This stuff happens in every country just like rape, no matter how "safe" the country, that is true, but g24la, would you really have been in a position to defend yourself when this happened? What if they had been carrying weapons in their car because they'd heard Americans carried them in theirs? I don't think carrying a weapon in any car is the answer. Sometimes shit happens, it's not nice what they did to you, but it could just as easily happended somewhere else, and a weapon is not the answer.