Your child going off to college can be a very proud moment in a parent’s life but at the same time a very same time a stressful one. There is something reassuring about knowing your child is going to walk through that door every night. When your child leaves for school that reassuring feeling does go out the window to some degree. You’re miles away and although you have the ability to call you obviously have concerns about your child’s safety, especially if it’s a daughter. Not that you don’t worry about a son’s safety but the fact of the matter is that the average female may be more prone to attack and less capable of physically handling one should one occur. With that said my son will not be attending college without a personal alarm packed in his suitcase. In fact that will be one of the stipulations to me paying for his education.
The majority of college campuses I would consider to be safe places but tell that to the parents of students who have been assaulted, mugged, raped or murdered on campus and you will no doubt hear a different opinion. The fact of the matter is that no place on this earth is entirely immune to tragic events. However there is something we can do to help ensure our children are not victims of these events and doing so is entirely affordable and so easy it is literally insane not to do. Purchase a personal alarm and stress to your college student the importance of carrying it. The fact that many personal alarms are attachable to key chains should make this very easy.
Personal alarms vary somewhat in color, shape and size but for the most part are meant to be easily-carried handheld devices that emit extremely high decibel alarms when activated by the user. They are not a stun device or defensive spray or anything that could possibly harm the user or another individual. If you think that means that these devices cannot be as effective as a stun device or defensive spray then I must tell you that you are dead wrong. Let’s say, for example, a potential rapist should be out late at night, carousing the campus looking for a young female victim and this scumbag happens to stumble upon a young lady with a 130 decibel key chain alarm. Let’s just say that when this 130 decibel personal key chain alarm is activated it will be heard by anyone within screaming distance. 120 decibels is the decibel level emitted by a jet airplane on a runway. 10 decibels louder than that is going to scare the hell out of that attacker and probably see him run in fear. If not it’s certainly going to attract the attention of everyone around and security will no doubt be on its way.
So please do yourself and your loved ones a favor and be sure they are equipped with such a service when heading off to school.
Sat Safe,
Puzek Security Systems
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Personal Alarms Are My Favorite Protection For College Students
A person’s college experience should be a joyful one. I oftentimes reminisce about my own college experience. Unfortunately I can only remember about 7 minutes of the 6 years I spent obtaining my associates degree in communications but those 7 minutes were very special, I think. My point is that college should be spent enjoying oneself and not worrying about the possibility of being mugged while walking back to ones dorm from a late night study session. In a perfect world a college student wouldn’t have to worry about arming themselves with a tool of non-lethal self-defense but we don’t live in a perfect world and one needs look no further than the nightly news to know that our college campuses are not always the safe haven they should be.
So what is the solution? How can I as a parent ensure my child’s safety while he or she is away at school? One solution would be to have him or her carry around a firearm. That is a great solution if you enjoy breaking the law, are an out-of-your-mind lunatic and enjoy endangering your children and those around them. A much saner, safer and legal solution would be to arm your child with a completely harmless yet effective personal alarm.
Personal alarms are small handheld alarms used to deter potential attackers by emitting an extremely loud alarm that both attracts the attention of anyone within screaming distance and scaring the bejeezus out of the attacker. Many personal alarms are 130 decibels or more. That’s loud enough to be heard from a quarter mile away or more. For comparison purposes, a subway train roars by at approximately 95 decibels, a loud rock concert pumps out about 115 decibels and a jet engine is about 140 decibels. So when Mr. Attacker wants to play he’s going to have an audience as soon as something as loud as a jet engine goes off two feet from his face and we both know that scumbag doesn’t want an audience.
One thing you notice on college campuses these days that did not exist in my day is the emergency phones used to call for help. That is a wonderful measure taken by schools to ensure their students safety but may not always be accessible in the case of an actual attack. Personal alarms on the other hand are as accessible as your pocket, purse or key chain.
So if you are a college student or a parent of a college student please take the time to equip that student with a personal alarm that costs less than any textbook sitting in their dorm and could potentially save their life one day.
Stay Safe,
Puzek Security Systems
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
When Is It Okay To Buy A Taser For A College Student?
I am a firm believer that every responsible, able-bodied, law abiding citizen having the right, if not the responsibility, to carry some form of non-lethal self defense on them at almost all times. A college student on campus is certainly no exception but I do feel that special care and consideration be used when deciding just which tool of self defense be considered. And to some degree which students should be allowed to carry such tools.
First of all lets get this out of the way. If you have ever in your life been convicted of a crime than you are out of luck. I don’t think you should be allowed to carry any self defense weapons. Not pepper spray, not mace, not a stun device, nothing. You have proven through your prior actions that at some point in your life (and if you’re a college student it had to be somewhat recently) that you have the ability practice extremely poor judgment. I don’t want you carrying anything that could be used as a weapon or hurting someone accidentally because you are a numb-skull that doesn’t know how to handle such weapons in a responsible and safe manner.
