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By Ahlbie B Tlock, July 15, 2010

A fatal threat to someone whose safety I valued more than mine made me outgrow my privileged upbringing. Before that, I cared little for how to create safety, security in the home and neighborhood.

I lived in the exact same heavily guarded house in a gated community until the end of my bachelorhood. When Kate and I were married, we purchased a home closer to our jobs and immediately had a surveillance camera system installed.

By then, I had begun to take a little more interest in learning how to create safety, security in the home and neighborhood. I had our property outfitted with a wireless security alarm, entry and driveway alarms.

We were taking a stroll one cool evening when we came upon a man walking around, looking lost. We approached him, only to have a gun waved before our faces as he demanded money and jewelry.

Due to my initial efforts in researching on how to create safety, security in the home and neighborhood, we possessed a stun gun and personal safety alarm at the time. Still, I signaled at my spouse to cooperate although it would have been a 2:1 match.

Negotiating for release, I relinquished what money and jewelry we had. To my surprise, the attacker commanded that he be escorted beyond the quarter’s guards using my vehicle, seizing Kate to make his point.

Remembering what I had picked up on how to create safety, security in the home and neighborhood by then, I was convinced he was going to plunder our house and perhaps end our lives.

I extracted my stun gun with new-found strength unearthed by the possibility of my bride’s demise. We knocked the assaulter down, Kate pulling a pepper spray out unexpectedly. My outlook on safety has never been the same since.

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