There are plenty of modern self-defense tools people, especially women, should know about. Take the taser, for example, a tool that delivers a debilitating electric shock. Women all over the country are holding taser parties, the modern-day metropolitan equivalent of Tupperware parties, I suppose.

From the practical to the bizarre, these 22 articles cover all the self-defense bases. Fashionable body armor? Check. Stilettos that double as working guns? Got ‘em.  Knowledge is power; preparing to defend yourself against a potential aggressor could be the act that saves your life one day.