The ISP's (Illinois State Police) advice for women
For anyone who might have doubted me that this state has absolutely lost it--check this out.
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Fighting for your safety may be necessary. However, if you start out fighting you cancel any other options that might be open to you. Since many attacks on women are not sexually motivated, and are designed to degrade and humiliate, talking your way out of it may be easier.
* There is documentation of assailants that left a would-be-victim alone after she told him that she was pregnant and it would kill her baby. (Some
case were women that were too old to even have a baby.)
* Telling an attacker that you have VD or AIDS can discourage him.
* It may sound disgusting, but putting your fingers into you throat and making yourself vomit usually gets results. (This method is not often used except as a last resort.)
* Use your imagination and you can think of others.
The above methods are particularly important if your assailant has a gun or knife, or there is more than one attacker. (Fighting would probably be futile.)
If you must fight
Use of a firearm to protect yourself or property is not recommended.
* Guns stolen from residences are a primary way of getting guns into the hands of criminals.
* Half of all the women that fire a gun trying to protect themselves shoot someone they do not want to, i.e. friend, neighbors, relatives, etc.
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I actually think these people are serious!! This is not what my wife and daughter get when asking the same question, ya think?
