From a child-safety perspective, guns are as much a reality as swimming pools, electrical outlets, matches or poisonous household cleaners. In the same way that parents teach their children about those other risks, so they should educate their children about the risks guns pose and how to avoid them. This applies to parents who love guns, to parents who hate guns and everyone in between.

Please join me at Sandy Springs Shooting Range for either of two free presentations of “How to Talk to Your Kids About Guns (Even if You Don’t Own Guns)”. This 30-minute multimedia program provides parents – all parents, regardless of whether they themselves own guns – with constructive actions and useful resources that can help reduce the risk that their child will be injured or killed in a firearms accident.

When: Sunday, November 6th 2011 2:00pm-2:45pm or Saturday, December 3rd 2011 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Where: Sandy Springs Shooting Range, 8040 Roswell Road, Sandy Springs, GA 30350
RSVP and More Info: Please call Sandy Springs Shooting Range, (770) 394-4867

Please note: This presentation is offered free of charge as a community service on behalf of any organization that can provide a venue and an audience. If you are unable to attend the above sessions and would like to organize a presentation for your school, PTA, community association or house of worship, please use the Contact tab at the top of the page to request additional information.

Please join No Victims’ author for a presentation of the Refuse To Be A Victim(R) crime-prevention seminar at the recently-opened Sandy Springs Gun Club on Saturday, October 9th:

Refuse To Be A Victim Seminar

A crime prevention and personal safety course full of strategies you can use to develop your own safety plan.

Where: Sandy Springs Gun Club, 8040 Roswell Rd, Sandy Springs, GA 30350
When: October 8, 2011 Saturday
Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Cost: $10.00 (Open to men, women, older children/teenagers)

A maximum of 25 seats are available and they are filling up fast!  For more information or to register, please call the Sandy Springs Gun Club at 770-394-4867.

If you have a student at Atlanta Charter Middle School, please join No Victims’ author for a presentation of “What Every Parent Should Know About Gun Safety (Even If They Don’t Own Guns)”.  This 30-minute multimedia program provides parents with constructive actions and useful resources that can help reduce the risk that their child will be injured or killed in a firearms accident. 

This will be one of four presentations addressing various teen safety risks given as part of this special program of the ACMS PTCA.

Please join No Victims’ author for a presentation of the Refuse To Be A Victim(R) crime-prevention seminar at the recently-opened Sandy Springs Gun Club on Saturday, February 12th:

Refuse To Be A Victim Seminar

A crime prevention and personal safety course full of strategies you can use to develop your own safety plan.

Where: Sandy Springs Gun Club, 8040 Roswell Rd, Sandy Springs, GA 30350
When: Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Cost: $10.00 (Open to men, women, older children/teenagers)

A maximum of 30 seats are available and they are filling up fast! For more information or to register, please call the Sandy Springs Gun Club at 770-394-4867.

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 12,300 times in 2010. That’s about 30 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 28 posts.

The busiest day of the year was December 9th with 86 views. The most popular post that day was Crime Prevention.

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The top referring sites in 2010 were novictims-atlanta.info, ar15.com, search.aol.com, georgiapacking.org, and statistics.bestproceed.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for pepper spray, carjacking, car jacking, taser c2, and air raid siren.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Crime Prevention April 2009

Tips To Avoid Becoming A Carjacking Victim July 2009
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Less-Than-Lethal Alternatives to Firearms for Ranged Personal Protection June 2009
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Supercharge Your Home Security System August 2009
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Why and How To Talk With Your Children About Guns (Even If You Don’t Own Guns) August 2009
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Stay tuned to No Victims for more new articles, more new public safety information, more Refuse To Be A Victim(R) Seminars more Home Firearms Safety Seminars and more “What Every Parent Should Know About Guns (Even If They Don’t Own Guns)” presentations in 2011!

