Sunset is the new broad daylight now?
 I would guess 95% of people don’t carry a weapon.
If she had a good, easily accessible fixed blade she could have messed that guy up instead of vice versa.
My daughter works for a phone company and she does not carry a purse.  She uses a fanny pack
worn under a hoodie going to and from work. Her hands are in the hoodie pockets, one holding a fixed blade knife
and the other on a Mace pepper gun.  She warned her coworkers not to be funny and try to surprise
her when she is walking to her car because they are not going to like the result.  I told her to keep her head on a swivel.