subject: Personal Security: Are you prepared to avoid becoming a victim? [print this page] Personal Security: Are you prepared to avoid becoming a victim?
Do you feel like you are giving up some of your freedoms for your personal security? If you don't, you may not be mentally prepared to avoid becoming a victim. Let me share with you some alarming statistics from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime clock just for the year 2009. In America, one person is murdered every 31 minutes, another is raped every 1.9 minutes, and someone else is assaulted every 36.9 seconds. Imagine that someone else' being your mother, father, sister, brother, and maybe even you. Why not consider being prepared for the incident to possibly survive it or better yet, avoid it all together?
There are several things the average simple joe can do to virtually eliminate becoming a victim. Victims are created from opportunity just as animals in the wild. Consider it a predator/ prey relationship in the human world. The predator either subconsciously or consciously assesses the subject's weakness and ability to provide personal protection before deciding to attack. Taking into account, I haven't been a witness to many antelope attacking lions for dinner lately; I would consider the example true.
Through my experience, I have some suggestions and tips to give the average simple joe a leg up on these predators without giving up on too many freedoms in your daily life. The news offers plenty of examples of being a victim, why not be prepared or even get angry for that matter? How dare the criminals take our freedom to a simple life and make us live in fear?
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