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To: freedox
I suspect that trying to stop people from searching for their neighbor's missing child may be a lot more difficult in Utah than in a lot of other places. And how much danger was there, really, with 40-50 people searching in the immediate area? A single armed gunman would be pretty unlikely to try to take someone on in that situation, and if he did actually fire and hit someone, the victim would get immediate help AND the gunman would almost certainly be caught, leading to finding Elizabeth. The alternative is to seriously delay a thorough search of the area. Not such a tough call in my book. Remember what happened to little Charlotte Hansen in the course of just a few minutes -- and doctors said that just a few more minutes delay in getting her to the hospital, and they probably wouldn't have been able to save her.

Has anyone heard any updates on Charlotte?
1,010 posted on 09/25/2002 7:42:19 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"And how much danger was there, really, with 40-50 people searching in the immediate area?"

If a desperate armed gunman was involved, there would have been life-or-death danger to any one of those 40-50 people who happened to stumble across him. (Remember Ricci and the police officer?)

"A single armed gunman would be pretty unlikely to try to take someone on in that situation...."

A single armed gunman would also be pretty unlikely to abduct a teenager from an upstairs bedroom that she shared with her sister......but that's what we're told happened.

1,015 posted on 09/25/2002 7:50:15 PM PDT by freedox
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To: GovernmentShrinker
About the people all coming out to help--

THANK YOU, Government Shrinker, for making the point some of us have been trying so hard to make!!
1,017 posted on 09/25/2002 7:53:22 PM PDT by Devil_Anse
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To: GovernmentShrinker
"The alternative is to seriously delay a thorough search of the area. Not such a tough call in my book."

So you think the police actively solicited the assistance of unarmed citizens to help them in their search for an armed gunman? Why do you think those "Wanted" posters at the post office always warn people NOT to attempt an apprehension, but to contact the police?

1,023 posted on 09/25/2002 8:01:00 PM PDT by freedox
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