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To: FlyVet
A SWAT team was called in to take her into custody.

When you have a SWAT team as a hammer, even a 15 year old girl armed with a bow and arrow looks like a nail!

14 posted on 05/26/2011 4:29:11 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (Blacks are not inferior, but it is racist to hold them to the same standards as everyone else.)
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To: PalmettoMason
When you have a SWAT team as a hammer, even a 15 year old girl armed with a bow and arrow looks like a nail!

I'm not a big fan of the over-use of SWAT teams either, but I don't think this case is one of them. She'd just demonstrated her willingness to kill. Running off into her familiar woods she could easily take out a few individual cops before somebody got to her. With the team, there's probably a better chance of pinning her down, overwhelming her and taking her alive.

28 posted on 05/26/2011 5:05:31 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: PalmettoMason
When you have a SWAT team as a hammer, even a 15 year old girl armed with a bow and arrow looks like a nail!

This is one of rare cases when use of SWAT is completely justified. First, she attempted murder already. Second, have you ever seen a broadhead arrow up close & personal? They are super-sharp, and they can take a grown deer in one hit. Arrows were one of main weapons of war for centuries for a good reason - they are deadly. Any common LEO who in search of this suspect walks into the forest without armor is likely to not walk out.

30 posted on 05/26/2011 5:09:56 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: PalmettoMason

A 15 year old with a hunting bow who knows how to use it and showed a willingness to by shooting and trying to kill her own father.

That warrants a SWAT team, IMO.

If she’s willing to shoot her own father, she won’t stop at anyone else.


46 posted on 05/26/2011 6:07:09 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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