This woman appears to have been 100% in the right here and she did everything she should have and was legally in the right. Anyone who suggests that her specific personal reaction was anything other than appropriate in this circumstance is wrong.
But there is a reasonable conversation to be had about the reason she herself had to assume he might have a gun and the very real phenomenon exceptions being presented as the rule. She was brave and calm and in my opinion right to do what she did, but it's also important and ok to talk about how we get this country to a safer and saner situation with guns so that her kids will have less reason to think they need guns.
Part of that is going to be common sense gun safety so that the statistics reduce risk in the first place.
On the flipside, holding this woman personally responsible for the general problems with guns is victim blaming.
Honestly there's a lot you could spin off from this whole topic, into a whole wide range of debates. Such as the issues of mental health, drug abuse, proper gun ownership etc.
You and I don't disagree. We both feel she was justified and acted appropriately given the situation. She herself was worried about owning a Gun, and I don't blame her. Every time I am around a Firearm I have an insanely healthy dose of respect for what that weapon can do.
What I take issue with, is people's hatred of firearms being so blinding, that they don't stop to think what could have been. What might have been and what could have happened to that woman and her children.
That's what bothers me. The lack of empathy for the sheer ordeal she found herself in.
Discussions are fine to have, yes. But others acting as though this woman clearly had alternatives, when her door was kicked down after the guy was warned, and the recent events in my state where an intruder murdered a girls family after breaking in...
Yeah, I just have no idea how people internalize such callous disregard and instead focus on their own agenda.
*Sighs*
Anyways, I've said my peace. Take care all, I'm bowing out as I have a long drive ahead of me.