[x]

“I lived in Harlem long enough to know gunshots do not sound like making popcorn on the stove.”

Something is wrong there. Either she never heard distant gunshots, or she was in a room where somebody was shooting, or she's never heard popcorn being made, or all three.

[Red Badger]

She most likely has never heard a rifle in the distance through a muffed microphone.

All she’s ever heard were handguns at close range............... ..