Never mind people sending them to war based on lies.
"Children are own best defense against kidnapping, study says" by Donna St. George, Washington Post | September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — The children most at risk of attempted abduction by strangers are girls ages 10 to 14, many on their way to or from school, and they escape harm mostly through their own fast thinking or fierce resistance, according to a national analysis....
Federal research shows that successful abductions by strangers are relatively rare; an estimated 115 a year nationally....
The largest category is family abductions, with an estimated 204,000 incidents a year.
Then WHY the DECEPTIVE HEADLINE and LEAD-IN, MSM?
WTF?!!!!!!!!
Attempted abductions are hard to track, officials said, because police reports often are not written up. The center searched widely for every possible incident, using media coverage, hot line reports, and contacts with police agencies....
It is a chilling thought for working parents and all those who have asked children to hold hands tightly in crowds or to phone as soon as they get home from school. It calls to mind the killing last year of Somer Thompson, 7, snatched en route from school in Florida as she ran ahead of her siblings, and the highly publicized case of Elizabeth Smart, taken from her Utah bedroom at age 14.
You know, now I am kind of resentful towards the MSM considering the disparity between strangers and those the kids know.
I am really sick of them picking a few corn kernels out of a turd and calling them gold. Know what I mean?
The new analysis examines more than 4,200 cases of abductions that were attempted but not successful, and it shows that children were their own best protectors.
“They escaped these things not through the efforts of good Samaritans, but through recognizing a bad situation and either getting away from it, avoiding it, or screaming and kicking to draw attention,’’ said Ernie Allen, president of the missing children’s center.
This is news?
In the vast majority of the cases examined, children escaped harm through their own actions. In 16 percent of the cases, an adult stepped in to help.
“The goal here is not to frighten, but to encourage parents to sit down with their kids, talk to them about their safety, and practice these things,’’ Allen said. “Our overall premise is, kids protect themselves with their heads, and if they are prepared and alert, and if they know what to do and how to respond, they are at far less risk.’’
Yeah, I'm sorry, but it smells like agenda-pushing bulls*** to me.
What it does it set the stage for more tyranny.
After all, you can't be against keeping children safe.
Allen said parents should be aware that children targeted in abduction attempts are often preteens and teens in middle grades. More than 70 percent were girls.
And most of them were snatched by those they knew.
Federal studies have found that teenagers are most at risk in nonfamily abductions. Older children may be targeted more because they are less likely to be supervised, Allen said, and girls may be more often targeted by sexual predators....
But they aren't trying to scare you or anything.
