Here's an article that was in US News and World Report last week about a major insurance company that paid out $109 million for dog bite claims in 2011. The number of claims and the amount paid for them is up from 2010. You can read the rest of the story HERE. There are some things you can do to protect yourself...

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'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...

Here's an article from the National Domestic Violence Hotline on 10 things you may not know about sexual assault. Some of them may surprise you. They surprised me!! You can read the whole story HERE. Here's something else you may not know about sexual assault. Almost all of them can be prevented by using some kind of self defense product. Mace Pepper...

Pepper sprays as a self defense item had their origins literally thousands of years ago, starting with the Chinese when they threw bags of hot spices that their enemies. They have been used for civilian self defense since the 1990s. So they're not a new product. They are however the most widely sold and used self defense product in the world. Pepper...