I was mostly responding to the people who were grousing about the fact she wasn't packing, and assuming the law prevented her from being armed. It didn't, and people were headed down the wrong path thinking that way.
I once read an account from colonial India (possibly by Kipling, as I recall) where the family residence of a British administrator was entered by a tiger in the middle of the night, and found itself in the bedroom of the children. The family dog, a progenitor of today's 'pit bull' breeds, gave it's life in defense of the children, but held the tiger at bay long enough that the father had time to respond to the commotion and to properly dispatch the cat.