Are you serious? Do you wait until the gorilla kills him or do you try to reason with a gorilla to give up the kid? I don't understand people like you. A child was in danger. A HUGE GORILLA was dragging him around and tossing him around like a rag doll. And you want to wait to see IF the gorilla would have killed him??? The KID is alive for CERTAIN because of the actions they took.
It’s been done in the past. Send in the keepers, work the animal into their pen. They DO have the ability to control the animals without tranqs. I want them to TRY some other method. Have the gun around if things look to be not working but TRY to handle it without the gun. After all, this isn’t the first time this has happened, and most of the previous times they got the kids out without killing the animal. So clearly it can be done, has been done, could be done if the zoo in question isn’t run by morons.