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> With a phone call and a modicum of due diligence, everyone would have been safe.

Isn't it substantially more likely the officer would've been shot, and the ferry driver forced to take the trip at gunpoint anyways?

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The ferry was at quai on the island. It was actually sent across to the mainland on Breivik's request. Anyway, even if hijacked at gunpoint, consider that 600 people would have had 5 to 10 minutes warning that a lone gunman was approaching on a small vessel with only one possible point of entry.

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