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Tragic news followup to a story I linked to here this past Saturday:

“Missing Realtor Discovered in Shallow Grave”

The Arkansas man who faces capital murder charges in the death of a real estate broker whose body was found early Tuesday in a shallow grave told reporters she was chosen because “she was a woman that worked alone—a rich broker.”

I’m going out on a limb here to say that realtors, who are often perceived as “wealthy,” and who often are women working alone – and as this one was – in a relatively rural location, should carry a weapon. If you don’t, you are obviously putting your safety at risk.

I don’t write this lightly or just in response to this most current and tragic loss of yet another innocent person’s life. But looking at instability in the world as a mass, and this country – with its seeming unwillingness to put the safety of US citizens as high priority, it’s time to take protecting yourself and your family in your own hands.

Realtors are at high risk in my opinion. Often women, often meeting strangers alone, and as this one, in a rural location. No matter what happened, she obviously had NO MEANS to protect herself. I’m not talking about buying a can of pepper spray either. I’m talking buying a gun, taking a class, and getting a permit to carry.

The biggest problem people seem have against making this kind of decision is that they cannot think as criminals do. “I’m a nice, law-abiding person so everyone else must be too.” In a word, NO! They aren’t. In fact, since the DOJ keeps massaging the prison rules, more and more repeat offenders (as was this suspected murderer) are being let out EARLY – meaning they don’t even serve the full time for a prior crime.

This realtor was near my age of 57 which means she grew up in a United States that was a whole lot different than the US of 2014. Criminals see what they want and are willing to take it from you. If they kill you to get it – so what? Throw in those who are in some drug-induced state-of-mind and killing you barely slows them down. Twenty+ million illegal aliens have broken US laws to get here and are usually holding two or three forms of different identification – all with different names. Think they are worried about getting caught if they rob and kill you? No. They’ll high-tail it back across the border and the crime against you will likely never even be solved.

I’m not suggesting mass-panic but I am suggesting each individual think about their living, work, and travel environments. A realtor is abducted and murdered showing a property. A women working what she thought was a normal work day was murdered and beheaded AT WORK. A second person was stabbed and probably only saved from beheading because one of her employers owned a permitted weapon.

Most people who buy a gun for protection hope they never have to use it outside a range. And they don’t buy it with the purposeful intent of doing anything else – no matter what the anti-gun crowd would have you believe. But I can almost guarantee you that if that realtor had had a weapon strapped to her hip and a carry permit, she’d be alive today. And if the executive at Vaughan Foods had not had a permitted weapon, the second stabbing victim in Oklahoma – and maybe several more employees, would have been killed.

Food for thought…