Shafman isn’t an employee for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taser International. It doesn’t take long before the women are lined up in the hallway, whooping as they take turns blasting at a metallic target. On the coffee table, Shafman spreads out Taser’s C2 “personal protector” weapons that the company is marketing to the public. She says she used to stash knives under her pillow for protection. Shafman, 34, of Phoenix, says she knows how they feel. “The worst nightmare for me is, while I’m sleeping, someone coming in my home,” Shafman says, drawing a few solemn nods from the gathered women. – Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.
