Her Ego is beyond comprehension.

After reading Another AWFL willing to sacrifice her children for her politics – Gun Free Zone

She is indeed a mother of 2 unloved children. Why do I say that? Because she is more caring of her failed principles than the lives of her kids. In her own little confused mind, she believes that the killer would be satisfied with just killing her or maybe that he will see the error of his ways and spare the lives of her brood. But more than likely, the murderer would also take the kids either because he is a killer or because he does not want to leave witnesses behind, and you can only be imprisoned for life or executed once no matter how many bodies you leave behind.

If you must die confronting a killer to defend your child, you bring him with you to across the Styx and dump him into Hades.