Articles in the ‘Home Security’ Category

As soon as a relative of mine was mugged on her way home from her workplace in Fairfax, our entire family got pretty shook up. Not just did my cousin’s attacker grabbed her bag and also her laptop, he also shoved her really hard, making her tumble and break both arms and a leg.

To be able to achieve success, I thought that it was normal to be buried in work. But, as soon as I had a near-death encounter after being attacked while going back home at night from the office, I saw that life is too short.

It is usual for me, being a film-making student in Los Angeles, to have my evenings at school to complete many projects and presentations. Unfortunately, this is also a security concern for me given that I need to take public transportation at a very late hour.

During one of my most recent fights with assailants out on the street, I became victim to what appeared to be a whole new strategy of theirs. Making use of weapons just like slingshots, they would attack from afar, disable me and then loot me while I am down.

My own sister was date-raped while she was seventeen year old. It is difficult for us to listen to her cries during the wee hours of the morning or her screams every time she was having a nightmare. Her terrible story made me an advocate of self-defense weapons and of finding out how to defend oneself.