Regarding chemicals justified or not my fear is that the crook will squeeze the trigger blinded or not. To my way of thinking maybe it's best to not camp alone and secondly never ever open the door after nightfall. It seems like 95% of Petty-Thefts while parked overnight in a gasolinera happens to those folk who insist on staying in a pitch-black area with no lighting.
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Will serve to frighten all but the tiniest of tiny fraction of robbers. Slam drawers like you are in a hurry. Yeah I used it at Lagos de Montebello and three of them ran like rabbits. Anf one was holding what appeared to be a Saturday Night Special. In ALL arrest casas in Mexico the justice system makes a big deal out of possession of ammunition. The simple possession of a firearm is bad enough a loaded firearm is hell on wheels for sentencing. Something to think about.
So is a crossbow. They are legal and they are deadly to about 10 meters. A closr-range body mass hit means a quarel will almost go clean through. A horrendous amount of kinetic energy. Cock and lock the bow at night. Drop one robber and the second will flee. Don't try and chase him - you'll end up breaking a leg if you catch my drift.
Fact not fiction. Robbers do not work for cartels. Cartels demand about 75% of the take. It ain't gonna happen. Robbers are free-lance and genuine sicarios will execute them on sight for dissing the authority of the plaza. Robbers run scared and a hard nut to crack RV means they will flee. This was explained to me carefully by Beto and Chelas who were at one time gunmen for La Familia. They quit after heads rolled across the Disco floor on Uruapan and that idiot tossed the grenades at the 16th Sept grito in Morelia. Those terrorists acts disgusted them. Both men acted as vigilantes and enforced the law from Solara de Agua to Bochil Michoacan. They caught wholsale mango thieves, shakedown artists and robbers opetating in the area. La Familia did not terrorize citizenry. Then the Caballeros Templarios replaced LFM and all that changed.
