October Declared Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Earlier this month, the Tinker Family Advocacy Center at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma declared October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If you are wondering what domestic violence actually entails, law enforcement defines it as "threatening, causing, or attempting to cause serious physical harm between family or household members." It does not necessarily have to be just physical; it can be emotional, verbal or sexual. Selonda Moseley, a domestic abuse advocate said that the people who are at the highest risk for domestic violence are, "young females who are not married, females who abuse alcohol or other drugs, pregnant females, females who witnessed domestic abuse as a child or who were victims of child abuse, females who marry as teenagers, and females who are pregnant before marriage." Many females stay in an abusive relationship because of low self esteem or fear of safety for herself or for her children. However, females are not the only ones suffering from domestic violence.

According to National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,
· 20-30% of American women will be physically abused by a partner at least once in their lifetimes
· 1.3 million women and 834,732 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually
· 11% of women in homosexual relationships and 23% of men in homosexual relationships report being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by an intimate partner
· 503,485 women and 185,496 men are stalked by an intimate partner annually
· 1-25% of all pregnant women are battered during pregnancy
· 30-40% of women's emergency room visits are for injuries due to domestic violence
· 30% of women killed in the U.S. are killed by their husbands or boyfriends
· 50% of men who assaulted their female partners also assaulted their children
· 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year
These statistics are appalling. "Domestic violence is unacceptable and no one should have to endure it," said Lieutenant Gramling of the United States Air Force. Beatings, rapes, stalkings, murders, assaults – none of these crimes are tolerable and all of them are preventable. They are preventable through proper self defense training. Dr. Ignatius Piazza founded, and now directs, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, which gives students the opportunity to have exceptional gun training, martial arts training, knife training, child safety training, youth safety training, as well as several other forms of self defense training. Front Sight is located on 550 acres of land about a sixty minute drive outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. It is a community where people who want to learn any form of self defense get that chance. In order to be an instructor at Front Sight, applicants must first pass a grueling course that is so intense that most of the applicants do not pass the first time through. Not only do they have to pass the instructor training course, they also must undergo constant training so that their skills never waver, but only become stronger. This gives students the promise that they will be receiving training that is above and beyond what is considered a high standard. The training offered at Front Sight far exceeds military and law enforcement standards.

Neither men nor women should have to be involved with domestic violence. Front Sight is adamant about giving the best possible self defense training, in hopes that domestic violence can one day be a thing of the past.

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