Originally Posted by
UberGeek
Law enforcement have great luck with it:
A simple wave of the arm, and you've disabled 5 people.
I would suggest you do a few basic web searches of pepper spray failure... It CAN work, but it doesn't ALWAYS work, people on drugs or for other reasons can shrug off its effects, at least for long enough to kill their intended victim.
And it can disable the person using it if their attackers are upwind... or simply close-enough that the pepper cloud covers the attacker as well as the victim... Oh, and bear spray produces a much larger cloud than normal defensive spray, so it will get the victim as well in most human assault situations (<15 ft between attacker and victim when first deployed)... So you had better hope you recover before your attacker...