“Actually, she backed down when one of them pulled a knife and her “shots” only served to piss the guy off. A .357 would have been more efficacious.”
Nothing wrong with backing down in the right circumstances.
She handled it exactly right for the circumstances.
She wasn’t harmed, the perps were arrested and SHE didn’t get arrested, nor does she have to worry about a “wrongful death “ lawsuit. (or some dumb-ass overzealous prosecutor trying to make a name for himself)
I am all for being armed, but shooting the idiots isn’t always the best answer.
Ditto. Unfortunately self defense is a fine line of weighing a lot of factors involved in one's safety in that situation and long term. Obviously do what you can do protect yourself in the circumstance, but sometimes that means moving away from a situation. It really does take a cool head to think through the situation like she did versus just react.
In this case, it happened to work out that way, but one of them did pull a knife. It could've gone real bad, real quick. She was lucky.