{"id":87792,"date":"2026-06-27T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=87792"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:47:18","slug":"stop-being-a-soft-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Being a Soft Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/reagan-assassination-uzi-featured.jpg\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title mb-4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/\">Stop Being a Soft Target<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criminals don\u2019t choose random people to criminalize in most cases. Sure, the occasional psycho who is out of their mind is going to do whatever they want. A criminal with a working prefrontal cortex is going to use victim targeting. Today, we are going to try to help you avoid being a soft target.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to Avoid Being a Soft Target:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/#h-the-science-behind-a-soft-target\" data-level=\"3\">The Science Behind a Soft Target<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/#h-walking-tall\" data-level=\"3\">Walking Tall<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/#h-head-up-and-paying-attention\" data-level=\"3\">Head Up and Paying Attention<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/#h-soft-target-no-more\" data-level=\"3\">Soft Target No More<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best way to win a defensive engagement is to never be involved in one. There are some immutable characteristics we all have that we can\u2019t change that might make us more likely to be a victim. I\u2019m six feet, five inches tall and 300 pounds; I didn\u2019t think I pinged high on the victim meter. It turns out that the way criminals choose victims is a little more complicated than that.<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-science-behind-a-soft-target\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Science Behind a Soft Target<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Criminals might be scum bags, but they are still humans. Risk-averse opportunists who want their transaction with you to go as smoothly as possible. Victim targeting is the process of finding the right person to assault. In 1981, a study done by Grayson and Stein shed new light on the criminal mind.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/articles\/stop-being-a-soft-target\/\">RTWT @ Gat Daily<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gatdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/FEWGWVQD6RH77GFKD6T4GCPTOM-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop Being a Soft Target Criminals don\u2019t choose random people to criminalize in most cases. Sure, the occasional psycho who is out of their mind is going to do whatever they want. A criminal with a working prefrontal cortex is going to use victim targeting. Today, we are going to try to help you avoid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6620,3786,5445,13890,9591,7979,4418,118,498,1841,17,1897,3321],"tags":[4953,9380,658,19346,8106,7402,219],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87794,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87792\/revisions\/87794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}