Safe, Not Sorry: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe in a Violent Age [Hardcover]

Tanya Metaksa (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1997

Millions of American women live in fear that they are easy targets for criminal attack, and the statistics are indeed alarming: 73 percent of women over the age of 12 will be victimized at some point more than one third of them violently raped, robbed or assaulted. For more than three years, Tanya Metaksa has been teaching women how to take safety into their own hands in her revolutionary program, Refuse to Be a Victim. Now, in Safe, Not Sorry, she brings her message of empowerment to women who have come to realize that neither 911 nor the legal system will protect them in an increasingly violent age. This complete guide to self-protection shows how to develop proactive strategies for personal and family safety at home, on the street, in the car and at work. Metaksa discusses self-defense, physical training and personal protection devices, the pros and cons of firearms and the most current information on laws from state to state and what women can do to change legislation and be heard by their elected officials. Safe, Not Sorry is the ultimate self-protection handbook.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Harper; 1st edition (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006039191X
• ISBN-13: 978-0060391911
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,429,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for anyone living in the USA!, September 23, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Safe, Not Sorry: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe in a Violent Age (Hardcover)

This book is not just for women only. It is an essential "survival guide" for all law biding citizens that points out in a straight forward format our common weaknesses and naivete in our day to day lives at work, home, or play. The author does not just promote the use of handguns or the NRA. She presents the facts and offers various solutions. Ultimately everyone of us is responsible for our own personal safety. In this book we are made aware of just how much so, along with some little known surprises regarding the limits of reponsibility our police, society, and the law, have with regards to our personal safety. A true eye opener, with lessons to be learned by all. Without hesitation I can say that I want all the members of my family (male & female alike) to read this book.

6 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mostly NRA Propoganda - but some useful info., October 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Safe, Not Sorry: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe in a Violent Age (Paperback)

This book has some usefull info but I can't recomend it. It reads like a grandmother rambeling instruction about how to live your life. In my opinion it is totally unrealistic about unarmed self defence, asault and recovery psychology, and armed self defense.

The author is an NRA Executive and is compleatly entrenched in the NRA's politics. Don't get me wrong - I'm pro gun rights, but this book does the public a dis-service by ignoring most of psychology of self defense.

The book is full of unfounded gross generalizations. Statements like, "Most of the time", "Useually", "2/3 of the time" etc. all with NO factual research referenced except in the section on firearms.

The author dedicated this book to her 3 daughters. IF she is really concerned for their safety, she should right a WELL RESEARCHED and unbiased sequel. If you believed this book all you have do do is buy a gun and you're safe for life, no will ever get accidently hurt, and nothing else will help protect you.

If you buy this book, read the firearms statistics and annecdotes - ignore the rest, and add the information to your own considered opinion.

Joe