Why do people continue to buy contact stun guns, despite them being the most ineffectual nonlethal weapons of all time?

@goagainsttheflow They do, but zapping someone and stopping them from killing/raping you are unfortunately two separate things. Contact stun guns, unlike shooting tasers, are entirely incapable of disabling an assailant's muscle control, and only work, if ever, by deterring an attacker via pain. Even then, they take a few seconds to cause severe pain, require you to actually touch the attacker (which is awful for a lot of reasons), and immediately stop working once contact is broken.

In other words, they're total trash.