Why I Started This Blog!

Good morning world!

Before I begin to blog daily and/or hourly about anything and everything on my mind, I thought it would be cool to convey to all of you out there in cyberspace why I chose to blog in the first place.

As you all know by finding this blog, I created the Taser Party back in October 2007 (yes, the 2 year anniversary of the Taser Party is this month) to bring awareness to the horrific issue of sexual assault and domestic violence.  For all of you out there that do not know the stats, they are as follows (courtesy of RAINN and NDVH):

• 1 out of 6 women will be victims of sexual assault in her lifetime
• 1 out of 33 men will be victims of sexual assault in his lifetime 
• 1 in 4 college females will be victims of sexual assault during their college tenure
• 7% of girls in grades 5-8 and 12% of girls in grades 9-12 said they had been sexually assaulted
  
• 1 in 4 women will be victims of domestic violence at somepoint in their lives
• 1 in 9 men will be victims of domestic violence at some point in their lives
• In 2007, there were 248,300 victims of sexual assault in the US
• Every 2 minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted
  

I know...really makes you wonder why we do not have more awareness programs in schools and universities to combat this huge issue.  Furthermore, the statistics are constant year to year which means we all, collectively, are not doing enough!  In fact, breast cancer affects 1 in 8 women and is curable whereas sexual assault affects 1 in 6 women and is not curable; would love to see the same efforts as breast cancer committed to the issue of sexual abuse and domestic violence!

So basically, I blog to help reduce the number of victims of both sexual abuse and domestic violence by educating the American population about the issue to encourage getting educated about self defense awareness and tools to keep us safe!


Be smart...be safe!!!

Dana