56yr Old Woman shoots and kills intruder. Audio

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Originally Posted by mrnbcox

Dude, a 56yr woman awakened by a man banging on her door and then busting through. She is not thinking anything about reasoning, she is trying to survive.

It's a major tragedy, but I don't know that I would have done different. You never know how you will react in those situations

I'm not trying to fault her, I was just wondering what the pros and cons would have been for announcing to him that she was armed and on the phone with the police. Honestly she did not strike me as a frightened, rattled woman. She was remarkably level headed throughout. It was also not like she woke up and had a man standing over her and did not have time to react, think, or gain the upper hand. It may simply be different for me as a younger man and she as an older woman though.