She wasn't being harmed directly. As a matter of fact she stayed in her house, as she should have. She's speaking about the if she had a gun when the boy was screaming for help. There is a sense of invincibility with the gun. Because her having the gun might have helped the situation...adding that to her entering the fray with the gun. Who would she be pointing it against? Trayvon or Zimmerman and if the other 13 year old Black boy entered the situation with his dog. Who would be the enemy?
I'm not looking at her in a life or death situation where her person or those close to her are hurt. I'm speaking about this situation. I remember in the Arizona shooting of Gabrielle Giffords...a man had a gun on and he said that if he wasn't careful he would have shot someone who was saving the day because he was the one he saw with the gun not realizing that the gun man was down. I believe he said he thanked God he hesitated and has yet to really touch the gun since. His response in the situation could have made it worse because he thought his gun would help save the day. Instead the gun could have or would have caused far more problems if he used it.