“National Stalking Awareness Month”?
I understand the point and the danger, but...it seems odd to me. A “month” for everything, I guess.
There are only twelve months in the year, and at least one pet “cause” for every person in the country.
Everyday is something as well.
I truly have come to despise our current society.
Stalkers are problematic. I have one that’s diagnosed bipolar. It’s what I get for being nice to someone years ago. No matter how many times I have explained I cannot be that person they want me to be they keep popping up. It’s been years and over a dozen phone numbers blocked later. Last year I got texted a photo of my home. This year I got texts acknowledging I said not to ever contact me again and yet they did it anyway. It’s stressful but the law doesn’t really offer remedies.
Given that a lot of modern women do NOT want to be educated about 2A, scary guns, and self defense, it might take an entire month to get finally get their attention.
(Original sweetheart of the Rodeo Annie Oakley who lived before the advent of the left complaining about people being able to defend themselves!)
Good article. Basic awareness and self defense options.
Way too many FB, Instagram, TikTok, etc. users are simple attention whores who realize too late (if they ever realize it at all) that they have little to no control over filtering wanted attention from unwanted attention.
People continually get on social media to show how great they and their lives are, whether it's vacation in Cancun, what they're having for lunch or how perfect their new BF/GF is. Consciously or sub-consciously they are cultivating envy, and are too shallow to realize that some people deal with envy simply by setting out to take what they want.
When all is said and done with the Idaho four murders, I have no doubt that we'll find out the killer (whether or not it's Kohberger) used social media as part of his victim selection and stalking.
Prior to social media, stalkers would actually have to do the legwork and come across their target/victim somewhere/somehow in person. Now, people with that mentality can troll the internet looking for potential targets and the potential targets are doing everything they can to call attention to themselves in order to collect clicks, hits, views, likes and subscribers. I'm not sure why people who invest so much time and effort trying to cultivate online, "followers," are surprised when somebody actually starts following them in person.