[Pistias]

Not so much. Once one admits of an eternal soul, death is an important fact, but by far from the most important one. Killing those men would have kept them from ever becoming more than thugs, and the act of killing them may have endangered her soul--killing people is funny like that: you get to like it if you do it too much. Of course, allowing them to commit such a terrible crime is not sensible, either; and if someone tried that with my wife, I guess I'd be imperiling some souls. Of course, a nonlethal but effective solution would be best.

[Wolfstar]

If this story is true — and I never lose sight of the fact that the media make more stuff up than most people realize — then that woman's FIRST OBLIGATION was to her infant son. If the situation had unfolded in a way where she had to make a choice between killing the thugs or allowing her child to be harmed, and she chose inaction rather than to save her baby, no God worthy of the name would approve of her monumental cowardice and selfishness. At least no God I could believe in.

Of course, taking her at her word, the key point is the woman did not have to make the choice since the cops arrived so quickly. So her whole piece is nothing more than an imaginative rationale for her to support gun control.