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There is only one word to describe someone who would not come to the aid of a woman fighting off a purse snatcher, coward!
Back when I was younger and 125lbs soaking wet my wife and I came upon a large group of people watching a man beat a woman on a street corner in New Orleans. I stopped the car in the middle of Canal street looked at my wife and said I have to do something. She said do what you have to do to help that woman. My wife knew that this was a dangerous situation and the easy/safe thing to do would have been to walk away. But both of us knew that if she was wearing that womans shoes we would want someone to help her.
I am no cop and I am no hero but I am also no coward. I was not able to get anyone in the crowd to assist me but was able to verbally engage the man and his friends which allowed the woman to escape down the street and into our car which my wife had driven onto the sidewalk for a quick get away. Both the woman and I made it into the car without additional injury to the woman or any injury to myself.
Could it have been much worse? Yes. Would we do it again even now that we have small children? My wife just answered that question with a "You bet - not helping in a situation like that is simply not an option".

My wife refuses to carry in her purse for this very reason. Someone is much more likely to gain access to her purse than they are to an iwb holstered gun.