[discostu]

I’m not buying there were no options. Just the time it took to get the gun and make the shot meant they had other options. Then of course there’s the fact that sometimes shots miss, if they’d just wounded the gorilla you wind up in the boat people are claiming a tranq would have put them in. Sorry, they had a choice, they chose poorly.

[familyop]

"I’m not buying there were no options. Just the time it took to get the gun and make the shot meant they had other options."

It would not have been wise to have tried fooling the gorilla into giving up a child.

"Then of course there’s the fact that sometimes shots miss, if they’d just wounded the gorilla you wind up in the boat people are claiming a tranq would have put them in. Sorry, they had a choice, they chose poorly."

The shot was more sure for the safety of the child than a tranquilizer. Such tranquilizers take several minutes to put an animal to sleep. Higher dosages don't bring unconsciousness noticeably quicker. I've used them. When a tranquilizer dart hits a dangerous animal, the animal will usually start running away. If a tranquilizer dart hits a dangerous animal with a person very close to it, the animal might attack the person instead.

A bullet either just above and between the eyes or between the eye and ear of any one of at least most dangerous animals will instantly stun (completely stop) the animal and lead to death within a matter of seconds. The likelihood of a good hit from a good rifleman at relatively short range (zoo situation, for example) is very high. I've seen cattle (including large bulls) and other large animals stunned many times with .22 LR bullets with never a miss. Larger bore rounds to certain other vital targets can have the same effect (immediate unconsciousness from venal over-pressure to the brain).

Concern for the gorilla and contempt for the human beings involved is excessive, and we notice that such inexplicably emotional concerns and contempt have been on the increase in very recent decades. It's much like the so-called road rage excesses and regulatory putsches as efforts toward making many human beings homeless. It's also strange, how so many of the mentally or spiritually affected are making unrealistic, murderous plans for the end of the world. They do so while robbing their neighbors with fees, taxes and prohibitions against using their own land.

May it all run its course and come to a conclusion soon.