Vacant houses attract crime and make it more difficult for neighbors to purchase homeowners insurance. Dan Immergluck of Georgia Tech and Woodstock Institute researcher Geoff Smith, an increase in the foreclosure rate to about 2.8 foreclosures for every 100 owner-occupied properties in one year corresponds to an increase in neighborhood violent crime of approximately 6.7 percent. Vacant properties can be attractive to vagrants, gangs, and drug users, providing a breeding ground for criminal activity. However, with determination and organization, citizens can fight back and eliminate crime in their neighborhoods. Realtors now carry pepper spray and are taking self defense lessons...

Ever since her husband died, Abby felt a little less safe in their brown brick townhouse. They had always wanted to live in the city together, so they saved up what they could to buy a fixer-upper in a blossoming neighborhood. Then David got sick. Before very long, Abby was on her own again. She wanted to hang on to the good memories of that house, feeling confident that she and her neighbors were driving the bad element off the block. Still, she always made sure she was prepared for the worst. And when the lights went out on her...

I’m sure you’ve heard of the 20 year old guy in Nebraska, who lost his job and his girlfriend so he decided to go to a busy mall and kill as many people as he could. It’s legal in Nebraska to carry a handgun if you have a concealed permit. However, the mall had a gun free zone. No guns in the mall. Once again, this kind of policy only keeps the honest citizen from bringing a gun in. The maniac feels free to bring one in...and he did! All gun control laws keep the honest citizen from defending himself...

First lets fully explain what a Taser is and how it works. Tasers work by shooting two darts that pierce the skin and deliver the charge directly into the muscle and nerves. While Tasers are thought the same a stun guns, they are not the same. Tasers are not only much more effective than other non-lethal self-defense devices, such as pepper sprays, but are much safer than a gun to keep around children. Tasers are designed to momentarily immobilize a person while they are subdued and for that reason are classified as non-lethal weapons and legal to carry in most...

In this article we compare the SWAT C8 Non Lethal Gun to other self defense products. In terms of being lethal the SWAT C8 along with Pepper Spray is low to non lethal whereas stun guns and Tasers have some degree of being lethal. Let’s explain first what the SWAT C8 pistol is. The SWAT-C8 launcher is a pistol-sized less-lethal device that shoots up to eight .68 caliber PAVA filled projectiles at 400 feet per second. The SWAT-C8’s proprietary PAVA filled projectiles are less-lethal and utilize a multiple deterrent system. The suspect, if hit with the PAVA projectile, will experience...

Crime statistics are staggering with 95,000 rapes reported every year in the U.S., 875,000 assaults, and 400,000 other violent crimes. Law Enforcement and people from all walks of like, young and old need a reliable personal protection gun that won’t kill their attacker but knock him out. There is a new self protection gun now available that is reliable and may possible save your life! It’s called the SWAT C8. SWAT is actually and acronym for the company Security With Advanced Technology. The new SWAT-C8 launcher is a pistol-sized personal-protection device that shoots up to eight .68 caliber PAVA filled...

If the sight and sound doesn’t stop him, a jolt from the stun gun described in this article certainly will. Stun guns use high voltage and low amperage to temporarily disable an attacker for several minutes. The stun gun does not rely on pain for results. The energy stored in the gun is dumped into the attackers muscles causing them to do a great deal of work rapidly. This rapid work cycle instantly depletes the attackers blood sugar by converting it to lactic acid. In short, he is unable to produce energy for his muscles, and his body is unable...

It’s official, violent crime including murder and robbery are up for the second year in a row. Nationwide, there is a 3% increase in murder and 6.5% increase in robbery. An estimated 1.4 million violent crimes including murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults happened in 2006 alone! All in all, violent crime nationwide increased by almost 2% last year and robbery increased 7% as violence rears it’s ugly head again as a major theme in large cities after more than a decade of decline. The reason is because of the breakup of the crack-cocaine drug markets and a bigger police...

Well with this gun you don’t have to be like Jodie Foster in the THE BRAVE ONE. Foster’s turn to prowl the city in a whirlwind of violence in the vigilante tale “The Brave One,” playing a woman who embarks on a bloody killing spree after recovering from an attack that killed her boyfriend and left her near death. With the Mace Pepper Gun you don’t kill anyone but this gun will give you a chance to get you attacker with a Mace bullet and leave him all messed up from the Mace. The best part is, it feels just...

You must take the law into your own hands these days. If you see the movie ‘The Brave One’ and ‘Death Sentence’ you know that our society is out of control, no one is safe. The true moral of the story is that you must be proactive and take matters into your own hands otherwise may suffer the same fate as the characters in the movies. ‘The Brave One’ is about a New York radio host Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) has a life that she loves and a fiance she adores. All of it is taken from her when a...