Re: Death Note.......I Think I Missed Something

On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:13:00 -0500, Doug Jacobs
<djacobs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Mark Jones <faferd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I had thought that Lights father had rescued his sister in last weeks
>> episode, but she obviously wasn't back to her old self
>> Saturday.........was she just in shock, or was it something worse?
>
>My wife read the manga as she got tired of waiting a week to find out
what 
>happens next.  According to her, Saiyu basically goes into shock and
never 
>really recovers after being taken hostage.  Seems pretty strange to 
>me...but then this seems to have acted as a catalyst for the father's 
>actions later in the episode.
>
>The thing I don't get is why the father faltered?  He was clearly in a 
>"kill or be killed" situation.  The target had already taken out several 
>cops already.  Why didn't the father have a gun?  They weren't in Japan, 
>so it wouldn't have been illegal for him - and I'd think the US cops
would 
>think it suicidal NOT to have a gun in that situation.  I know that 
>Japanese cops don't carry guns, 

Japanese cops don't carry guns on routine patrol, but that doesn't
mean they don't carry when they are making an arrest of a suspect they
have reason to think might be armed.