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Originally Posted by quntmphscs
I've travelled all over the world alone as well and let me tell you sometimes bad things do happen. Maybe you are lucky I don't know, but just because nothing has happened to you doesn't mean you dont' have to be cautious and protect yourself.
Most of the people I ran into were good. But you don't protect yourself from those people.
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The greater odds are that you will be attack and killed by someone you actually know. Some statistics to consider. When you are thinking about how dangerous that stranger is.
64% of women who reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked since age 18 were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, or date. Most perpetrators know their victims. According to the 2000 National Crime Victimization Survey, 62% of rape and sexual assault victims knew the perpetrator. More than 40% of rapes and sexual assaults came at the hands of a person the female victim called a friend or acquaintance. Female victims identified intimate partners as the perpetrator in 18% of rapes and sexual assaults
Domestic violence is the largest single cause of injury to women in the U.S.- more than injuries from auto accidents, muggings and rapes combined. (Surgeon General of the U.S.)
On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 1999, 1,642 murders were attributed to intimates; 74 percent of the murder victims. (Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 1993-99, October 2001)
Nearly one-third of all women murdered in the U.S. in 1998, were killed by a current or former intimate partner. Guns were used in almost two-thirds of these domestic homicides. (U.S. Dept. of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics; Homicide Trends in the U.S., Intimate Partner Homicide, 2001).
Bad things do happen. But usually it is not the stranger on the street or the escaped psycho in the woods that does it.
Be aware of ALL of your surroundings.
