5 Tips for Increasing Your Level of Safety and Self-Defense in These Uncertain Times

While we, as citizens, can do little more than show our support for the thousands of troops fighting our country's many battles around the world, each of us can take a more proactive role in dealing with the hostilities and assaults that are going on all around us right here at home. Here's a list of 5 tips for anyone who wants to make themselves more safe and secure, regardless of whether they're traveling or staying at home.

Sunbury, PA (PRWEB) August 25, 2006 -- Everywhere it seems, people share their concerns about "what the world has come to." With battles raging both across the sea in far-off lands and here on our own streets, it seems that more and more people are looking to the government to make them more safe and secure.

This, however, is the wrong place to be looking. As harsh as it sounds, when it comes to self-defense and so-called "homeland security," the responsibility for personal security and safety rests with the individual -- not with the government.

While we, as citizens, can do little more than show our support for the thousands of troops fighting our country's many battles around the world, each of us can take a more proactive role in dealing with the hostilities and assaults that are going on all around us right here at home. Here's a list of 5 tips for anyone who wants to make themselves more safe and secure, regardless of whether they're traveling or staying at home. This list is part of the "10 Tips for Increasing Your Level of Safety and Self-Defense," available from Warrior Concepts International's website.

Tips for Increasing Your Ability to Survive Danger

1. Acknowledge that danger exists in your world and has the potential of touching you or someone that you care about. Ignorance, when it comes to avoiding and escaping from danger, is not bliss.

2. Stay informed about the types of dangers, including criminal activity, prevalent in areas where you find yourself. Knowing what you're most likely to face is the first step to being able to handle it should it happen.

3. Establish multiple routes to and from the place you frequent most. As a minimum, everyone should have at least two routes to and from home and work. This makes it more difficult for you to be pinned down by someone who knows your routine.

4. Acknowledge that it's your responsibility, not that of the police, to keep yourself safe. As a former police officer I know that the police cannot keep you safe from anyone who truly wants to harm you. Realize that you, and you alone, will be the first one "on the scene" of the assault or other danger and responsible for dealing with the attack.

5. Learn a few tactics for effectively avoiding or escaping from danger that do not require physically fighting with your assailant. There are some very good books and videos available, like "Danger Prevention Tactics: Protecting Yourself Like a Pro," that can provide professional advice you can use to keep yourself more safe and secure.

In today's often violent world, self-defense is no longer a choice -- it's a responsibility. Accepting the reality that, with the addition of terrorism to the ever-present threat of gang activity, drug wars, and the myriad of other crimes of violence, it's each person's responsibility to be personally capable of defending themselves should that need arise.

Get the remainder of the "10 Tips for Increasing Your Level of Safety and Self-Defense" by going to www.warrior-concepts-online.com/10tips.html

For those interested in more information, the video "Danger Prevention Tactics: Protecting Yourself Like a Pro," is available through it's producer, Warrior Concepts International. The video is available through the company's website at: www.warrior-concepts-online.com/self-defense-video-dpt1.html

Jeffrey Miller is the founder and director of Warrior Concepts International, a professional consulting company specializing in teaching individuals and corporate clients how to be more safe and secure in Today's world. Mr. Miller is a former federal police officer and undercover investigator. He has worked as a private investigator and bodyguard in the private sector and is available as a consultant and speaker on the subjects of safety, private security, and personal self-defense. He may be reached through his website at www.warrior-concepts-online.com or by calling WCI at (570) 988-2228.

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