Honestly? It can be a good thing for a woman to stop a guy from going ape shit cause he can throw his life away for short term gain even if it's somewhat justified.
My dad almost killed someone if it wasn't for my mom. Road rage thing too. Some idiot cut off my dad as he and mom were driving I think and when my dad yelled at him what the hell did he think he was doing.
The prick got OUT of the car and started to tough guy bs his way to my dad's car during a redlight. My dad was armed and he was just waiting for the guy to like open the door, reach into the window, or some shit just give him the excuse to unload. In fact, he lowered the window just to give this fucker the opening if he dared to try to get physical
Mom more or less had to yell at and push him to just drive off and leave and that it wasn't worth it.
From what I was told, the dipshit was swaggering back into his car like on some alpha male bs trying to show off to the rest of the road. He did not realize how close he was to losing his life.
I think you don't realize thats STILL a lower level of anger/different scenario. In your story he was merely BAITING an opportunity, he wasn't actually approaching and trying to kill him. SOME semblance of self control was already being used, He was fuming, but not ACTUALLY in a rage. Beyond that, sounds like if he DID shoot him, it would of been legal self defense? its not comparable for all those reasons.
he also wasn't being physically impeded WHILE being physically engaged, he was sitting on his ass, in his car, clutching his gun(?). This was VERBALLY induced when tunnel vision wasn't actually fully happening, not trying to PHYSICALLY stop a man twice her size when he's already in tunnel vision. Thats a good barometer, is the guy STANDING UP, and especially MOVING at a high pace. If a fat fuck like wings is MOVING at his top speed when he normally don't move for shit, thats a grade A sign hes in that zone
I'm talking especially about where a dude is raving, running around, pushing shit over, in a rush, where hes ALREADY in such a mood to where his mind it made up to do x, either due to mounting crisis, or highly tense scenarios. If you see a guy has tunnel vision going towards something and hes physically VERY determined to get towards it, physically getting IN FRONT OF a guy whos moving like a FREIGHT TRAIN, is going to result in getting run over. Its a physiological thing, when a guy is in THAT level, you only stop him by letting the rage burn out, OR being a physical match to ACTUALLY stop him. Anything else is pointless.
if anything, discharging a firearm into the ground MIGHT of snapped wings into reality again just from pure "oh shit" factor. But my main point is, if a guy is REALLY in such tunnel vision angry mindset, his empathy is essentially crippled AF because hes in "combat" mode, which means if you get in the way / try to impede him, at best he accidentally hurts you because you are like a person trying to stop a freight train, or at WORST he throws you out the way because hes cave man ass mind thinks "obstacle in way, remove obstacle".
Its not me endorsing such behavior, but again, I've DISTINCTLY seen this exact process happen so many times. Unless you have a means to FORCE the man to comply when hes THAT mad (tazer, gun, means to knock him out / incapacitate / pin him, whatever) or hes seriously endangering something important (a child, a woman, or hes going to unlawfully kill someone) Just stay out the way, because 9 times out of 10, physically getting involved 1, won''t even slow him down, and 2, puts you in the danger zone.
