Jumping the Gun - Losing Our Soul

Something has happened to America's foundation and it was quite evident at the V-Tech convocation. Something's wrong when people are trying to turn the targedy of V-Tech into a political form for gun control and safety.

How To Defend Oneself Against Physical Assault

Once you choose a method necessary to use on your attacker, react quickly and efficiently. Defend yourself with whatever means is reasonable and necessary. Do so in order to stop the assault and not to kill the attacker.

Why is Knowledge of Self Defense Important?

There are self defense classes that are taught specifically for the female community where no men are allowed to take. The class should also teach self defense methods catered to females who are short in stature. The reason for that is that a potential assailant statistically is taller in stature than his female victim.

What Could Drive Seung Hui Cho to Kill?

What went on in the mind of this young man? What could possibly drive him to a mentally depressed state that ultimately lead to him to snap as he did? Is it possible that he did not have a good home life? Was he a victim of bullyism in school similar to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students to whom Cho refers as martyrs, from the Columbine incident?

School Security Cameras - Do Studies and Surveillance Mesh?

Do security cameras belong in schools? The answer to this continues to be the subject of heated debates. Parents and legislators are all for the installation of school security cameras while students and teachers vehemently oppose it. The issue is one that strikes a very powerful chord in schools everywhere, and echoes the dilemma that confront lawmakers on a national scale. Which is more important - safety or personal privacy?

The Rise In Popularity Of Free Street Fights On Home Video

The onset of technology is such that many simply use the high tech gadgets to video tape everything and anything that fancies their imagination. In fact young kids as young as eleven and twelve years are quite an expert in handling these equipments and the scary thing is they have such an assortment of street fight footages starting from silly and fun filled tussles to real, ugly fights and they keep stock of these fight tapes and CD's as one would collect stamps as a hobby.

Science and Convictions

Science has come a long way in helping authorities catch the culprits. Other than relying on witness testimony, juries have looked to scientific facts that have been able to speak louder on a witness stand in order to convince them to convict or acquit a defendant.

What Kinds Of People Target Children On The Internet?

Are the people who target children online the kind of people we think they are? Or are they everyday people - people we see all over our communities every day?

The Top 10 Myths about the Virginia Tech Massacre

There have been some very strong reactions among the American citizenry, not to mention the South Koreans who feel a collective sense of guilt (needlessly) about Cho's Virginia Tech murders and suicide. The expected calls for stricter regulations and the finger-pointing emerged immediately while relatives, friends, and fellow students grieved for their lost ones. But who is offering real solutions? Are most people thinking rationally, considering the facts, at this stage?

How to Grow a Soldier

The ingredients necessary to grow children into adults willing to do violence to other human beings. As a person with both behavior management expertise and over three decades in the martial arts, I may have a slightly different perspective than the average person does. Let's put a completely fictitious society together designed to increase violence in their children to the point where they are willing to kill other human beings.

What to Ask When Choosing a Home Alarm Company

After your new alarm system is installed, you will have an added sense of security in deterring potential break-ins. A home alarm system is a valuable tool in fighting crime especially when you leave your house to go to the supermarket, on vacation, to your job, or anywhere away from your home.

Shame

shooting of two teenage boys

Why Paris Hilton's Sentence is the Right One

Paris Hilton believes that she has been wrongly imprisoned as she did not understanned she was banned from driving. But was she placing herself above the law by ignoring the terms of her probation?

Street Savvy Safety Tips - ACPR for Crime with anticrime tactics to avoid becoming a target!

Two former Chicago Police Decoys explain how to avoid becoming the target of a criminal. Topics include pickpockets, carjackers, women's safety tips, elevators, travel safety and many other subjects for men , women , seniors and children on how to stay safe.

Imprisonment - What is the Point?

Imprisonment in modern society is on the increase, therefore certainly a topic worth writing about. Punishment is depicted as an intense collective phenomenon driven by irrational forces. It was seen as rituals expressing the furious moral outrage of the group against those who had violated its sacred moral order.