Armed Attacker Killed with Own Knife in Beverly Hills Dog and Child Abduction Attempt

Details are sketchy and confusing in this bizarre case of an apparent child abduction by an apparently drug-addled attacker wielding a knife in an apparent attempt to grab a 2 year old girl on a walk with her parents in Beverly Hills.

The father bravely defended himself but suffered knife injuries in the process. No details, but knife injuries are generally horrible. Despite these injuries, the father was apparently able to injure the attacker with his own knife sufficiently to cause death of the attacker somewhat later.

During the interim, the attacker was distracted by a Good Samaritan, who punched the attacker, and the attacker apparently decided to kidnap the Good Samaritan’s dog instead. (To some people, pets are like kids — if you are such a person, you should know that we include pet trust planning at no extra charge.)

If you want to know more about this incident, check out stories here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I don’t want to know any more about this incident. What i know, or apparently know, is disturbing enough.

While the father is being lauded for bravery, and there appears to be some evidence of that, he apparently failed to be armed and trained with a handgun to protect his family when necessary. Nor is the mother excused from this duty. If laws don’t permit being armed, then you don’t take your family there. But you can generally get a CCW in California now, fairly easily.

Since the father was not properly armed with a firearm, he suffered knife injuries which are probably horrible. And he had to defend using the attacker’s own knife, killing the attacker. Gunshot wounds are more survivable than most people believe, and chances are the attacker would be alive if the father (or mother) had shot in defense. The failure of both parents to be armed also necessitated the involvement of the Good Samaritan and risked not only his life, but his dog’s, and imagine if he’d died without a pet trust.

The attacker is of course left with the fate of dying embarrassed, killed with his own knife after apparently attempting to kidnap a kid, and upon failing that a dog, while apparently high on drugs.

Are you armed and trained to protect your kids?

If you were to leave the range prematurely, would the guardians of your kids be armed and trained to protect your kids?

Are your kids armed and trained to protect their kids?

How about THIS situation: