Every day there are at least 100 victims of violent crimes throughout the U.S. Each year there are over 1,000 violent crimes committed in each region of the United States of America.
In many cases these statistics are results of alack of education on the part of the victims.
Although its not quite fair to say the ignorance of the victims brought about a warranted attack; it should be noted that many of these cases could have been avoided with the proper education or training.
The Ideal victim would be found in an isolated area with limited visibility.
Preferably the victim would be elderly and frail or young and female.
In each case the victim would be weak and defenseless.
In many situations its first impressions that separate those who are victims and those who are not.
In many violent crimes the aggressor is someone the victim is familiar with or knows.
The victim is often not only a victim of the violent crime but a victim of stalking as well.
It is not the victim’s fault it’s just most people do not know when they are the prey for a violent predator or stalker.
Many times when a victim is being stalked they minimize the situation, by telling themselves, “I’m just being harassed.” or “He’s harmless”.
In many cases, the signs were ignored; resulting in serious injury to the victim or death.
Then there are the cases where the victim has seen the signs and done everything that could be expected to do, up to the point where there is a physical confrontation between the victim and predator.
In many of these cases the victim was not trained in self-protection measures.
Then there are the few cases where the victim has done everything they could to protect themselves.
The wolf is forced to move on because the victim caused too much undue attention; or they fought hard enough or efficiently enough to make the attacker think twice and double back.
In any case, it’s clear that training and awareness is what separates those who are victims and those who are not.
In the cases where there were victims, it was “Too late for help” In cases where there were not victims, security measures were applied and what could have happened didn’t.
Then there are the cases where that never happened, because the “Would be” victim was situation ally aware and they knew how to apply proper security measures.
Are you going to be a victim or are you going to avoid the situation altogether?
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