In today's blog post we're discussing the two best cell phone stun guns that we carry. click for more info First one is this Samstun Cell Stun Gun that is 6,000,000 volts and is only 4 ½ inches tall and a half inch thick. It comes in black or pink. It weighs only 8 ounces. It is manufactured with a built-in LED flashlight and comes with the deluxe holster with clip for easy carrying. It is fully rechargeable so no batteries are needed. It also has the popular disable pin...
Here is an op-ed piece on Campus Sexual Assaults and U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Several weeks ago a question was raised about U.S. News & World Report college rankings and whether or not they should include campus sexual assaults. The U.S. News & World Report rankings are a hugely influential factor in how millions of people make college decisions every year. "Brian Kelly, the editor of U.S. News & World Report, just announced that U.S. News will not include campus sexual-assault data in it's annual college ranking...
If you could choose one weapon for self-defense, which would it be? For women the ability to defend themselves from a distance is very appealing. Most pepper sprays have a range of at least 8 feet some as high as 18 feet. Women have more opportunities to use a self-defense weapon because they are assaulted nine times more often than men. And if you need any more convincing consider this. Every law enforcement officer in the country carries a pepper spray on his utility belt. It is a key component...
In a recent cover story in Time.com on The Sexual Assault Crisis on American Campuses they labeled America's campuses as hazardous places. The truth is, for young women, particularly those who are 18 or 19 years old, just beginning their college experience, America’s campuses are hazardous places. Recent research shows that 1 in 5 women is the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault during college. That shocking number has students, parents and politicians questioning the way schools protect students and adjudicate the cases of sexual assault. Many people...
Here is a valuable safety tip from ABC's Good Morning America on how to avoid Pickpockets. "It can happen in a split second. A shopper leaves a purse open in a shopping cart and turns away for a moment, perhaps to browse the shelves or try a free sample, or maybe she's distracted by her phone, but that's all a pickpocket needs to reach into her purse and snag her wallet. The distracted, rushed world we live in makes shoppers easy prey, said Bob Arno, an expert in pickpocketing who...
This is an article out of a magazine that caters to teenagers about sexual assaults on college campuses. You can read the whole story HERE. We have been writing this topic for close to 10 years now, but it's finally starting to get some traction in support all the way up to the White House was Pres. Obama calling on schools across the country to address the problem. He created a task force known as the White House Council on women and girls. At the same time that was happening...
Here's a story out of the Los Angeles times where Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) called assaults on young women in colleges a Sexual Assault Epidemic. "The prevalence of sexual assault on campuses is an epidemic," Speier said in an interview. "It's going to take money, resources, enforcement and a dramatic change in the culture" to fix. Speier said research suggests that one in five women are sexually assaulted on campuses but that nearly two-thirds of universities shirk their legal duty to address the cases. Yet, she said national momentum is...
Here's a story from the Huffington Post about perceptions that young women have about Sexual Assaults. It raises one potential answer to why so many sexual assault crimes-nearly 250,000 a year ago-go unreported 60% of the time. The answer is many women do not see themselves as victims. A sociologist at Marquette University analyzed interviews with 100 girls between the ages of three and 17 who may have experienced sexual assault. Overwhelmingly, their accounts indicated sexual violence has been normalized in their communities and they considered harassment an everyday part...