May I ask you a question?

[ysobelle]

What does it mean to you to be safe?

What's your definition of safe?

Comments

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Safe means feeling that every reasonable measure has been taken to ensure that I will not be physically harmed by another human being.

I've taken Martial Arts and obtained the rank of Black Belt.

I've learned to use many types of swords, including training by a master fencer, and Katana use.

I can use a bow and arrow.

I can use,(with either hand) field strip, clean, and reassemble every firearm in this house, and many other pistol variants with deadly accuracy.

My husband is ex Military, and has taken great care to teach me how to understand tactics and safety.

For the first time in 23 years, I feel safe. Cared for. Loved and protected. I was made a victim before, by my father and other men I was supposed to trust. Now, I know I can keep myself safe, and don't have to depend on anyone else. I can depend on my husband, but I don't have to.

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Um. Sheeee-it, woman!


Wow.

[emalia.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with her. I live in my own LaLa Land.. But I am safe. I live in a decent neighborhood. I have a plan. I can fire all the weapons in my home competently and with enough accuracy to be deadly. I can physically defend myself if there are no guns. The best thing David ever did for me, was make me go to self defense classes and beat up his brother. It installed a confidence in me that nothing could ever replace.

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Brava!!

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Gotta admit. I love going to the range. It's GREAT stress relief. :)

[emalia.livejournal.com]

I do as well.. It is a favorite family activity

[morriganswitch.livejournal.com]

Well, if you live within 30 mins of Newark, DE I'd be happy to go with ya sometime!

[fondor.livejournal.com]

Being financially secure. Earning enough cash to live in a place where there aren't nightly sirens, enough to cover health care and nutritional food for the family, and having some left over for enriching activities.

[mirroreyes.livejournal.com]

Safe: not having a daily/hourly fear of whether or not I have to defend myself both physically and mentally.
Being able to protect myself - either by using the selfdefense I've learned, or with a knife (you've seen my "pocket knife") or with, if I must, a firearm. And you know that I can put all my shots within a pie-plate in under 20 seconds so thats reasonable that if I have to defend myself in such a way, its a bad sign.
Being able to have fun and let loose around people and not have to fear that I will be harmed or taken advantage of. (Notice sometime when I drink and when I drink a lot and what the different situations are and who is present...)
Having access to Backup whenever necessary. My phone is always charged, and usually on me. My back up can be 911, or friends or worse ;) family. ... but Backup I will have access to if I deem a situation necessary.
The ability to leave any place when I feel it no longer meets my standards or gives me the spidy sense "warning warning Danger Will Robinson" lights and sirens.

is that a reasonable definition of "safe" ;)
See you later tonight! MISS YOU MUCHLY!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Safe is not having to worry. If I am worried, I am exposed, something is not safe.
make sense?

[surlywench.livejournal.com]

Safe is not having to worry. If I am worried, I am exposed, something is not safe.
make sense?

[sheraqaw.livejournal.com]

My daughter, Amy says, Safe is the way you need to feel before you can fall asleep.

Now for me, safe is knowing that you are not in threat of danger from an outside source. This could be physical danger which could be an actual or assumed threat to your body, mind, character or reputation. This threat could be an attack on you physically and endanger your life. Accidental, as when in a moving vehicle in a collision. Psychological, as when someone is trying to fuck with your head.
Safe also means that you are not being a victim of abuse.
Forms of abuse - physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, spiritual, financial, neglect.
Safe also means that I will not be harmed at my place of employment, and many of the people I take care of are psychologically unstable. I had a crazed resident swing a 2 foot long steel pipe at my head this past summer in an extreme fit of rage. I do not worry about him any longer. He has since passed away.
Safe means that I am capable of defending myself if placed in a situation where harm could come to me.
I too, am an expert marksman. sorry, markswoman. I am highly skilled with pistol, small bore rifle, large bore rifle, shotgun, muzzle-loader,and bow. I teach all of the above as a Hunter/Trapper Education Safety Instructor for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. My specialty though is First Aid and Survival Skills. I teach people how to be safe, or survive until they can get to safety. As my hero, the naturalist, Euell Gibbons used to say, (back in the 1970's)"Yes, even parts of a Volkswagen are edible".

Safe means that I would not have to worry about my life being in danger by terrorism. I know and realize that being an American Citizen makes me a target. I guess I'm really not safe after all, am I?

[emalia.livejournal.com]

unfort.. I am a South Florida girl..
We shoot at Gator guns and archery..

[hemitheos.livejournal.com]

For me, being safe means that I have people in my life to help lift me back up when I have fallen. As long as I know that I am not alone in this world, I feel safe.

[hennabee.livejournal.com]

I am safe because I know that anything could happen to me at any point. I also know that one of two things will happen...I will live through it or I will not. If I do not...then I have no need to worry. If I do, then I know that I can pull myself back up from whatever happened.
Safe is knowing anything can happen, not being worried that it will, and knowing that in the end really it doesn't matter because human beings have the fortitude to move forward and persevere in the fact of the most horrid shit imaginable.
I feel safe knowing that. :)