Self-defence tools to ensure your late-night safety?
Self-defence tools to ensure your late-night safety
Fear is a primal instinct. A person’s brain works in such a way that if they sense any kind of imminent peril or threat, their body mechanisms start working differently from person to person. While many people’s brains might go on a defensive mode, there are also a few instances where the victim’s body freezes. Those are the times when they fall prey to their attackers. Being fearless to stand at the face of fear and counterattack is, however, possible for a few people.
Fearlessness is an inherited trait, they say. However, this trait doesn’t need to be passed down to a person only through genetics. If a person decides to be offensive in times of need, to save themselves from harm, pain, and despair, they must know self-defence moves and own self-defence tools. The number of cases where many young men and women fall victim to unfortunate situations is much more than one could count. Those are the only registered cases that we read or hear about.
There could be as many as, if not more, similar ones that go unregistered or unheard. A case like Nirbhaya, Rohtak gangrape needs no separate introduction. These and many other similar cases shook the nation to the core. People did protests, media outlets talked about it, but as time passed, it simmered down. Even though both men and women are the victims of harassment and sexual assaults, the female victims are at a higher rate than men. One of many such cases where women were assaulted was Bangalore’s New Year Eve’s case in 2017.
It happened when people were out in one of the most popular areas of Bangalore — MG Road, celebrating New Year’s Eve, waiting to welcome the New Year with their friends and loved ones. Getting assaulted is scary as it is, but when the assaulters come in a group of youth, it’s scarier. When the people should have been celebrating, welcoming the New Year with zeal and zest, these young women were shivering in fear, becoming a target for lewd comments.
