Many men are able to withstand fairly high levels of pain, especially in the heat of an attack. Stun guns that only rely on pain don’t provide the kind of protection needed for any real security. More is needed and more is available – a lot more.

The new technology packs leading edge circuitry into stun guns as small as your cell phone. The kind of shock these jolts provides makes it impossible for the target to control his own skeletal muscles – the ones used for standing, walking and grabbing someone.

The voltage requires the body’s muscles to work very, very quickly – so much so that the body’s blood sugar gets changed into lactic acid and uses up energy that would ordinarily be devoted to voluntary muscle activities. Imagine how tired you would be if you were pushed to doing 150 jumping jacks in sixty seconds. Your legs would be rubbery and you couldn’t grab and hold onto much during the recovery time your body would need.

The other bonus in high voltage stun guns is that while the attacker is responding to the kind of power being pumped through him, the neuromuscular system can’t stand up. Typically, he will fall over in something like a fetal position and be completely incapacitated long enough for you to escape. Do so.