That’s because the French have surrendering in their blood.
Get 10,000 Frenchmen and women in a situation like that and they’ll do the exact same thing. It could be a million and they’d all wave the white flag toward the three or four Muslim terrorists shooting them one by one.
MD, 100 out of 1500 died in Bataclan - so many survived because they ran.
Given the opportunity, 99 out of 100 people in this situation will run and not charge the attacker.
JH, surrendering is not "in the blood" for the French.
France conquered most of Europe under Napoleon, lost millions in WWI, and fought for decades in Algeria and Vietnam.
Human nature is human nature, and the jihadists will use it against the French, and against the British, and against us.
And plenty of us have lost our nerves and you both know it.