People need to wise up. If you're going to walk at night, take a dog, take a loud whistle, take some pepper spray, take a gun. Always plan to be accosted, always be alert.....
Please.
A dog, maybe, or the dog might have been shot on the spot.
loud whistle? impossible. No one has responded to those since 1880s in London England.
Pepper spray against 5 men with a gun? No chance.
A gun? the only sensible chance. But 50/50 is a very poor chance.
Be alert? worthless. Even Navy Seals are trained that you can only control the 3 feet around you.
Looking back on this situation, we can see that the girl and the dad are ALIVE. The girl was treated and released from the hospital. So, looking back, the price they paid for their ignorance was not as bad as it could have been. They live to tell others to not do what they did.
Its not their ignorance at fault here. Its the fact that you aren't catching and executing robbers.
In Jesus' day they crucified them, and that was quite a deterrent.
Before anyone jumps all over me for my hard heart, I'll admit that I can't imagine leaving my daughter to fight them off by herself, and I would have done so rather than leave.... then again, I would have had something to fight with.
Would have should have.
He did what he had to do to save her life in an unforeseen emergency.
Not every situation is 'winable'.