Posted on 10/12/2013 12:45:16 PM PDT by Q-ManRN
Experts have advice for women, such as Crews and Duff, when it comes to protecting yourself from a potential sexual assault or abduction.
"Really some of the simplest techniques to use are just walk with confidence. Don't be a target in how you're walking. Don't close yourself off, hunch over, don't seem timid or scared from the environment. Walk with authority," said Tina Toth, who is a sexual assault counselor for the Rape Crisis Center.
She adds that predators tend to act on opportunity, so finding ways to limit your vulnerability is important.
Other safety and self-defense practices include having a buddy system in place if you are leaving work or a location late at night, as well as staying in-touch with friends and/or family if you are in an unfamiliar area and letting them know how long you plan to stay there and when you plan to leave.
(Excerpt) Read more at carolinalive.com ...
Stand your ground and take them out. They won’t attack anyone ever again.
Carry yourself upright = don’t let the weight of the Ladysmith in your shoulder holster affect your posture...
The second - and third and fourth - defense against rape includes a loaded .38.
Never a mention of the most effective way to defend yourself. A GUN. Amazing.
“Never a mention of the most effective way to defend yourself. A GUN.”
With one in the chamber ready to go!
Even moreso, as a CCW instructor tells her students, “whether you’re carrying or not, always walk and act as if you are”.
My comment:
“What? No mention of Sam Colt’s “equalizer,” that made the 100 pound woman the equal of the 300 pound brute? My wife and millions of women have not been brainwashed into physical defenselessness. Awareness and posture are fantastic, but in the end, it’s a firearm that makes a rapist, or a gang of rapists, stop an attack.”
Check out Matt Bracken’s (FR’s Travis McGee) comment at bottom of article.
I’m too slow...see #8 above.
Walk with Authority.
and a 38 between your 38s.
Good for your wife! The mainstream media still tries desperately to convince women that self defense with a firearm is frowned upon by most women. However, women are wisely dispelling that ridiculous myth.
Samuel Colt understood the best way to end a violent attack is by stopping the attacker. Liberals say just submit to your attacker because submitting is what they do best.
April has not been assaulted yet, she will rethink all of her stupid tactics and resort to a firearm if this should ever happen, thank you
That is the right idea!
I am convinced that in an urban defense situation, it is essential to have a gun *and* a knife. And you absolutely must have situational awareness.
If they sneak up behind you and bonk you on the head, you lose.
If they leap out at you, you can draw a knife very quick, and if they see it and jump back, you can draw your gun.
If they close on you quickly with a knife, even at short range you can likely also get your knife.
If they are further away and charge, within 25 feet, knife, and outside 25 feet, gun.
If they have a gun and yours is concealed, you still have a lot of advantages.
I told my Daughter around 30 years ago to be aware at all times, to run and scream if she could. I also gave her a Colt Agent which she could shoot very well.
I told her it was illegal in most places to carry it in your purse or person. It would be up to her to decide.
Not sure if it was the best advice but you just never know for sure. For some reason she always liked knives even to this day she still does. A gun is better tho.
I hope that April does not find out the hard way. I fear for these liberal women sometimes. Idealism does not protect them from violence.
I like that! Lol! And make sure your assailant is no longer upright.
When you are carrying your confidence is seen in the way you walk and make eye contact. They bad guys do “pick up” on this feeling of confidence. They are predators and look for the weak to prey upon.
Kel-Tec, Glock, Sig, Smith & Wesson, Colt etc are a woman’s best friend when predators are about. If you have on you, it is very unlikely that you will need to use it. If you do not have it when you need, you will be hurt, robbed, raped and perhaps worse up into including torture and death.
Ladies, if you do not have a concealed carry, get one. If you live in California, Massachutches, New York, Washington DC or Chicago, move.
I carry a golf club when I go for my walks, mainly for dogs, but I also walk with authority. But I am also prepared for anything.
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