The right to defend yourself is one of the most important rights that a person has. It is one of the only reasons that our legal system has declared as a moral excuse to take another person’s life. However, some people take advantage of the self defense excuse in order to get away with what is just plain murder.

Recently a man named Ronald Brown was arrested for taking another man’s life. The man that he killed was Marquis Graham. While the police have arrested him for murder, there may be a chance that he killed Graham in self defense. The jury is going to have a hard time figuring this one out.

Apparently, Brown and Graham had been having an ongoing argument and Graham had been looking to settle the dispute. There has been testimony that Graham had been looking for Brown the day that he died. When he found him sitting in a car, he allegedly tried to attack Brown with a knife.

When the knife attack supposedly happened, Brown got out of the car with a gun and shot Graham in the chest in self defense. Did he then call the police? No! He walked away from the scene while the car drove away.

I have a hard time believing him. Who just walks away from shooting a man? Who leaves them to bleed and die on the sidewalk? He could have easily put the knife in the man’s hand after the shooting.

I hate that people abuse the legal system. I hate that they try to get away with murder by calling it something that it is not. I hope that the truth is revealed, whatever the truth may be. I hope that justice prevails.

One of the dumbest things someone can do is flee from the police. There have been many high speed chases and nearly every single one of them ends badly for the suspect. One such chase recently ended when the police used a TASER gun on the fleeing suspect.

Renauld Harris had broken a traffic law and a police cruiser tried to pull him over at a gas station. Instead of pulling over and getting a ticket, Harris sped away. The officer, of course, followed him and a car chase ensued.

During the car chase, Harris reached speeds over 100 miles per hour with the police in hot pursuit. After the chase went on for a while with the law nipping at his heels, Harris decided that he should try to lose the cops on foot.

He soon stopped his car and jumped out. He started to run, but an officer soon caught up with him. Doing as he had been trained to do, the officer pulled out his TASER and shot the suspect with it. Harris dropped to the ground and soon had handcuffs around his wrists.

When the police searched his car, they found nearly a dozen bags of marijuana and over $2500! No wonder he didn’t want to be pulled over. Oddly enough, he may have gotten away with his drugs and his drug money if he had only acted innocent and settled for a traffic ticket.

The 24 year old may have learned his lesson or he may not have. Time will only tell. But I would assume that thanks to the TASER Harris had a shocking revelation and will think twice about fleeing from police in the future.

While in some parts of the world the use of the stun gun is being criticized, the New Zealand government is planning on its use by law enforcement officers across the country. While many people in New Zealand are thrilled about this advancement in law enforcement, there are some people who are against it.

Now that the funding has been gathered together, 3500 officers are going to be trained and 720 Tasers will be distributed throughout the country. As more funding is collected, no doubt more of these helpful tools will be distributed.

The introduction of the stun gun to New Zealand police departments is very welcome by the officers in those departments. They have been facing an ever growing problem of meth addicts attacking officers. Now that they will have the electroshock devices, they can protect themselves while posing less risk to the addicts who would attack them than they would with their sidearms.

Fortunately, the government has already had enough foresight to set up very strict rules in regards to the weapons being discharged. They have also made sure to budget for a computer system and cameras in the Tasers that will keep a record when they are used. They have set this up to help prevent the weapons from being misused.

Enforcing the law for a living is a tough job, especially when drug addicts go crazy and start to attack officers. They need to have a means of defense other than a gun that can help keep both the suspect and themselves alive. A stun gun is a wonderful solution to that problem and I am glad to hear that New Zealand has realized that.

Acting on the right to defend yourself can be tough, especially when you fight back and hurt someone who never hurt you! One man found out that self defense can be dangerous and can ruin your own life if you don’t do it properly. If he doesn’t end up spending his life in prison, he may change the way he defends himself.

Maurice Parks was on his way home from his subway operator job and was almost there. His life changed 80 feet from his front door when four muggers attacked him by punching him and stabbing him.

