True many people shot run away, sometimes even to drive themselves to the hospital. I had a dispatcher shot through the heart drive two blocks before he expired. Unless a CNS hit a handgun is a relatively slow physical stopper. Most people stopped by a handgun, stop because they no longer want to play cops, and robbers.

Actually pepper spray takes effect after about 10 seconds. That is still a long time, and there is the distance thing. I tell most people, deploy, then get the heck out of there, IOW RUN. Don't just stand there to see if the method used worked. Same with a cane, or a stick, beat them until they back off then get away.

I see the Lifecard as useless, even loaded it would take too much time to put it together. And then it only has one shot, a cane is a much better SD weapon than the LC. Does not need to be put together, and it never runs out of ammo.