How is he going to fight 5 armed thugs when NYS and NYC denies him the right to carry anything to protect his daughter with?
If they kept him there during the attack fighting to the death might make sense, but when they told him to leave, wasting the opportunity to try to get effective help for his daughter would be foolish.
Had they shot him the rape likely would not have occurred. It’s doubtful they would have hung around after firing a shot. He should have tried to make them shoot him. I’d much rather take a bullet and die than have one of daughters raped by five animals. The way I see it he valued his own life over his daughter’s, which I find despicable.
You fight with whatever you have. You punch, kick, gouge, bite...whatever you have to do. A real man — especially a real FATHER — does not leave his daughter (or his wife, etc.) at the mercy of rapists or bad guys.
But, I am going on 65, so I belong to a different generation. Maybe men of my generation tend to see things differently than much of America’s current crop.