Prison Chaplains - Volunteer Assistants - Opportunity for Ministry

There are many facets open for volunteer service in prison ministry. A quick inventory of your interests, concerns, and spiritual gifts will help to determine how you can best serve. There are opportunities to minister directly with the prisoner in the prison setting. This can be done in several ways. You may participate in the facilities' visitation program. Or you can involve yourself in a variety of volunteer programs.

How to Tell If a Car Up For Sale is Stolen

Not all stolen vehicles are stolen and stripped for parts. Many are resold to unknowing and unsuspecting buyers. You can be arrested if you knowingly purchase a stolen vehicle. If you buy a stolen car unknowingly, you could lose the car and your money.

Understanding Soft Body Armor

Many people are surprised when they handle soft body armor for the first time. In the first place it's not really all that soft but more importantly it is relatively flexible and lightweight and, as such, seems unlikely to be effective. How can cloth, which is essentially what this stuff is, stop anything, much less a bullet? Even more mystifying to the equation is that soft body armor cannot stop arrows or knives but it does stop the most common types of bullets!

What To Do If A Gunman Walks Into Your Classroom

Even without training, I would have imagined that someone in that predicament would have at least tried to stop the shooter.

American Prejudices Against Asians

When we look at the events at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, we must question what role, if any, did racial prejudice play in Seung Hui Cho's criminal actions? He claimed in his letters and writings to have been taunted and teased by his peers. Was this due to his ethnicity? Could negative stereotypes of Asians have influenced how Cho was treated by his peers, or could it have been a factor in why he was so reserved and withdrawn. Sometimes, even perceived prejudice can play a very large part in how a person acts in social situations.

School Security Cameras - Do Studies and Surveillance Mesh?

Do security cameras belong in schools? The answer to this continues to be the subject of heated debates. Parents and legislators are all for the installation of school security cameras while students and teachers vehemently oppose it. The issue is one that strikes a very powerful chord in schools everywhere, and echoes the dilemma that confront lawmakers on a national scale. Which is more important - safety or personal privacy?

Why is Knowledge of Self Defense Important?

There are self defense classes that are taught specifically for the female community where no men are allowed to take. The class should also teach self defense methods catered to females who are short in stature. The reason for that is that a potential assailant statistically is taller in stature than his female victim.

Is The Virginia Tech Massacre A Harbinger Of Things To Come?

Our educational systems may be contributing to the rearing of kids with almost monster-like personality traits. Are metal detectors and gun control the answer? Or are we missing the real dangers?

The Virginia Tech Nightmare and The 2nd Amendment - Could Concealed Carry Permits Have Prevented it?

Could a legally armed student or teacher have prevented the massacre? I think so.

The War Is Knock, Knock, Knockin' At Your Door

While the issues leading to violence are complex and not easily resolved, keeping safe on the street is a little clearer. Either you fight to survive, or you become another innocent victim in the war.

More Sting Operations Needed to Entrap Crooked Bureaucrats on the Take

Everyone knows or should have known that the bureaucracy is not the savior of our civilization that has been widely reported and purported over the last century. This does not mean that the United States is not the greatest nation in the world because it certainly is. Rather it is time to demand accountability and transparency in our government.

Frequently Practice Using Pepper Spray as Martial Art

As with any martial art, practice makes perfect. If you choose pepper spray as your primary method of defense, think of its use as a weapons martial art. Through frequent practice of drawing, positioning the spray in your hand, and firing the pepper spray, you will put up a good fight against your attacker.

Ideal Age of a Pepper Spray User

Concern for one's own safety or the safety of his loved ones should be a priority. With crime rates escalating to new highs, and with more low-income families moving into your neighborhood that once catered to the middle or upper class, one must be on guard in defense of himself or family members.

Kubotan - Self-Defense Power in the Palm of Your Hand

Have you ever heard of a Kubotan, min-stick, or self-defense keychain? Whether you have or haven't... Imagine a night, like any other night. The cool air, perhaps a light breeze, with only the sights and sounds of the city for company. A solitary figure walks alone along an apparently empty street. Until, out of the shadows, another figure appears and the unthinkable happens. An assault is about to occur to another innocent, peaceful person seeking only to get where they're going.

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind - Airport Security Is Watching You But Who Is Watching Them?

Only a small handful of the 459 federalized commercial airports under the TSA jurisdiction utilize any type of video surveillance systems in secured baggage areas, leaving screeners and handlers free to open any piece of luggage, largely undetected.