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As we know from the coverage of today’s swearing in of Milwaukee’s new police chief, crime is one of the City’s biggest problems, if not “the” biggest problem. Marquette is touched by the problem of crime in Milwaukee: it affects the school’s reputation and the experience of students for the duration of their academic career.

It particularly affects the lady-folk on campus, traditionally a bigger target for violence from the more sinister citizens of Milwaukee. The Department of Public Safety does its part to protect all students, but they cannot be everywhere, all the time. (Preventing daytime kidnappings on 16th and Wells, for example).

In an ideal world, as many law-abiding, trained Marquette women who were comfortable bearing arms as possible would be packing heat. Unfortunately, Jim Doyle and the Democrat Party of Wisconsin stand in the way of the plain language of the Constitution permitting security and defense by citizens (Art 1, Sec 25).

In lieu of this, many serious feminists have worked to find ways for women to defend themselves. One development is the taser. To this end, Dana Shafman of Shieldher, Inc. is working to arm as many women as possible with the latest in taser technology with TASER C2:

The TASER® C2 is the most sophisticated personal protection system ever developed. TASER® systems are Electronic Control Devices (ECDs), which use a replaceable cartridge to deploy two small probes that are attached to the TASER® C2 by insulated conductive wires with a maximum length of 15 feet (4.5 meters).

The TASER® C2 transmits electrical pulses along the wires and into the body of the target, overstimulating the sensory and motor functions of the peripheral nervous system, causing overwhelming incapacitation.

Shafman has an ingenius marketing plan.

Announcing: SHIELDHER TASER® PARTIES. The Shieldher, Inc. organization sponsors “Taser Parties” the same way your Grandma and great aunt Betty once sponsored “Tupperware Parties.” Here, guests can learn more about how arming oneself with a taser may improve self-defense:

Thank you for your excitement about attending a Shieldher TASER® Party! While we would love to have one in every city across America immediately, we are rolling out Shieldher’s TASER® Parties city-by-city over the coming months. We plan to be in 6 states by March 2008 and hope to be in the other 34+ states by the end of 2008! It is a lofty goal but one that we are committed to for 2008. The reason for the rollout is to ensure the quality of the parties so that we can properly educate Shieldher’s clients and staff.

This is a brilliant, awesome idea. It’s too bad law-abiding women (and men) can’t arm themselves with firearms, but women can and probably should arm themselves with tasers. I think MU’s DPS should get in the game by sponsoring, if not this brand of taser, some kind of Taser Party so that interested ladies can research which brand might fit them.

If Marquette wants to continue to be serious about keeping students safe, despite any uncertain wrangling that happens down at City Hall, they ought to look to innovative ways to protect students. What better public relations tool than to tell interested students and faculty that it personally familiarizes or trains them in how to operate a taser?

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