The Most High Risk Profession

Of all professions, one wouldn't imagine being a real estate salesperson to be among the most dangerous. Unless you saw this morning's segment on Good Morning America, entitled "Real Estate Agents Engage in Self-Defense Classes."

The segment quotes Shark Tank "star" Barbara Corcoran, who asserts that "being in the real estate business is one of the most high risk businesses in the nation." Why? Because, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than twenty agents were murdered over the last ten years.

To give the story emotional heft, Good Morning America told the story of realtor Beverly Carter, a 51-year old woman brutally murdered by a psychopath named Arron Lewis. Carter was targeted because she was a "woman who worked alone. A rich broker."

Hence, the need for realtors to learn self-defense.

Having situational awareness and being prepared is all well and good, but how does a fifty-one-year-old woman stand a chance against a highly motivated thirty-three year old male? By poking him in the eye?

I recommend that realtors obtain a concealed carry permit, and strap a firearm under their jacket. The crime committed by Lewis was a crime of opportunity. As long as a realtor insists on working alone and inviting strangers to an empty house, that realtor is vulnerable.

Especially a woman. The news segment noted that "women make up 60% of the real estate agent population." The only true equalizer for a woman alone is a legally possessed firearm. That fact wasn't even mentioned by GMA. There are other common-sense measures, like meeting clients at the office.

But Good Morning America wasn't interested in common sense, or reason. The agenda is to ensure perfect safety for women, even if it must appeal to raw emotion. Now that the modern workplace is dominated by women, the modern workplace must be completely free from risk.

Except for men.

I don't mind legacy media talk about workplace safety. Just stop ignoring the fact that every year, without fail, men make up ninety-two percent of workplace fatalities.