How to Stop an Attacker From Hurting you
How to Stop an Attacker From Hurting You

Use the human body to buy you time to run

Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash

The city of Dallas, like many other major cities worldwide, has had a high incidence of deadly home invasions over the last several years and this continues to be a problem for the Dallas residents and police department now in 2020.

Many of these invasions occur with the residents of those homes at HOME at the times of the crimes.

Unfortunately, many of those residents are shot and killed in their own homes and it takes much effort with too little staff for the Dallas PD to stop the streak of terror.

We are all aware as American citizens of the tragedy of frequent occurrence of mass shootings in our country and violent crime that surrounds us and our communities every day.

As unfortunate as these facts are, the larger truth is that the hopeless state our communities are in where so many families and individuals are daily lacking food, shelter, and adequate healthcare has evoked criminal desperation in those most vulnerable with the notion to do so.

Rampant drug and sex trafficking and crime, in general, are also NOT at an all-time low as President Trump will proverbially tweet-claim.

I do not believe in living in fear, but that said, I do believe in staying privy to the most recent risks to my home, family and our lives…and I also believe in readiness.

In my years as a nurse and as a parent, due to the risks, I encountered performing home visits in many dangerous areas and having been the single parent to small children and no man in the house at the time, I have mulled over the prospect of having to hand-to-hand combat an intruder or an attacker.

I have also imagined having to circumvent tragedy to myself or one of my kids if we are involved in a mass shooting outdoors or in a public place.

I have created scenarios in my head that I feel keep help to keep me in check with the reality of this life and its many dangers.

There are many ways an individual can be attacked or threatened. Some of those ways are in public, on the street or in an alley, or at a public place where others are gathered, getting in or out of one’s car anywhere, arriving to a new acquaintance’s home or being in some other unfamiliar place, or even in your own home or walking to or standing at a bus stop.
['Christina Vaughn', 'Nurse', 'Freelance Writer']
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