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Why can’t “sanity” and “common sense” prevail here. Women should not be out on the streets and alleys of America engaging in shootouts and knife fights and fist fights with violent men sometimes many times their strength. It’s stupid beyond belief. It’s almost as stupid as Cuomo arguing for 12 year old girls to chill out about seeing grown men’s penis’s.

Although the details aren't given in this story, it was a domestic dispute situation. The common strategy in those cases is to send a female LEO with the male so that the female can speak to the woman involved in the dispute. They separate the two and try to piece together what's going on.

What happened in this case is, it all went bad fast. Hamilton, furious at his wife's 911 call, shot and killed her (in front of their 11-year-old son, BTW), and then turned his weapon on the police.

Evidently there are some who might prefer that females remain "barefoot and pregnant" as the little wife, maybe be permitted by their fathers to go to college to get an "MRS Degree" (I LOL'd at that, BenLurkin) so they could find a husband - again, to keep them at home - but women can serve some critical functions in emergency situations.

My daughter is a Paramedic and an ER Nurse. While driving an ambulance during a huge snow storm, she was the only one in the response team that heard the cries of a little girl who had been thrown from the crashed car. She went and found her, legs broken, in a snow bank 20 feet away. I've heard stories of females having better hearing than men.

Another time, they went on call to an elderly woman with alzheimer's who'd been reported missing. The cops contacted her ambulance: they found the woman sitting on a grassy highway divider. My daughter and her male ER companion went to get the woman. When they arrived, they found the woman confused and frightened. The cop was yelling at her to get up. My daughter's friend tried to convince the woman to come with her. The two males were standing over her, talking down to the frightened and confused lady.

My daughter, sizing up the situation, did something different: she sat down next to her. "Hi, I'm [my daughter's name]. Are you OK?"

"I want to go home." The woman told her.

"I can help you. Will you come with me?" And reached out her hand.

"OK." And took my daughter's hand. They got up and walked to the ambulance, to the amazement of the cop and my daughter's partner.

I agree with you, Cen-Tejas. "Sanity" and "common sense" are rare. Women don't belong in streets and alleys engaging in shootouts and knife fights and fist fights with violent men. But they can serve a purpose - if they choose - beyond being the "little woman" doing nothing besides being Beaver's Mom. This isn't the 50's anymore. (not saying that's you, Cen-Tejas)

Oh, and BTW, my daughter is raising four wonderful kids, and they couldn't be prouder of having a nurse and paramedic for a mother.