Self Defense Products - Who Else Needs Some Self Defense Products?

By Jack Krohn

Self defense products are non lethal by nature. Their purpose is to allow the user time to escape from a possibly life threatening situation and seek help not to injure or maim.

Law enforcement agencies throughout the country, indeed the whole world, use a wide array of self defense products like stun guns, pepper sprays, tear gas, batons, and tasers. Tasers for example are used by over 11,000 law enforcement agencies as of November 2007.

National Guard forces and military units in the United States and military agencies throughout the world use self defense products like pepper spray, tear gas, batons for crowd control and general law enforcement.

WHY? It is easy to explain - THEY WORK.
Self defense products provide another alternative to deadly force. As such they save lives.

SO WHY SHOULD YOU HAVE ONE?
Crime is up all over the country. Law enforcement agencies are stretched way beyond their capacity due to a shortage of qualified personnel and in some cases financial cutbacks.

Here are some facts every parent of a college age child should know.

--One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.
--One out of eight women will be raped while in college.
--84% of women who were raped knew their assailant.
--57% of rapes occur on a date.
--75% of male students and 55% of female students involved in date rape had been drinking or using drugs.

These are the reported figures. There is a lot of data suggesting that most rapes go unreported. One study showed that only 5 % of victims of rape or attempted rape report it to college police.

But EVERY woman is a potential target of these perverted assailants. An assault occurs every 29 seconds. Most sexual assaults can be avoided by using some common sense and being armed with knowledge of what to avoid and armed with some non lethal self defense weapons.

According to Bureau of Justice statistics 17 percent of women can expect to be raped in their lifetime. In 2004 for every 1000 people there is one rape or sexual assault, two assaults with injury and 2 robberies-that's a one in five chance that you are going to be next.

When you stop to think about how often an assault, sexual assault or rape occurs the statistics are amazing and scary.

WHO NEEDS SELF DEFENSE PRODUCTS?
Who do you know that could use a self defense product to defend yourself in the event of an attack? Your wife, girlfriend, daughter, aunt, YOU? The fact is almost everyone on this list could use some help.

Walkers, runners, joggers or anyone who loves to be outdoors. You place yourself as a potential target just because of what you love to do.

Shift workers, locksmiths, repo agents, fugitive recovery agents, or anyone else that might work unusual hours and leave themselves exposed to danger because of their work. Anyone who does offsite banking for their business, day and night managers, OTR drivers, delivery drivers, and anyone who drives for a living are all at elevated risk.

Education professionals, medical professionals, real estate pros, entrepreneurs, stay at home moms, single working women, college students, all have higher than average risk because of their jobs and who they are-women.

Not everyone needs a self defense product. Only those who work or are retired; only those who own their own business or work for someone else; only those who rent or those who own their own home; only those who are single or those who are married need them.

Everyone else is probably okay.

Jack Krohn is the #1 author of Home Security Articles in the country. He owns SECURITY SOLUTIONS, a one stop resource that provides solutions and answers for all your self defense and home security problems.

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