Survival Options:
Overview
of
Worst-Case Scenarios
A sudden threat often makes people freeze, panic, or react feebly. The Survival Options on these pages will help you quickly choose between Posturing, Fleeing, Outsmarting, Surrendering, or Fighting. It’s better to know this and not need it, than to need it and not know it. Learning your options now is far better than trying to make life-and-death decisions during a crisis. Let’s blow away the naïveté of the prey:
Crime Prevention Tips for Victims of Violent Crimes
• Survival Options - Overview (YOU’RE NOW ON THIS PAGE) of the do-or-die realities of worst-case crises.
• Shooting Rampage: seven options for surviving.
• Hostage Taking: the slightest edge makes all the difference in survival.
• Hostage Escape: optimizing hostage survival and escape.
• Kidnapping avoidance and prevention.
• Kidnap Escape: optimizing kidnap survival and escape.
• SOS Distress Signals for summoning help in all situations.
• Surviving the Worst: options for the worst of the worst-case scenarios: fighting for your life; and gang attack.
• Recap of Options for Survival.“Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial." ... If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is OK, but you must understand the price you pay. When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die...”
– Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of “On Killing.”
Personal Safety Devices
Enhancing Your Survival Options:
Pepper Spray & a Noisemaker visibly ready will greatly enhance your first option – Posturing as a tough target – and probably deter a predator immediately. Your fifth option – Fighting – is enhanced as well.For convenience, learn self-defense ONLINE: 
KRAV MAGA, a practical self-defense system used by many police forces worldwide, teaches you to defend yourself, enhances your survival instinct, and can be applied under extreme stress. It's not flashy, just very effective. I highly recommend it. The Krav Maga TV - Online Training videos are especially convenient to learn at home when your schedule allows or if you don't live near a training center. Go to
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Hostage Taking |
Hostage Survival |
Kidnapping |
Kidnap Survival |
SOS Distress Signals |
Surviving the Worst |
Survival Options - Recap |
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