“Your impulses can take over and you react without thinking when you’re angry,” she added. “Now that I think about it, if he had been armed, everything might have gone differently.”
Fortunately, he wasn’t, but she was, although only carrying an umbrella. He should have learnt his lesson and served as a role model for those who may consider taking a similar action.
Never undervalue the sacrifice a woman will make for her kid at a period of intense emotion. As the expression goes, the space between a mother and her infant is the most deadly spot on earth.