Parks pulled out a knife that he carried for defense and stabbed one of the attackers. They started to flee as Parks got on his cell phone and called 911. Shortly after the call began, another man that Parks thought to be one of his muggers came up to him. The man was Flonarza Byas, a tax preparer and not one of the attackers.

Mr. Parks was so scared for his own life that he used his dagger to stab Mr. Byas, under the impression that he was about to attack him. Maurice Parks stabbed Byas repeatedly and he ended up dying from the wounds. Now, the mugging victim is on trial for murder of an innocent man because he was confused, and he could spend the rest of his life behind bars because of it.

If Maurice Parks had had pepper spray with him instead, Mr. Byas wouldn’t be dead now and Maurice still would have felt safe. Using weapons like knives or guns for self defense only ends in more trouble and death, which is exactly what the world doesn’t need more of.

Assault is a serious charge that too many people take too lightly. One Canadian man discovered just how serious of a charge it can be when he had to flee from police. In order to finally catch him, the police had to use pepper spray. Now he is in a whole world of trouble.

It all started when a man from a town called Oshawa hit his ex-girlfriend. She obviously wasn’t going to take it and she called the police. While she was doing this, he fled and sought refuge in a friend’s basement.

The police started searching the neighborhood and asking people if they had seen him. They eventually found out where he was. As they started to head into the basement, the man fled out of a window.

The officers quickly went outside into the backyard. They started to pursue the abusive ex-boyfriend. In the chase, the man picked up a gas powered lawn mower and threw it at one of the police officers, hitting him in the legs. Other officers quickly caught up with the man and used pepper spray in order to stop him.

The man now faces several assault charges, as well as a charge of resisting arrest. The officer who was hit with the lawn mower needed to be taken to the hospital and released a short time afterward.

Assaulting anyone is just a horrible thing. Thankfully, this man was caught and arrested. People need to learn that they can’t start trouble and then get away with it. When they flee, they only make it worse. If you ever find yourself wanting to flee from the police, just remember that they do carry pepper spray.

It does not matter if you are big, small, strong, weak, famous, or without renown. If you have been doing drugs and you are a threat to others, then you need to be stopped. When police try to stop people that are a threat to themselves and others and they don’t comply, then sometimes the police will use a TASER to force them to comply. That is exactly what a boxer recently discovered.

Chris Henry is a 28 year old boxer from Houston, Texas. He recently got into trouble with the law when he decided to smoke some PCP. After doing the drugs not too long after midnight, he went for a walk in the street. While in the street, he began to yell while walking around in circles. This prompted neighbors to call the police and some of them reported that they had seen a gun.

The police arrived and Henry was still up to no good. He continued to yell, walk in circles, and jump up and down. Police could tell that he was on PCP and his girlfriend confirmed it after talking with them. The officers on the scene tried to verbally calm Henry down, but he wouldn’t listen and became more rowdy.

Believing that he was a threat to himself and others, and also under the suspicion that he may have a gun, an officer used a TASER to stun Henry. The boxer fell to the ground and officers rushed in to put cuffs on him. He continued to struggle as they did so. Police never found a gun.

Some drugs make people do crazy things. PCP has been known to make people violent and believe that they are invincible. Without the TASER, this powerful boxer could have done some damage.

Self defense weapons are not toys, but some people just don’t seem to realize that. They are serious tools in case of emergency. However, one 13 year old boy discovered a way to make a stun gun out of a disposable camera from an online video. He decided to go ahead and try to make it. As you can imagine, he got in trouble.

The boy didn’t get in trouble just for making it though. It was only after he made it and showed it to a friend that the trouble began. The friend he showed it to thought that it was a really fun toy that he wanted to bring to school. He did so and started to shock his friends with it.

The police were brought in and the homemade stun gun was confiscated. Though the camera delivers a much lower electrical charge than a police issued electroshock device, it still had the potential to harm others. Being bold, the county Sherriff gave a demonstration to the press about the homemade device and shocked himself with it. He was obviously in pain from the shock.

