This section is dedicated to explaining to you just what it's like to be sprayed by pepper spray. As a police officer myself and all other officers must go through pepper spray training before we are allowed to carry pepper spray ourselves much less use it on a suspect. Pepper spray can be very effective if used properly.
I remember the first time I was sprayed with pepper spray for training purposes. The instructor lined us up one by one and told us exactly what to expect but even though we all new that we would not be killed from the pepper spray we were still very much so scared of the pepper spray's reaction itself.
One by one the instructor sprayed pepper spray into the eye is each of the officers ahead of me. As I watched each of my fellow officers being sprayed in the eyes with the notorious pepper spray tension mounted as well as fear! One by one each of the officers as they were sprayed with the pepper spray hunched over to the ground in pain. Each officer began to cry out loudly for water as they rubbed their eyes trying to remove the pepper spray. Even though the instructor told us in class that rubbing your eyes just causes the pepper spray to burn even hotter and work its way even deeper into your skin and eyes. The rest of us can only imagine what it felt like to be sprayed with the pepper spray.
It was my turn next. The officer in front of me was then hit with the pepper spray. The fumes of the pepper spray alone were enough for me to close and my eyes and cough uncontrollably! Anxiety rose as I knew it was my turn to face the pepper spray.
I then stepped forward and the instructor asked me " are you ready"? I of course said yes with some hesitation. Instructor then pointed the pepper spray at my face. The pepper spray stream then hit my eyes. It then felt as if two red hot pieces of steel where grinding into my eyes. My face felt as if someone was blowing a red hot cutting torch into my face. I then fell to the ground just like all the others and started to rub my eyes even though I knew better not too. The heat from the pepper spray was overwhelming I could not resist trying to rub it off of my face.
The pepper spray caused my eyes to shut very quickly. The only way I could open them was by prying them opened with my fingers. Everything that we had been taught about pepper spray had turned out to be true. And everything that are instructor had told us that we would do even though we knew not to do it we still did. Pepper spray turned out to be more than I have bargained for.
I know now that when facing a situation may call for the use of pepper spray to defend myself as a police officer on the streets or to stop a suspect's aggression I know that pepper spray will work and world will work well! Likewise I know that if my wife should be in a situation that she would need to use pepper spray to defend herself I am confident that it will work and that she is safer today by carrying pepper spray. Although I can't seem to convince her to let me spray her in the face with the pepper spray so that she will no exactly what pepper spray feels like and will have the same confidence that I have in pepper spray.
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