{"id":9073,"date":"2026-01-12T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T18:39:01","slug":"unarmed-parents-stop-serial-killer-save-young-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/unarmed-parents-stop-serial-killer-save-young-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"UNARMED PARENTS STOP SERIAL KILLER, SAVE YOUNG DAUGHTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/family-under-attack-stops-serial-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s a horror story for you<\/a>, with as happy an ending as the horrendous circumstances allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In retrospect, I can say it probably would have ended better if the parents had been able to access a gun.&nbsp; In Massachusetts where it happened, even owning handguns let alone carrying them legally is a hassle, but it can be done.&nbsp; For most of my life I lived in bordering New Hampshire, and back in the day jumped through the hoops to get a non-resident Massachusetts carry permit. That became unnecessary for me when the Bay State\u2019s Bartley-Fox law was amended to allow cops, including out of state cops, to carry off duty there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hat is off to these courageous parents. The dad at one point in the struggle with the big, knife-wielding killer yelled to his family to bring him his gun, trying to bluff the monster into surrendering.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t really have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sure hope he got one since.\u00a0 If that mom, dad or now-adult daughter ever read this, I want them to know they have a free tuition at one of my classes (<a href=\"http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\">http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you can get the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/49lD3S0\" target=\"_blank\">book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a horror story for you, with as happy an ending as the horrendous circumstances allowed. In retrospect, I can say it probably would have ended better if the parents had been able to access a gun.&nbsp; In Massachusetts where it happened, even owning handguns let alone carrying them legally is a hassle, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}