Also,many were speaking as if these shootings would have taken a high level of training.
As the shootings continued,I kept thinking about how many regular people,even teenagers,in the U.S. would be able to pull these murders off if they were twisted enough to want to.
To me,the snipers were doing very little more than roadhunting and not even having to stick around long enough to claim their kills.
TM,thanks for the other day and I'll drop you a note when I feel just a tad better. :o)
Good to see you posting BTW, hope you're feeling okay!
Clearly I agree with this statement. The simple factr is that the short range rifle shots were easily made.
To me,the snipers were doing very little more than roadhunting and not even having to stick around long enough to claim their kills.
Excellent analogy.
As to my comments about handguns I was referring to the Moh & Malvo MO. If I were in a situation wher I were not taken out with teh first shot and I were able to identify from where the shot came I could probably return fire effectively with even a handgun. I would expect most of those competent with a handgun could do the same. Now, is it the best and most effective response? Certainly not. Is it better than waiting for 911 if they decided to take a second shot? I would say yes.
Now as to my comment about couter snipers. I would state clearly teh chances of posyioning a police counter sniper team in teh right area are about zero. However, there are a whole lot of competent people out there with rifles who could if called upon do the job. When combioned with high tech survielance very large numbers of people armed with scoped deer rifles could get the job done.