Don,

As to tasers, they would be useful against someone who was not expecting it- there are effective countermeasures available, which I will not discuss in a public forum.


There was a story during the last century.... The end line was "All men are created equal- Samual Colt made em that way."

The original idea of personal firearms was to equalize the weak and strong, giving the weak a chance to compete instead of being forced to go along with whatever the strongest wanted.

The number of handguns used in colonial times seems to be about 10 % the number of longarms, from the known production of gunsmiths of the period. One might suspect that after the British made it illegal to have a firearm, the number of (concealable) handguns became a larger percentage of available guns.