| Concern for your own safety or the safety of | | | | weeks so that you can quickly draw the spray, |
| your family should be a priority. With crime rates | | | | raise it up, and fire it in one fluid motion. |
| escalating to new highs, and with more | | | | Try to become "one" with the weapon. Think of |
| low-income families moving into your neighborhood | | | | the weapon as a part of your body and not |
| that once catered to the middle or upper class, | | | | merely an accessory tool on your belt. The more |
| one must be on guard in defense of himself or | | | | that you are familiar with pepper spray as your |
| family members. | | | | primary weapon of choice, the more you will have |
| If you plan to carry defense pepper spray on | | | | confidence in its use when the time of need |
| your belt underneath a shirt or jacket, position the | | | | comes. |
| spray upside down. If you role play with this, you | | | | Practice. Practice. Practice. The best heavyweight |
| will find that it is much easier to draw the weapon | | | | boxers do not get good by being born with an |
| in a downward position off the belt as opposed to | | | | innate ability to box. They become good at what |
| upward. Furthermore, position the spray in the | | | | they do through practice. This should be the same |
| holster such that when it is drawn and ready for | | | | with you. Think of pepper spray as a weapons |
| action, it is properly oriented in your hand in order | | | | martial art. It will require practice on your part to |
| to minimize its rearrangement. | | | | become good with this weapon. |
| Practice with this several times a day for several | | | | |