First, I hope the wounded guard soon recovers completely.  [If he's the young guard my neighbor knows, his aim is to become a State Trooper.] 

Last month I told a FredMeyer mgr I was glad FM had hired a security guard (unlike the reckless owners of the DANGEROUS Carrs at N.Lts&Minn.), b/c I often grocery-shop late at night + for more than a decade I've seen more&more pushy panhandlers & worse in the lots of EVERY market, from solo drunks to packs of young men in cars accosting customers.

And, as many women have noted, the thieves in parking lots + the predators in our parks & on our trails usually target women.  I sometimes have visitors from places where urban parks & trails ARE safe (b/c they're well patrolled 24/7 by police on quiet electric bikes, well lit at night & free of squatters). But I now warn female guests [& elders] that OUR trails are unsafe for solo walks, not b/c of bears but b/c of nihilistic humans.

And yet the LEGISLATURE just REDUCED penalties for many crimes.