are stun batons really as bad as they say for self defense? I readily recongize the impracticality or rather risk in a self defense scenario when faced with an armed or determined oppponent and that guns or even a taser are better due to distance but I never fully accepted the idea that they are useless. I mean sure almost all are cheap garbage but what if someone made a stun baton that took inspiration from hatchets and flashlights in an instintive way with a decent grip that was similar to a maglite but with a blunt curved head meant to maximize the chances of delivering an incapacitating electric charge against an assailant? My logic is as follows, a stick is better than nothing therefore rather than a cheap prod someone has to awkwardly guide against someone what if they made something more akin to a cudgel that relies on instictive large (telegraphed) swings while legally being a bedazzling strobe flashlight but with a wide open head that maximizes the chances to jolt an opponent? Like less a stun baton and more an electeic shieleligh meant to be gripped like a baseball bat and wielded like a axe or machete?I mean yeah using a stun baton in a self defense situation leaves much to be desired yet the inverse is not exactly ideal either. I mean its still an electric club at the end of the day. It's impractical yet something that nobody would want to deal with and that is what bugs me. I feel like enough people don't have enough imagination. Like forget the cheap alixpress shit just imagine a design that focused on blunt force trauma, instinctive kinesthetic use and maximized odds of delivering an electrical charge against an attacker and I can't really say that's an invalid concept if one accepts the conceit that firearms are not involved. Feels like in theory yes in practice no, but that has always pissed me off
>>65275661i think the concept i'm envisioning is an electrified hybrid between a 6d maglite and a baseball bat but with a curved strike point designed in a way to maximize physical energy and secondarily maximize the odds of of discharging an electrical current like a baseball bat/kukuri hybrid
>>65275673In what scenario do you imagine this nonsense being used?
If anyone is close enough to crack me on the leg I'm knifing, if they're going for the head I'm shooting.But hey maybe you're in one of the other 200 countries where you arent allowed to shoot anyone ever.I hear your problem people in that case like machetes and you cant have those either.
>>65275715Awesome ones.
>>65275894Legit imagineation. But they don't "stun" anymore than a regulary bat. They are electrified and will shock on contact, not incapaciate
>>65275661Just use a blackjack. A lead weighted weapon is smaller, easier to handle and probably better at stopping anything than an electric club. Not to mention the fact that they are simple to make compared to your concept. A blackjack impacting the jaw, elbow, kneecap, back of hand, collarbone etc is instant stopping power. It has both immediate debiliating pain and shock, and an echoing lasting sensation.
In college, my Freshman year roommate's parents ran a police supply store. He stole a box full of stun guns and we stripped a few dorms' worth of 9 volt batteries from the smoke detectors. We then shocked the shit out of each other until we ran out of working stun guns and/or batteries (it's been a long time, I forget the exact details of when and why they went away).Here's the deal: stun guns only 'work' while they are actively held into a person. Hitting someone with one, like a bat would, would only provide momentary contact. That doesn't buy you much.Something like one of those inverted ( shields where you can pin someone in a corner would work, but anything else is kinda like trying to hold a hot poker into someone: if they're fighting you it's really hard to keep constant contact. Tasers are different because they harpoon themselves into the subject.Stun guns do not work like they do in movies. At all. In weeks of zapping each other relentlessly, no one ever went unconscious from them. They just kinda hurt.
>>65275661That's a prostate massager.
>>65276435Uzi does make a taser shield meant for riot control.
>>65276692We all know that is for show. In reality they just shoot them.
>>65276710Just saying, there was one on sale at Botach Surplus for $200. Very flimsy looking, could probably total it with a baseball bat.
Keeps unruly clowns and mimes in check.
>>65276729unless they have soap or lube.god help you if they have lube.
