"You have to at some point in time, take responsibility yourself for your own safety and that’s all I was doing,” she said. That attitude would go a long way toward solving a lot of the problems in this country, not only with safety but with life in general. I think the dog that woke her up deserves a lot of credit too. I bet the hoodlums wasted no time telling their partners in crime that this lady had a dog and a gun and that there are probably easier pickins' somewhere else.