If you wished us to have items for self-defense, you might consider actually carrying some in the stores. Or returning our powers to us.

[Yes, Phantom is still on about this. He's not happy being told to "be careful" when the best he could scrounge up is a messenger bag filled with a heavy textbook, several snacks, and the pair of compacts just in case.

A knife would have been nice! Useless, but nice!]