Status Updates From The Gift of Fear: And Other...

We trust security guards—you know, the employment pool that gave us the Son of Sam killer, the assassin of John Lennon, the Hillside Strangler, and more arsonists and rapists than you have time to read about. Has the security industry earned your confidence? Has government earned it?

"women visit emergency rooms for injuries caused by their husbands or boyfriends more often than for injuries from car accidents, robberies and rapes combined."

"if a full jumbo jet crashed into a mountain killing everyone on board, and if that happened every month, month in and month out, the number of people killed still wouldn’t equal the number of women murdered by their husbands and boyfriends each year."

In America, a woman is killed by a spouse every two hours.

When a man in our culture says no, its the end of a discussion. And when a woman in our culture says no, its the beginning of a negotiation.