This is an article by the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault on a bill to end domestic violence and sexual assault. DUH! Is there anybody in the world who isn't against this? It's nice that they're passing a bill about this but why don't they actually do something to stop the predators. Women are consistently the targets of violence in 90% of...

Here's a newspaper article about a police officer named Cynthia Flores who is speaking to college freshmen about resources available to them to keep them safe on campus. She pointed out that "Sexual assaults are a particular problem for college women. Flores said that one in four women will be sexually assaulted during their college years and that in about 90 percent...

Here is some useful information on how to determine the relative hotness of the pepper spray. For years the general hotness rating was called the Scoville heat unit or SHU. This is common measure of hotness of anything. A habanero pepper, for example, has a SHU of 500,000. Sounds like a lot doesn't it? That is one of the hottest peppers going....

This is a story about how a young co-ed was assaulted in her own door room at the University of New Hampshire campus. This is the same campus that vice president Biden touted as such a safe campus. An astonishingly high number of co-eds will be assaulted on college campuses this year and every year-just the nature of the beast. You can...

This is a story about a how a 17-year-old was riding his bicycle when two men jumped out of a car and started assaulting him and then robbed him. This happened in Pittsfield, Maine. The men who did the assault are awaiting arraignment. The 17-year-old was stabbed in the leg and is recovering. You can read the whole story HERE. We have...

Here's an article we published recently about the choices available for nonlethal personal defense. You can read the whole article HERE. The article talks about the three basic self-defense items-stun devices, pepper sprays and alarms-available the marketplace today with a little information about tasers which we treat is a subset of stun devices. It talks about what the self defense items can...