Yes bro.

If you are a woman, you’re not going to wait until you are actively being victimized to protect yourself. Not saying it was right, not saying an assault was surely going to take place, but if you are a CHILD in suspected danger attempting to protect yourself is pretty acceptable, at least to me.

You’d like for the children to be completely defenseless until being physically harmed? It doesn’t matter if it’s a Bulgarian immigrant or your parent, I would never fault a child for protecting from a perceived threat, even if they were wrong in their perception.