If I were not packing, I'd have herded my wife and/or daughter away and just tried to get out of there. Did you see the mug shots of those dudes? Best not to mess with them. If I saw a dude or two like those guys approaching me, I'd be reaching into my pocket getting ready to do a fast-draw. If I didn't have a weapon, I'd consider myself outnumbered and out gunned and would decide discretion was the better part of valor.
I imagine the father thought he was just dealing with some teenagers, and talked to them like a parent, but it turned out they were a bunch of thuggish gangsters, and they wanted to show him they didn’t give a shiz if he was a parent, so they went jungle on his a—. I can see how it happened. It’s this culture that doesn’t lock up and throw away the key, that TOLERATES this kind of behavior, it just begets more of it.
Have you ever thought about standing up like man.