A harrowing experience helped me discover that there was an urgent necessity to prevent crime against college students. For eight years, I thought of the university where I educated others in Humanities as secure. But my own daughter was threatened with a knife in that very same place.
She was accosted by a complete stranger in one of the restrooms, demanding money for her life. She had gone quite early, ahead of a 7 AM class, and while she prayed for someone to walk in on them, no one came.
She had a pepper spray, having brought various self defense devices everyday since we started discussing within the family the importance to prevent crime against college students, just before she went to college herself.
She made an excuse that she had to reach into her pocket to get her money. Then, she took out her pepper spray and used it with vigor. It’s a good thing she had mastered using the defense spray.
Once the assaulter had his eyes shut, my daughter turned on her personal alarm and ran a great distance towards the main entrance, where she knew a security guard would have been stationed and tasked to prevent crime against college students.
He was caught and questioned quickly. It was discovered that he needed the cash to get some hallucinogens. It is because of these illegal drugs that I am adamant that the younger generation look into obtaining some tools to safeguard themselves.
I gave her a lift to the university then and even had my stun gun with me. Only, I was already en route to the professors’ lounge on the third floor at the moment of the attack.
In every class I have since taught, I make it a point to emphasize the use of self defense devices to prevent crime against college students. The lesson may not be a part of Humanities but is certainly essential to humanity.
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