So, would you allow a woman 7-8 months pregnant to shot you just because she is pregnant? Lost in all of this are charges she would face for purposefully hitting a motorcycle. She could have killed the man on the bike, yet we are to give her a pass because she is pregnant? Could he have followed her home and wait down the road, maybe. They already called the cops and were waiting. Once she came out of the house with a gun, she escalated the situation not the biker. You are correct about the click bait title of the article.
Heck, I don’t know.
I don’t claim to know how I would react if a woman 7-8 months pregnant pointed a gun at me, knowing how crazy women can be, their body completely inundated with hormones...they aren’t “normal” sometimes.
I don’t even know for certain how I would react if someone pointed a gun at me, regardless of anything else. I would hope I would be able to act decisively, but...it has been my experience that how people react in their initial experience, as in combat, is highly variable. I don’t know if I would be able to draw, aim, and pull the trigger, or if I would freeze, or...if I am one of those people who couldn’t do it.
I just don’t know, and I would be full of bravado I could declare that I would be able to function. I think I could, but...I just don’t know.
I admit, if I were looking at her with her big belly sticking out, my first reaction would not to draw and shoot, my first reaction would be to show my hands and then say “Hang on. Let’s talk about this, lady. You have a baby to think of...” (or something like that)
I would have likely tried to deescalate. And I fully grant, for the purposes of self preservation, I would likely be toast. If that makes me weak, well, I guess I would be dead and weak.
I suspect, even if I didn’t draw and was shot dead, I would be the villain no matter what anyway. Heck, this guy may be a villain no matter what.
He isn’t a villain in my eyes, but it is clear to me he is being set up for that. Hell, he is going to have to live with it. And that isn’t easy for anyone.
She is the one at fault here, but she will get a pass, no doubt. I just hope he is able to come to grips with it.