A few weeks ago near Jacksonville, Florida, a woman named Alis Muntain was shopping in a Walmart. Her hands and arms were loaded with bags of cat food and litter when a 14-year-old boy approached her and asked how old she was.
“And then he said, ‘I want you to know that I have a knife in my pocket, and I want you to have sex with me,’” Muntain told CBS-47 in Jacksonville. “And then he kind of pulled it out of his pocket and showed me that there was a pocket knife inside of there.”
Muntain couldn’t believe what the boy had just said. “I stared at him for a second and was like, ‘Is this really happening,’ and then I was just like, ‘Are you serious?’”
She noticed a man walking at the end of the aisle and called for help, telling him what was happening: “This guy has a knife in his hand and he’s threatening to use it on me if I don’t have sex with him.”
According to News4Jax, the man who heard Muntain’s cry drew his gun, which he was licensed to carry, and stopped the teenager. According to the man — who, wisely, I believe, wishes to remain anonymous — Muntain said the teen threatened to stab her if she didn’t comply. After pulling his concealed handgun, the man asked the teen, “Are you serious? Did you say that?” The scariest part was that the attacker responded with a nod of cocky affirmation.
The man told Muntain to go get help, whereupon she ran; the teen also fled. The concealed carry holder did not fire his gun and did not touch or threaten the teen. Minutes later, deputies arrested the young person in a nearby parking lot.