# Stun Guns and Personal Defence

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**Created:** [August 27, 2007, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stun-guns-and-personal-defence/192055 "2007-08-27T08:28:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stun-guns-and-personal-defence/192055/33 "2007-08-28T18:40:29Z")

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> [@War with Iran?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/war-with-iran/32178/5):
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> anyone who knows anything about electricity knows that its amperage that kills you not voltage…even the average lightning bolt isn’t enough to stop your heart(30,000volts). I read up on certain things to see how they work, stun guns happened to be one of them. A perfectly healthy person will not die from the average stun gun because they have somewhere around 1-2.5 milliamps which is nowhere near enough to kill someone. Go read up and you will see

Exactly, I’m an electrician of 20+ years, if it was the voltage, I would have been many times over.

It is this exact reason that more people die every year from 120 Volt AC (typical outlet in your house) then from 10,000+ volts. Everyone thinks it’s only 120, but they forget that the average 120 outlet in a house has a minimum amperage potential of 15+ amps. If memory serves me you need a minim of 500 miliamps(1/2 amp) to change a heart beat or cause death.

But don’t whack the guy with a pacemaker with your stun gun…:scared:

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