Generally, in cases similar to this, the suspect, if alone, will force one individual/victim, usually the weaker one, to tie or tape up the others first, while he holds the gun.
from his blog
I committed a sex crime when I was very young. I was sentenced to a sex offender program for adults where half the men in my 'treatment group' sat and fantasized about me.
After two years I was a 'senior member' when the state therapist paid a surprise visit to my mother's house and propositioned her saying it "would help your son in the program if you co-operate with me." When she told me about it I quit the program and was sent to prison where according to at least one official report that was written before I was sentenced, “Because of his appearance and age he would likely be abused by other inmates if sent to prison…” true story.
I thought I would only do a few years and get out not having to be around such 'evil' people who represent the system. But, because of 'sex offender hysteria' I ended up spending over 12 more years in prison before finally being awarded parole. All my psych reports say I am a low risk; I was just a kid acting out confusion over my own abuse and study's show conclusively that my type of offense is rarely repeated.
And yet almost 30 years later, while I have no parole nor have I ever committed a new crime, the police insist on knocking on my door several times a year, and sometimes in the wee hours, as a matter of ‘Magnus Genius’ to check that I still live here. I have no privacy at all. Anyone in the State, Country, even World can find out where I live, what I look like, and what I did when I was a kid just by typing my name on any Web browser. This does not only hurt me; if that was all I could accept it because what I did was bad.
But it hurts my mother, my family, my friends, and even my neighbors who think I’m a great guy, until they find out, then they are afraid of me. It hurts society because it scares people into thinking every strange person is a suspect and at the same time deceives them into thinking the government can make them safe by telling them about “the really bad ones.” Even the Fargo Police web site admits few convicted sex offenders ever re-offend. The majority of sex offender convictions are first time convictions, most sex offenders do not re-offend after being caught.
That is a stone cold fact that no one can deny in the face of the evidence, and yet people refuse to look at the direct implications; the truth! So these laws only harasses convicted sex offenders and are an inherent waste of effort, in fact even more detrimental to the safety of our society since they create the classic victim mentality; the victims sense of false security allows ‘un-convicted offenders’ to put themselves in a position to abuse, then the victims ‘fear’ lets the offender get away with it for longer.
It seriously hampers any attempts on the offender’s part to date women, and makes it difficult for them to even have good friends. So, some of the more ignorant people in the world will read this and think, “they deserve it.” I call these people ignorant because they don’t see the hurt they are causing, more children, more victims, just because they are afraid to admit their own secret desires.