“I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident,” she says.
The sheriff disagreed.
“She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or ‘anything’ could have happened,” recalls Patterson.
Even if his mother was walking there too, it’s not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She’d just be some extra mass to fling.
Kidnappings – and a number of other serious crimes – are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.
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There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.
Even more lopsided than I’d expected.
And as for “anything” happening, I’d imagine that “anything” could have happened at home, too.
Seaching Kagi. I used to use googles when I used Google as my search engine; now I use Kagi.
I really gotta arm myself for the eventually of a sheriff disagreeing with me.
I am hoping that this is in the figurative sense. I don’t think that a shootout would have improved her situation.
Had the same gut reaction. And I am armed and skilled. FFS, the state is going to arrest me in front of my family for this bullshit?! Hard no. I’ll turn this house into a political SPECTACLE.
If enough people draw the line, the line will exist. It’s just a hard personal sell and everyone generally will think that others just want them to draw the line and not themselves. Getting large numbers of people to “not let that slide” to discourage something is difficult AF
