Future stories like this (with a happy ending)will always point out the flaws (real or created)in the hero, no matter how small or irrelevant it is to the big picture. Big picture being: when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Upcoming stories on this will be sure to include media handwringing and liberal guilt over why she didn’t “shoot to wound” , use a bean bag gun, taser or other silly notions.I’m sure if I look hard enough, I could find the obligatory web posting by some idiot asking why she didn’t just ‘shoot the gun out of his hands’.
Well, you know, that is what the Lone Ranger or Roy Rogers would have done. Superman would just bend the barrel in half. :-))
There were posts both asking why she had to shoot him six times, and asking why she didn't just shoot him in the legs on a Colorado newspaper site that mvpel posted on.