Very true. A gun can be risky. In 1991, I used a can of Mace to stop a dog attack once. It worked quite well. The dog stopped biting a neighbor of mine he was attacking about five seconds after the first spray. Then, he turned as if to attack me. I gave him a second and third spray directly up the nose, eyes and mouth and he ran away yelping. I heard the dog gasping for breath before his owner took him away in a car. Then, EMTās came to tend to the horrible bites on my neighborās legs, arms and face. Blood was everywhere. The owner later had his dog destroyed. I heard he settled out of court at a very large sum. Within a year, he sold his home and he moved. My neighbor was scarred for life.