On the other hand, Farago is dead bang accurate about this one.

Robert Farago rightly takes Dr. Petit to task for failing at the most important job a husband and father is charged with -- protecting his wife and daughters. And I don't just mean by the application of defensive force with a firearm. It is apparent that Dr. Petit lived in that chimerical land where evil things do not happen to good people and thus failed at preparing his wife and daughters for recognizing and resisting predators on their own hook. The first weapon of defense is the prepared mind of the intended victim.

My daughters have been taught to have situational awareness and to be able to use anything as a weapon of resistance. They have been taught how to take an ordinary pen and where to stick it at just the right angle in the eye of an attacker and then how to drive it home with the heel of their hand into his brain stem, leaving a would be rapist flopping out the last moments of life on a sidewalk like a fish out of water.

Dr. Petit, the poor bastard, did not do this, and now is condemned to spend the rest of his life in guilt and regret.

His is a cautionary tale, written in the blood of unprepared innocents.