Pregnant woman defends unborn child, doesn't wait for help to arrive

The story has quickly spread across the nation:

A suburban Cincinnati woman is obsessed with becoming pregnant. She fakes her own pregnancy, obtains private information from an online Babies R Us gift registry, and creates an elaborate plot to lure a pregant neighbor into her home.

All the while, she is plotting to murder the mother and steal the baby from her womb.

But the mother didn't wait to dial 911. When her attacker drew a 5" knife, raised it into an overhand thrust position and began attacking, she fought back, hitting her attacker with an ashtray before taking away the knife and stabbing her attacker to death.

This story should be a lesson to all, and the lessons can be summarized from these words, which can be found at http://www.a-human-right.com:

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When a threat to your safety comes from a hostile human, it is unrealistic to expect that an assault would be postponed long enough to let you call for help. "Excuse me, Mr.Attacker, I need to call my local police officer and ask for his presence." Right.

Sometimes avoiding a criminal attack is not possible. Fortunately, elementary precautions enable us not to become helpless victims of such attacks. Consider being armed a form of immunization.

In the event that you do manage to ask for help, your savior may be too long in coming. When the source of danger is right next to you and the police cruiser starts from ten miles away, it isn't likely that the cops would do more than take in evidence. Counting on your neighbors is far from certain, either. Kitty Genovese and many others have learned the hard way that bystanders dislike getting involved in confrontations between strangers.

This mother was lucky. Most defenseless people, when confronted by an armed attacker intent on taking their life, do not live to tell the tale. Being prey is a choice. Is it your choice?