Sheilder Inc. Where do you get your rape statistics? The number you gave is far below the most recent stats from the FBI and Department of Justice, which reveal the number of completed rapes and attempted rapes together as 93,934,(and not all of them are women) which is way below the number you gave. What is your source for that number?

I know that even if one person is raped it's a horrible thing (female or male), but about 94,000 is far from over one million. Hence, you make the problem seem a lot worse than it is. And, as I said in an earlier post, it is MEN who are more likely to be assaulted--granted not raped as much (outside of prison, that is) but there were 863,000 instances of aggravated assault in the last census, and almost three quarters of all victims of aggravated assault are men. I think rape is worse than being beaten, but getting a severe beating is no fun either, and it is a legitimite reason to fear walking the streets at night. If these taser parties are always gatherings of assaulted women who give needed support to each other, then that's of course alright. But what a way of showing it. I don't know, something about it just seems so crass, so malignant and scummy. To me it seems like a sales pitch where people guffaw as they lust for blood. Kind of disturbing.

I am the Taser Party Creator!
Yes, my name is Dana Shafman and I invented the Taser Party through my company. Your stories and conversations above are very entertaining BUT not very accurate!
As for Taser Parties, we are not all sitting around a room trying to look cool in bandanas or be fashionable with leopard taser C2's in our hands. The purpose of the Taser Party is self defense and yes, we teach self defense techniques and awareness at EVERY Taser Party. We discuss serious topics and recount stories of women who have emailed saying that they wished they had a taser when they were assaulted and attacked. It is a very serious party down at the core yet we try to lighten it up a bit with food and non-alcoholic beverages (Tupperware Style). We also teach the party attendees how to use their taser  as a deterrent and that they do not have to fire it in order to benefit from it...basically, how to use it to prevent an attack and how to use verbal warnings rather than deploying it erroneously.
The reason why the taser comes in colors is because we want to encourage women to carry them with them so that they are protected...and it is easier to get women to carry them if they come in fun colors rather than black! We even provide faux fur taser bags for purses so that our clients can find them easily so they don't get mugged. Yes, we thought of everything!
Lastly, the taser has NEVER...and I repeat NEVER...been directly linked to the death of any person in the US or outside the US! I have taken a taser hit (you can view it on my website under New Stories at the bottom) and can tell you first hand that it is not lethal! Even Amnesty International backed off their statement that "the taser is lethal" with a better, more accurate statement of "we don't know what caused the deaths in taser related incidents" since it is uncertain as to what caused the deaths!!! That said, I have only 2 choices as a woman which are (1) a firearm which IS lethal or (2) a taser C2 which is not. I choose the taser because I know that I am willing and able to use it with ease.
After all, we are just trying to lower the number (now 1 million annually in the US) of women sexually assaulted, raped or abused in the US. Who wouldn't wanted to get behind a cause like that?
Dana Shafman
"TASER Party Creator"