For the responsible college student, especially females who find themselves walking on campus alone at night, I suggest a defensive spray. Stun devices, especially tasers, are a very touchy subject and for good reason. They are dangerous and in some rare cases have proven fatal. That concerns me greatly and I won’t lie when I say I am conflicted when asked if I think college students should be able to carry tasers as a means of self defense.
Lets first explain just what a taser is. A taser is a stun device that works by shooting barbs, attached to wires, from the device. These barbs embed themselves into the assailants skin (or clothes) and a non-lethal, high voltage current of electricity is passed through the wires, into the assailants body causing the assailant to lose neuromuscular control, hence rendering them incapable of further attack. That sounds as humane a treatment as any attacker deserves in my opinion.
The problem is would be in deciding which students would be allowed to carry tasers. I would have to admit that the majority of guys I hung out with in college should not have had tasers and I’m glad they didn’t. I’m still friends with many of them. I’m not saying these kids were bad people but just a little goofy and didn’t aways practice the best judgment at all times, as was the case with so many of us in college. I could just see one of these guys drunkenly asking to be tased as a sign of his drunken manliness. They didn’t have criminal records though so if we were to make a clean criminal past be the only prerequisite for carrying a taser these kids would be greenlit to carry tasers and then trouble would naturally ensue. It would just be too difficult to give the right to some and not to others.
What about the 18 year ol female walking on the campus at night though? I firmly beleive she should have the right, and the obligation to herself and those that love her, to carry something to defend herself with. Pepper spray works wonderfully in stopping an attack and is non-lethal. A stun device like a stun gun works just as well if not better. I am talking about a stun gun now not a taser. A stun gun does not project anything. It simply needs to make contact with the attacker to do it’s job. Other than that it’s basically the same thing as a taser. Why I think a stun gun is more acceptable than a taser for a colllege student has much to do with the whole projectile aspect of the weapons.
As a distributor of non-lethal weapons I am almost embarrased that I’m not more decisive about the subject of tasers on campus but it is just a very delicate subject that one should remain open minded about and consider all angles and ramifications of before making a decision to buy a taser for a college student.
Stay Safe.
Puzek Security Systems
First of all lets get this out of the way. If you have ever in your life been convicted of a crime than you are out of luck. I don’t think you should be allowed to carry any self defense weapons. Not pepper spray, not mace, not a stun device, nothing. You have proven through your prior actions that at some point in your life (and if you’re a college student it had to be somewhat recently) that you have the ability practice extremely poor judgment. I don’t want you carrying anything that could be used as a weapon or hurting someone accidentally because you are a numb-skull that doesn’t know how to handle such weapons in a responsible and safe manner.
For the responsible college student, especially females who find themselves walking on campus alone at night, I suggest a defensive spray. Stun devices, especially tasers, are a very touchy subject and for good reason. They are dangerous and in some rare cases have proven fatal. That concerns me greatly and I won’t lie when I say I am conflicted when asked if I think college students should be able to carry tasers as a means of self defense.
Lets first explain just what a taser is. A taser is a stun device that works by shooting barbs, attached to wires, from the device. These barbs embed themselves into the assailants skin (or clothes) and a non-lethal, high voltage current of electricity is passed through the wires, into the assailants body causing the assailant to lose neuromuscular control, hence rendering them incapable of further attack. That sounds as humane a treatment as any attacker deserves in my opinion.
The problem is would be in deciding which students would be allowed to carry tasers. I would have to admit that the majority of guys I hung out with in college should not have had tasers and I’m glad they didn’t. I’m still friends with many of them. I’m not saying these kids were bad people but just a little goofy and didn’t aways practice the best judgment at all times, as was the case with so many of us in college. I could just see one of these guys drunkenly asking to be tased as a sign of his drunken manliness. They didn’t have criminal records though so if we were to make a clean criminal past be the only prerequisite for carrying a taser these kids would be greenlit to carry tasers and then trouble would naturally ensue. It would just be too difficult to give the right to some and not to others.
What about the 18 year ol female walking on the campus at night though? I firmly beleive she should have the right, and the obligation to herself and those that love her, to carry something to defend herself with. Pepper spray works wonderfully in stopping an attack and is non-lethal. A stun device like a stun gun works just as well if not better. I am talking about a stun gun now not a taser. A stun gun does not project anything. It simply needs to make contact with the attacker to do it’s job. Other than that it’s basically the same thing as a taser. Why I think a stun gun is more acceptable than a taser for a colllege student has much to do with the whole projectile aspect of the weapons.
As a distributor of non-lethal weapons I am almost embarrased that I’m not more decisive about the subject of tasers on campus but it is just a very delicate subject that one should remain open minded about and consider all angles and ramifications of before making a decision to buy a taser for a college student.
Stay Safe.
Puzek Security Systems
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