Dolphin-BR wrote:...
9- Even for a shy guy, hiding behind a woman, was a little too much. No man would do that. The girl could have moved in front of him intending to protect him, but he would have pushed her aside.
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I wasn't going to address this but just couldn't let it lie. It's a curse. Sorry.
The idea that anyone has any idea how he or anyone else would react when confronted with an enraged, shotgun wielding, powerful authority figure is simply ludicrous. The first 20+ years of my adult career were in law enforcement. Even with extensive training for just such an occurrence, we don't really know how we will react until it happens. For my first such experience, it was well that I had all that training because that is what kept me alive and moving for the first several seconds when my brain wanted to freeze. The overwhelming reaction is "what - what - what - WTF???" I counseled many trainees over the years who had similar experiences and it is the training and experience that keep us going out to face such things day after day. To expect a shy, computer-geek, recent engineering graduate with little or no experience in such things to suddenly turn all Duke Nukem (dating myself, here) at the first sign of danger is just unrealistic in the extreme. I saw nothing unreal in Kean standing frozen in surprise at the sudden confrontation by Maggie's raging and armed father, while Rita slipped in front and Laura, Nikki, Talia and Maggie moved in. They weren't in danger, he was. Demanding anything more macho from "any man" just smacks of too much time watching movies, TV and video game shooters. Or reading comic books.