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DAV78, your pity story for American women doesn’t get any sympathy from me. The majority of men DO NOT abuse or murder women. In fact, men are the ones in more danger of being attacked, as almost three quarters of all victims of violent assault in Canada and the US are MEN. Rape and DV statistics given by certain groups of feminists are exaggerated and inflated, and studies that reveal that women can be just as violent in a relationship are often ignored, dismissed as “reactionary”, or even actively suppressed (noooo, these “poor” women who go to these taser parties, for instance, would never look like they are capable of abusing their boyfriends or husbands, right?)I know things aren’t perfect for women in society, but I think in many ways it is men, men in general but minority men in particular, that bear the brunt of society’s ills these days–and even much in the past, dare I say (remember I’m speaking for MOST men, not the small rich minority of white men). They are the ones that are killing themselves at four times the rate that women are (btw, if you don’t care about this or scoff at it, it only goes to show just how significant a social problem it is.). They’re the ones expected to take on the most stressful and hazardous jobs and not be given the option (or if they do now, it’s still a socially frowned upon “option”), as women are, of spending their lives with their children, their chief sources of love. They’re the ones who are socially pressured to get injured or die in all kinds of violent and stupid bullshit because of the way they were socialized as boys in this society, because that’s what it means to be a man. They’re the ones who are pressured into joining the military (even though some women join military now, there is no social or parental pressure to do so, they don’t fight in front line combat, and they’re not given the lame excuse that this is what defines you as a person) shipped off like chattel to be slaughtered in a rich white man’s (and white woman’s–they’re married to the rich white men, remember?) war. And if they even think of complaining, they are given ye olde “take it like a man” line, still perpetrated, straight out of the refuse bin, apparently (for instance, when I talk like this, I’m often called “misogynist” or “whiney”). Hey, sorry, but you turned this into a gender thing, I’m just reacting. Toxic male socialization is the chief culprit here, with the help of gender and ideological feminists over the last twenty to thirty years or so, who perpetrate inflated statistics, misconceptions, and outright lies about men and about women–for instance, if you actually believe that most women in Western culture are the victims of violent abuse or rape, then you have believed the lies (it is actually most men who are the ones often forced into some violent situation. And nobody even gives a damn).
I wonder how many of these women were actually victims of some kind of real abuse. If they are, then I sincerely apoplogize. But I can easily suspect that they believe the terrible lies that most men are abusive and/or rapists. And how just plainly stupid and brainless this whole thing is. Tasers as fashion accesories–that look “fabulous’ (that word has GOT to go)? Its only flowing even more contemptible and malignant behaviour and attitudes into the social sphere when you put on such atrocious displays of contempatble and malignant behaviour, such as what these Taser parties basically are. These women are the only ones responsible for this degenerate display. Stop trying to blame men, and stop buying into the culture of fear. Trust me, it’ll only make the poison between the sexes and the highly toxic social sphere get, unbelievably, even worse than it already is.

Why are these women pretending they're somebody on TV and why are they so afraid that someone's going to attack them? Is this what american men do to women? Is that why american women are always trying to arm themselves and fight back against their people in their own communities? Is it because they're raised by abusive fathers? Date and marry abusive men and hang out at bars filled with drunk, abusive men? Maybe if upper, middle and working-class men stopped assaulting their girlfriends, wive, daughters, and coworkers, maybe if men were taught they are no better, no stronger, no smarter and no more capable of anything than any woman is, and maybe if girls were taught that they are every bit as strong, as smart and as capable as any man, maybe then these poor girls wouldn't have to pretend that they were a super-hero TV crime fighter to feel a moment of safety, comfort and the illusion of empowerment. Maybe if these women had been brought up to value themselves as more than objects, maybe if they were taught that their minds were more important and more powerful than their fashion 'sense,' maybe if they were taught that they didn't need a man or a weapon to get along in life, maybe if they were taught that they should never, ever have to stand for mistreatment at the hands of any man, ever, and maybe if they were taught they every day, any day that they feel someone has talked down, insulted, condescended or intimidated her that she should, right there, without hesitation point to this person and let everyone within earshot know who and what he is, maybe then these women wouldn't be confusing fear with strength or violence with empowerment. Maybe then these women would be empowered. Maybe then everyone in that room would have been wondering, "Why all the different colors?

Did they give any sort of body count? People have been killed with these things. Did they tell you anything about the legal consequences of using a weapon.

I once took a self-defense handgun class because I had violent drug dealers living next door. The instructor told us that if you shoot someone and even if the court determines you were within your right to defend yourself you could still plan on being out $50,000 in attorney fees.

There are other problems with using a handgun/taser: they are notoriously inaccurate, and especially so, when the shooter's adrenaline is pumping. You may miss your target and harm a bystander.

BTW- I didn't get a handgun. I bought a shotgun and a cell phone to place beside it. My plan was to call the cops and only shoot if someone came through my door. After the bad guys moved away I sold the shotgun.

Maybe I'm missing it, but can you provide me with some information on the photo of the Versace gun? It is a bizarre image. Thanks, KK

My mom shot me with a taser last night too!!