The Sherriff warned that parents need to keep an eye on their kids while they are online because that is where the young boy learned to make the stun gun. Because the stun gun was brought onto school grounds, the boy could face a felony charge with a punishment up to four years. I hope that he doesn’t get that harsh of a punishment, but I also hope that he realizes that weapons are not toys.

Even movie stars have to defend themselves sometimes, but self defense can be a hard thing to prove. Actor Vinnie Jones discovered this after he defended himself in a Sioux Falls bar not too long ago. I was shocked when I first heard the story because it just doesn’t make sense.

Vinnie Jones, the actor who played Juggernaut in one of the X-Men movies, was in a bar in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was in town to go pheasant hunting. In the bar, he asked a couple of men if he could join in their pool table game. One of them pointed out that he was the actor who played Juggernaut, then promptly told him that he couldn’t play.

For some reason the men became very violent with Jones. They picked up a beer glass and smashed it into his face, then smashed him in the head with a beer bottle. As Jones headed for a bathroom to try to clean himself up, the men started to taunt him a second time. Fearing for his safety, Jones lunged at one of them and started to punch him.

What was shocking to me was that Jones was arrested and put on trial. He faced up to a year in jail and a $2000 fine, even after he had received 70 stitches due to the glass that was broken over his face. Perhaps if Jones had used a self defense weapon instead of his fists, he wouldn’t have gotten himself into so much trouble.

Self defense is a right that every person has. When people are attacked like Mr. Jones was, they shouldn’t get into trouble for defending themselves.

Sometimes the police catch a lucky break and run across someone they are looking for without even trying. However, when it comes to arresting that person, it sometimes takes some effort. Thankfully, the police have pepper spray to help them bring in wanted criminals with a little more ease.

In Portland, Maine, two officers were out on patrol in the entertainment district. They happened to spot Lynel Moultrie, who had several warrants out for his arrest. The officers decided to seize the opportunity and arrest him.

As the police approached Moultrie, he became uneasy. When they tried to place him under arrest, he shoved one of the officers and tried to make his escape. The other officer caught him however and used some pepper spray to keep him from getting very far.

Soon, the officers had Moultrie in handcuffs, but as they were starting to take him to their car, a large crowd of intoxicated people started taunting the police. The people in the crowd were calling them racist and brutal. This wasn’t the case though. They were just doing their jobs.

When they were closer to their car, another group of people stood in their way. One of them refused to make way for the officers, though he was asked several times. Since he was keeping them from getting to their patrol car, they arrested him as well for failure to disperse.

Being on patrol in an entertainment district can be rough. With so many people drinking and carrying on, things can get out of hand quickly. Thankfully though, police have pepper spray to help keep things under control when they need it.

Crime really doesn’t pay but people commit crimes anyway. Even though some people get caught multiple times for criminal activities, they continue their lives of crime. One man in Idaho recently committed a robbery and discovered that it really wasn’t worth it after he got shot with a TASER.

Forty-seven year old Richard Breen of Meridian, Idaho, was recently in Boise. While he was there, he followed through with a plan to rob a local hotel. He got his gun and held the place up. After getting the money, he fled in his van while the clerk called the police to make a report.

The police soon caught up with Breen and chased him. He eventually turned into a car dealership parking lot where he soon realized he was about to be caught. When he tried to backup to get out of the parking lot, he backed into two police cruisers. He knew that he was as good as caught.

Breen jumped out of his car and started screaming at the police. He was telling them to shoot him while waving his arms in the air. The police didn’t want to take his life, but he was acting too erratic to simply put cuffs on him and take him away. So, the police used a dog and a TASER in order to incapacitate him and arrest him.

We are currently living in hard economic times, but that is no reason to start committing robberies. This man discovered just what can happen when you break the law in order to survive. There are plenty of other means of survival than using terror and illegal means.