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She's certainly justified in defending herself, but it may or may not have been the wisest thing to do. If he had, in fact, had a gun to her head, he very easily could have opened fire the second she started to struggle. If not then, he certainly might have fired when she went for her own gun. It really depends on the situation, but the advice I've always heard is to go ahead and give someone your car if that sort of thing happens. On average, the people who give up the car are LESS LIKELY to get hurt and after all, it's only a car.

Like I said, though, this defnitely depends on the circumstances and in this case she hopefully gave the guy enough of a scare that he will think twice before trying anything that stupid again.

I'm really up in the air on the value of firearms. If everyone in the country had a gun, would it create a situation more like Switzerland, with one of the lowest crime rates in the world or South Africa, with one of the highest?

If everyone in the country had a gun, would it create a situation more like Switzerland, with one of the lowest crime rates in the world or South Africa, with one of the highest?

In Switzerland most people have hope for a good long life, in South Africa most people (except the Zulu's) have no hope for any kind of decent life. When you live in a hopeless society, human life is cheap. I expect that Americans are much closer to Switzerland than South Africa on the matter of hope for the most part.

And if history is any example, we will be much less violence prone when more of us are armed. After all, until a few decades ago, our gun death rates were much, much lower and more people had guns.