Having a gun or knife will not protect you in all situations. You won’t have your gun or knife ready to use, and assailants won’t warn you before they get 21 feet from you. It takes 21 feet for you to pull out your gun and fire 2 rounds. A victimizer won’t have the good… Read More
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Self-Defense Tips & Quiz
Jennifer Chancellor interviews Tracie Crocker about self-defense: “There’s a lot of confusion and nonsense information out there. The most important tip to share with anyone, anywhere is to pay attention to your surroundings,” said Crocker, who’s worked for the Tulsa Police Department for 19 years, and has been teaching safety classes to women and children… Read More
Violence Prevention Grants
The AP reports that The Chicago Foundation gives grants for violence prevention against women: The Chicago Foundation for Women is giving out nearly one (M) million dollars in grants for projects that will help prevent violence against girls and women. Spokeswoman Lois Lipton says it’s the largest amount of money the foundation has given. The… Read More
New Study Shows Violent Crime Rising
Kotv.com reports on an increase in violent crime across the nation (United States): Violent crime is on the rise across the nation. A new study says we’re facing an alarming trend as many cities deal with double-digit, even triple-digit increases in homicides and other crimes involving guns. The group that did the study is the… Read More
Violent Video Games Do Not Cause Teen Violence
The ASA reports that violent video games do not cause teen violence: The American Sociological Association (ASA) has published a report claiming that there is no link between violent video games and homicidal behaviour in children. Following high profile school shootings in the US, most famously at Columbine High School, many reports have attempted to… Read More
18% of Young Women Sexually Victimized
Women’s Health News reports on recent research of sexual victimization: Sexual victimization can mean several things — verbal coercion to have sex with an intimate partner, rape by a stranger, a woman fondled in a bar or forced intercourse when a woman is too intoxicated to consent or object. Researchers at the University at Buffalo’s… Read More
Child Abuse: Red Alert
Rachel Arora reports from Inda on child abuse: There are millions of children in the world who are victims of child abuse in one way or the other. What does it take for someone to carry out such a horrendous crime? Children are vulnerable and they easily bestow their trust in others. Do those villains,… Read More
The Ethics of Liberty
I quote an excerpt from chapter 12 of The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard: If every man has the absolute right to his justly-held property it then follows that he has the right to keep that property — to defend it by violence against violent invasion. Absolute pacifists who also assert their belief… Read More
67 Percent of Sex Assault Victims are Under 18
Chuck Plunkett and Jeffrey A. Roberts recently wrote an article about the sexual assault of children: …the most likely victims of sexual abuse — by far — remain young children. A review of about 55,000 reported cases of rape and sex assault in 2004 shows that about 67 percent of all sex victims are 17… Read More
D.C. Gun Ban Overturned
Newstandardnews.com reports: On the basis of Second Amendment protections, a US appeals court has struck down Washington, DC’s ban on owning most handguns. The case will likely to go to the Supreme Court, which would address the scope of the amendment for the first time in nearly 70 years. If the ruling is upheld there,… Read More
Identity Theft
Identity theft could happen to anyone. It is a criminal offense in which a person intends to acquire an identification of another person and uses it without proper authorization as he adopts it as it was his own. Most often, the purpose is for financial gain. A criminal may gather information by tapping a phone… Read More
Surviving a Mugging
Julia Feldmeier writes interviews Carol Middleton about surviving a mugging: I spoke with Carol Middleton, the 30-year veteran director of the DC Self-Defense Karate Association. Here are some of her tips on staying safe: Let go! Middleton is a karate black belt, and yet when she was mugged 10 years ago, she quickly acquiesced. Later… Read More