Unfortunately personal attacks are a very ordinary anti-social behavior in our culture nowadays. Whichever form it may be, a robbery or assault, it is one of the most insidious invasions of our individual safety. Why do some individuals become a victim of personal attack while others do not? How do predators choose their quarry? Culprits have a feel for noticing the signs of potential prey. You need to know what these signals are so you can refrain from becoming the next victim of a personal attack.
Thugs look for easy marks. Someone who appears to be defenseless, supine and unmindful to the activities going on around. They want a target who is not capable or is too nonviolent to fight back. This type of person is easy to attack by surprise. It’s important to know that your possibility for becoming a victim is influenced by the unconscious signals you protrude to a predator. Body language and non-verbal cues are unconscious signals that make up 80-90% of our communication. Either knowingly or unknowingly, assailants will form an assessment about you from these signals to determine how easy you will be to overpower and master.
Fortunately there are ways to lessen your chances of being on the receiving end of a violent crime. If crooks look for potential prey who appears to be powerless, vulnerable and naive, then you must project the reverse of that. One way is to convey an air of confidence. Self-assurance is a non-victim quality. The more confident or self-assured one appears, the less likely are the chances of becoming “the mark”. A mugger will avoid a subject who appears capable of resistance and difficult to subdue. Any display of strength or defiance, whether blatant or implied, is often sufficient to cause a culprit to seek out an easier target. A way to project self-confidence is by walking briskly with a purpose, with your head held upright and looking alert.
Another way to reduce the likelihood of becoming a “statistic” is to be keenly aware of your surroundings at all times. Being more aware allows you better opportunity of spying a potential assaulter and you also project an image of vigilance. Pay attention to who is around you and what events are going on at all times. Make eye contact with everyone who is walking toward you. Villains are looking for a target who isn’t paying attention and are unaware of what’s going on around them. So put away the “electronic gizmos!” Get off the cell phone, iPod, PDA and laptop. They are a distraction. Using these gadgets in public places like parking garages, malls, parks, etc., can lessen your ability to spot potential danger and makes you an easy mark. If you are distracted and not paying attention you might not even realize you are going to be attacked until it is too late to escape.
Besides projecting an air of poise and watchfulness, an additional boundary of protection is to carry a few top selling personal security items with you, such as a personal attack alarm, a canister of mace pepper spray and a self defense stun gun.
A personal attack alarm is the ideal self-protection device for attracting attention to yourself when it needed most. These small, affordable alarms are easily carried and release a deafening and abhorrent noise when set off.
Pepper spray is a non-lethal defensive aerosol that is made from oleoresin capsicum (OC), a chemical compound of pepper plants. When sprayed in an attacker’s face or eyes, self defense spray will irritate the eyes causing profuse tearing, pain and even short-term sightlessness.
A stun gun is a defensive weapon designed to momentarily immobilize a predator by delivering a non-lethal, high-voltage electric shock. Keep in mind, that these self protection tools will not keep you safe if you do not use them.
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