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Not every encounter warrants lethal force, morally or legally. Again, if your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail.
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Interesting, isn't it, how few grasp that concept? I have been carrying pepper spray as long as I have carried a weapon (20 years). I see it as my responsibility to have an alternative, even if only from the standpoint of weapons retention.
If I am armed, I get assaulted, and get in a fight which I lose, I have just put a gun in the hand of my previously unarmed attacker.
The reasons for less-lethal alternatives are endless, and there is no downside to having them available.