization not only aids the potential victim in their escape, but it can also help the police find the assailant. After all, if they can’t see to get away, they won’t get very far from the crime scene.

Though pepper spray is a wonderful self-defense tool, how many people out there actually carry pepper spray? In fact, how many people are even thinking about self-defense throughout the day? Sadly, people don’t usually think about it until it is too late. What’s worse is when people do think about it, know that they should prepare themselves for such an occasion, but then never follow through because the opportunity to do so isn’t right in front of them. This is where you come in.

In order for more people to be better prepared, they need to have the opportunity to prepare themselves placed in front of them. You can be the one to do this. How? By finding a wholesale drop shipper that deals primarily with nonlethal self-defense products, and then by presenting those products to the customer. Because pepper spray is such a high impulse item, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep some in stock. You don’t have to have the product in stock, but if you do, all the better– if only for the sake of better customer service. That is one of the great things about working with a wholesale drop shipper. You can just take the customer’s order and pass it right along.

There is a lot of money to be made by selling pepper spray to people, not to mention how helpful it is. For every sale you make, you get to keep the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price that the customer pays. But you don’t have to just sell to individuals. You can expand your customers to include gun shops, pawn shops, and flea markets.

People need to be able to defend themselves because there are far too many people out there who aren’t quite in the right state of mind. There are vandals and car thieves. There are muggers and rapists. There are some people who just aren’t in touch with reality and may strike out at any time in a violent way. Everyone must be prepared.

Stun guns enable even the most defenseless people to defend themselves. Furthermore, not only do stun guns enable such people to defend themselves, but they can defend themselves extremely well because stun guns are very effective self defense weapons.

When stunned by a stun gun, the attacker can’t help but fall to the ground. Their entire body uses up all of its available energy when the high voltage shoots through their bodies at low amperage. This, coupled with a shock to the nervous system and a good dose of pain, incapacitates an attacker for up to several minutes. This kind of down time is vital for the person being attacked. Not only does it help them get away, but it can also help the police have time to catch the perpetrator.

Many people think that it is dangerous to have a stun gun because the attacker might take it away and use it on the person that they are attacking. But most stun guns have a safety mechanism that is built into it. This mechanism usually takes form in the wrist strap. The wrist strap is plugged into the stun gun and the stun gun will cease to work if the strap is pulled out of it.

Most people realize that they need to defend themselves and some of them go out and buy guns and bullets. However, guns are extremely dangerous as well as lethal. There are many innocent people who die every year from accidents with guns. But with a stun gun, if there is an accidental “misfire” and you stun yourself, you will only wake up a little groggy.

Stun guns are fairly priced and you can find them a number of places. The primary places that you would find them are gun stores or on the Internet. Occasionally you can find them in sporting good stores, but not always. If you are looking for the best deal on stun guns the best place to look is online. Online you can purchase stun guns at a wholesale price, rather than the full retail price like you would at a store.