Home Firearms Safety is a non-shooting course and teaches participants the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude necessary for the safe handling and storage of firearms and ammunition in the home. This is a three- to four-hour course for safe gun handling that is conducted in the classroom only. Students are taught three rules for safe gun handling; primary causes of firearms accidents; firearm parts; how to unload certain action types; ammunition components; cleaning; care; and safe storage of firearms in the home. This course is a good one for anyone new to firearms, for non-shooters who live in a home with a  firearm used primarily by someone else or for anyone of any experience level who wants to increase their proficiency in the safe handling of firearms.

A highilght of this course (and part of the fun) is the opportunity for participants to engage in hands-on loading and unloading exercises with a large variety (at least a dozen) of different firearms of different designs and action types.  No Victims’ volunteer instructor even offers a “bonus round” opportunity to figure out how to unload and render safe a few unusual and historically interesting firearms that might be found in some random relative’s basement or attic.

As with everything No Victims’ volunteer instructor teaches for the community, this course would be  offered for only the cost of participant materials (about $8) plus a share of any costs associated with obtaining a venue (see below).  Timing likely would be mid to late January and enrollment limited to 12 participants unless another certified instructor also is willing to teach for free.

Venue is TBD. This course cannot be taught in a chrurch or school facility as actual firearms (instructor-provided ones only!) will be used in the course. As such, the venue will need to be a non-school or non-church commercial property or a private home with sufficient space for seating, presentation and several firearms workstations. NO LIVE AMMUNITION WILL BE PRESENT OR PERMITTED IN THE VENUE FOR THIS COURSE.

In accordance with Georgia and Federal law, participants in this course must be elligible to own a firearm (no convicted felons, no person who has been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, no person convicted of or under indictment for family violence crimes, etc.).

Please click here to contact No Victim’s author and volunteer instructor email me to indicate your potential interest and preferred timing (Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon) for such a course.  If you can offer or suggest a potential venue, or are a POST-certified, active or retired military-certified firearms instructor or NRA-certified firearms instructor willing to assist teaching this course, please indicate this in your message as well.

Please visit http://www.novictims-atlanta.info at any time for additional information about safe and responsible firearms ownership, strategies to improve personal safety and ideas on how to make all of our neighborhoods safer and stronger.

No Victim’s founder previews highlights of an upcoming Refuse To Be A Victim(R) seminar for Steve Kiggings on CBS Atlanta. Click the image above for video.

Please join Safe Atlanta For Everyone (SAFE) and No Victims’ author for a presentation of the Refuse To Be A Victim(R) crime-prevention seminar at Martha Brown United Methodist Church on Saturday, December 11th: 

When:       Saturday, December 11, 2010, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Where:      Martha Brown United Methodist Church (468 Moreland Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30316)

Cost:          $5 per person (the cost of the materials)

How:         Register via email at info@safe-atlanta.org

A maximum of 35 seats are available and they are filling up fast!  Seating can be guaranteed only for those who register in advance. For more information about the seminar, please visit www.safe-atlanta.org.

“CREATE A FAMILY “EMERGENCY ALERT” Set up a Google Voice number that is set to ring every adult family members home, office and mobile phone simultaneously, and that is known to every member of the family (including elderly or infirm family members and children old enough to understand when to use it). In the event of a bonafide emergency (medical emergency, car accident, criminal encounter, etc.) and *after* calling 911 if appropriate, a family member can dial the Emergency Alert number and communicate the details of the emergency to the first adult family member to pick up. This maximizes the possibility that an adult family member will get the call and answer it because it is coming from the family Emergency Alert number and gets another adult family member involved in dealing with the emergency as quickly as possible.”

Read the full article here.

Please join No Victims’ author for a presentation of the Refuse To Be A Victim(R) crime-prevention seminar at the recently-opened Sandy Springs Gun Club on Saturday, October 9th:

Refuse To Be A Victim Seminar

A crime prevention and personal safety course full of strategies you can use to develop your own safety plan.

Where: Sandy Springs Gun Club, 8040 Roswell Rd, Sandy Springs, GA 30350
When: October 9, 2010 Saturday
Time: 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Cost: $10.00 (Open to men, women, older children/teenagers)

A maximum of 30 seats are available and they are filling up fast!  For more information or to register, please call the Sandy Springs Gun Club at 770-394-4867.