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Old 07-24-2002, 10:10 PM   #40
MaggieL
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Originally posted by dhamsaic


Perhaps she would have recognized them and been able to give the police the names of the kidnappers that night.
Perhaps. Have you seen a report that she knew them well enough to identify them?
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Originally posted by dhamsaic

Or perhaps she was packing a Glock 21 and could have dropped their asses right there.
That's also a "perhaps". But, knowing how much it costs to use a shooting range in Philly, I doubt that even if grandmom was licenced to carry and even assuming that she had as expensive a gun as a Glock, that she would have been proficient enough to drop a hostage taker without seriously endangering the child hostage.

Have you ever shot a handgun against a "hostage shield" target? It's humbling.
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