Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Yes, but it becomes a casual thing to fire off a pepper round or hit the canister for a spray. It's should be used instead of firing a live round, not as a routine crowd control measure which is what has happened.
Ask the girl from Northeastern doing nothing wrong who got hit with a pepper round by an officer looking to disperse a crowd after the Red Sox won the ALCS this year. Oh that's right, you can't. It hit her in the eye and she died.
Such cases may be rare but they're not unheard of. The way these weapons are marketed and used is as if they were water balloons.
Boston,so would you rather the police used shotguns? Oh, never mindbecause on this forum we are talking about bicycles,and on this thread we are talking about self defense from dogs and motorist. Now , Boston if you have done any urban bike riding at all, and if you are a honest person at all, you will admit to have be harrassed, threatened, assaulted or, and attacked. Just read some of the threads from veteran urban bike riders. And if you still don't see the need and right to defend your self, then you havn't been riding a bike very long, are not being honest, or are masochistic. I myself will go out of my way to avoid confrontations. But if I get cornered, out come the pepper spray, and if it causes long term or permanment injury, just remember who began the confrontation. I plan on going home at night to see my kids.