Rely on God, protect yourself. That is not living in a police state, but it means that my sons and daughters will grow up able to take care of themselves.
My wife has triple A and a cell phone when she is driving without me. I change my own tires when they go flat. She will never be stranded somewhere without me.
A lack of preparation and poor choices lead to so many preventable tragedies. Predators seek out the weak and unprepared. I have never had the privilege of taking out an attempted rapist, but I guarantee you if I had been in the car with the abducted couple in Knoxville there would have been a gunfight and if I was driving I would have used my car to grind 3 or 4 sick individuals to pulp.
Would have saved the criminal justice system significant dollars.