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Why would you go to the trouble of placing "bombs all over the city" if not to use them? I would take that threat and the fact that they had not been detonated
by wavefunction 10y ago
Why would you go to the trouble of placing "bombs all over the city" if not to use them? I would take that threat and the fact that they had not been detonated to signal that the shooter had no bombs in the first place.
- chroma 10y ago> I would take that threat and the fact that they had not been detonated to signal that the shooter had no bombs in the first place. Are you so sure that you'd be willing to bet the lives of potentially hundreds of innocent people? The Dallas PD wasn't. It's easy to be confident now that we have more information. At the time, the guy had already shot a dozen cops. He had body armor. He'd held off SWAT in a firefight. All actions that attested to his preparation and training. His claims about bombs were quite plausible at the time. Likely exaggerated, but still plausible. Let's say the police thought there was a 1 in 50 chance that he had planted one or more bombs. Would you want them to risk a 2% chance of potentially hundreds injuries and deaths just to take the guy alive? I wouldn't.