Problem is, these were normal, non-evil people. Normal, non-evil people don't understand or recognize evil people.
All I am saying is to learn from the misfortune of these innocent people that complying with kidnappers does not work out well. This was five against two. If they had all agreed beforehand that if something like this ever happened to them they would all jump on the perps at once, things would have turned out very differently. These guys would never have expected resistance, and may have been taken down like the cowardly scum that they are.
Just decide never to be a victim. That's the personal decision I've made.
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