The principal difference between “Good Guys” and “Bad Guys” is the latter’s indifference to, or perhaps even preference for, causing harm to other people. Bad guys go into an armed robbery or carjacking knowing that they may have to shoot or stab a person … with potentially fatal results … in order to achieve their goals. Conversely, good guys know that they win the scenario if the bad guys just abort the attack and leave.
Given this base-level reality, the ideal personal protection weapon for a law-abiding citizen is probably some variant on the phaser set to “stun.” When pressed, most CCW folk will tell you that if there were a 100-percent effective stun gun, one that could be pointed at an assailant and result in an unconscious mugger every single
