Car keys and vomit

Tam and Kim have both become aware of this little nugget of warm, steaming excrement: tips on how women can protect themselves without using a gun, courtesy of the Illinois State Police.

Just a snippet:

It may sound disgusting, but putting your fingers into you throat and making yourself vomit usually gets results. (This method is not often used except as a last resort.)

Use your imagination and you can think of others.

*snip*

Articles common to your handbag that make useful defense weapons.
nail
file
rat tail comb
teasing brush
pens and pencils
keys
anything rigid

What has our society come to when we'll stoop to advocating the use of vomiting just to avoid the perceived violence of modern weaponry? For God's sake - why are women not utterly enraged by this utter lunacy?

Maybe Tam said it best:

Guns, of course, are a no-no because apparently (at least according to them) we're so flighty that half of the time we try to use a gun for self-defense, we wind up busting a cap in the wrong individual. I'd really love to see their data on that one. (Yeah, you're all the time reading about how some woman in a parking lot somewhere ran her Glock to slidelock in some guy because he pulled a wallet on her. This is me rolling my eyes.)