Oh, yes, by all means, use this to discourage "hold-up men or rowdies." They're easily fooled! Because they're idiots.

Be the modern Two Gun Guy of 1927! Watch terrified women beg for their lives, then offer them a cigarette and say "no hard feelings." Then get shot in the head by someone who saw what you were doing and ran to the car to get his cigarette lighter. Which is actually a gun.