Prepared not scared Your go-to guide for staying safe in an unsafe world

INTRODUCTION This book may save your life. Or the lives of those you care most about - your children, your parents, your spouse, an aunt or uncle. Or even the lives of complete and utter strangers--fellow passengers on a plane, happenstance commuters on a train, a passing pedestrian, or other guests at a restaurant or--if you're a born-and-raised New Yorker like me - the local neighborhood bodega. The point is not to scare you--If you've picked up this book, chances are you are all too aware of just how unsafe our world has become. Whether you are at home checking your social media accounts or abroad traveling for work or vacation, you quite simply are neither safe nor secure. Many of you reading this may have already experienced an attack on your own safety--from petty theft to sexual assault. Or, just by watching the nightly news, you've realized the routine you take for granted could be gone in an instant. Let's review a few sobering factoids. A person is robbed in America every 2 seconds. An aggravated assault takes place every 41 seconds. An innocent person is murdered every 34 minutes. There's a rape every 4 minutes. A home is burglarized every 15 seconds. Violent crime is showing signs of RISING. And those are just crimes of malicious intent--what about building safety, street safety, car safety? What about broad based attacks? And what about simple accidents? From tragedies as shocking as mass, unpredictable shootings, to the common threat of our everyday internet use facilitating identity theft at never-before-seen rates, let's face it: You are under threat of attack every single day. I wrote this book to help you mitigate what I see as ever-growing threats. Every victim, when they walked out their door on the morning that changed their life and brought them pain, never anticipated what would happen to them that day--and just maybe, they didn't know how to react or what to do at the moment their lives changed forever. The fact is that in this day and age, you need to walk around prepared. You need to get into your car prepared. You need to enter your workplace prepared. You can't afford NOT to be prepared. We need a guidebook, a user's manual for making it through another day in this modern world-- a world that can be terrifying. For some of you, putting the basics of this book into practice will mean that moment will never come for you. For others, you can follow every rule to the letter and malicious intent or a tragic accident will still befall you. The question is: will you be able to rise to the challenge and do everything you possibly can when danger strikes? After you read this guide, you will walk through life prepared, not scared. This book identifies where you're at risk--and then tells you how to best mitigate those risks with advice from the top experts in the field. I know of no other effort to bring together the insights and tips of so many experts. The book you hold in your hands today provides you with cutting-edge advice for a broad range of scenarios--as a reference you can use over and over again.     Excerpted from Prepared Not Scared: Your Go-To Guide for Staying Safe in an Unsafe World by Bill Stanton All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.