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Safe in the City: A Streetwise Guide to Avoid Being Robbed, Raped,Ripped Off, or Run over
This is an entertaining street-level look at how crimes are really committed in America's cities. Chris and Animal use their NY-L.A. experience to help you learn the games carjackers, muggers, "gangstas," rapists, junkies and conmen play--and how to avoid them.
320 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1994
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Marc MacYoung
37 books49 followersMarc "Animal" MacYoung is a teacher of self-defense.
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May 31, 2020
Marc MacYoung is a truly strange figure, a self-styled expert in managing risk who advocates for gun ownership as a safety tool (when statistics show it decreases a person's safety by increasing the likelihood they'll be shot) but has been morbidly obese for over decade (the leading cause of death in the United States is heart disease). He is remarkably, fascinatingly delusional.
Here is how Marc MacYoung describes New York City, consistently one of the safest cities in the United States for many years now.
"The government has become in many ways more dangerous to the citizen and visitor than the idiot with a pistol. Government in this town, you see, is of the dollar, by the dollar, for the dollar. The average person is an annoyance to city government, and he or she is treated as such. Taxes are higher here than anywhere else in the United States, except in Washington, D.C. At the same time, citizens are not safe on the streets or in their homes, children are as likely to catch a bullet as an education in the schools, and God help you if you’re old and pensionless in New York because no one else will."
What?
How did his publisher approve this? Any publisher?
Here is how Marc MacYoung describes New York City, consistently one of the safest cities in the United States for many years now.
"The government has become in many ways more dangerous to the citizen and visitor than the idiot with a pistol. Government in this town, you see, is of the dollar, by the dollar, for the dollar. The average person is an annoyance to city government, and he or she is treated as such. Taxes are higher here than anywhere else in the United States, except in Washington, D.C. At the same time, citizens are not safe on the streets or in their homes, children are as likely to catch a bullet as an education in the schools, and God help you if you’re old and pensionless in New York because no one else will."
What?
How did his publisher approve this? Any publisher?
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