Speaking of shotguns, I always thought the AA-12 would be perfect for home defense/remodeling.
Despite emotional pleas, one of country's strictest anti-trans bills becomes law in Kentucky
As it should be. If you have to resort to an emotional argument against a logical stance, you either don't have a valid argument or are ill-equipped to argue it.
- Is the pope catholic? (unironically)
Depends what you mean by freezing up. Pretty much everyone "freezes" for a moment when confronted with an unexpected threat to life. It's an evolutionary threat-assessment thing. How long that lasts is a matter of personality, exposure and training, and yes, women generally fair worse. The freeze response you're referring to is quite different though.
If you've hunted, or legitimately startled someone in a self-defense situation, you'll know that the freezing is accurately named. Think stunned rabbit. Rapid breathing, wide eyes, minimal to no movement, incoherent mumbling or repeated simple sentences.This is not it. She did respond, and her response was to exploit a social network against the threat. A predictable outcome.
That said, it's a shit situation, and one that could have easily required escalation. I'm more concerned about the fact that she closed distance on, and repeatedly put herself between two potential attackers - both of whom where unresponsive to verbal orders and willing to kill a man in front of a cop. Unless this is some rural melodrama and they're her cousins, that's terrible self-preservation right there.
That, and the fact that despite being book-ended by greater tragedies, questioning the holocaust is a criminal offence in multiple countries while those tragedies are either overlooked or presented in a positive light by left-wing media and educational institutions.
It's nothing more than a pity grift at this point, and should be treated as such. No sacred cows, for anyone.
Likely panic. The badge and stern voice didn't work, so now she's confronted with either intervening and risking actual physical retaliation, or wandering around helplessly while repeatedly radioing for help (which she did).
"Tend and befriend" is the dominant fight or flight response from women.
I think that's overly optimistic.
Men and women, generally speaking, have entirely different risk aversion profiles. Testosterone is directly implicated. Men also have considerably faster reaction times, better spatial reasoning and coordination, and considerably higher upper body strength for a reason. This isn't the result of a lack of life experience, this is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Outliers exist, but generally speaking, women are not suited to such roles.
Human error is a thing, and to that I am sympathetic.
While I'm not sure how it played out, assuming it wasn't the result of retarded weapon handling, this likely means she allowed a wild animal to get close enough to prompt such an extreme firing angle. Hopefully the lesson has been learned.
As to achieve net zero, allow the French farmers to use them as fertilizer.