Either in the book or on Twitter she made the comment that by telling this story some folks will say she is a poor politician, and so be it. Later posts seem to indicate that she is just telling it like it is, and the hard decisions she has had to make both in life and in politics, but she doesn’t care about the optics - just the results.
She is trying to portray herself as the common man and an outsider. But miscalculated on this one I think.
Compare to Nixon’s famous “Checker’s Speech” that kept him in the running. (Hmm - also was meant to appeal to the common man.)
It surprises me that here on FR people are condemning her for being cruel, being tone-deaf, etc. -
- but none of our ‘gun community’ have commented on the fact that it took ‘repeated’ shots...