Chavez: "Laser sniper tried to kill me"

EFE through NoticieroDigital.com (translation) ^ | 11/27/2007

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. GRRRRREAT FReeper comments/perspective BUMP!

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

Two thoughts.

First, 100 or 200 meters away is not a sniper shot, that's a turkey shoot. A real sniper would be a heck of a lot further away. Helps with the post-shot escape and evasion planning.

Second, a real sniper wouldn't use a laser sight - for the very reason that it can alert the target that someone is sighting in on them. All you need is a very good scope. A laser is for point-and-shoot quickies - like in the same room or from across the street.

This guy is making it up as a ploy for sympathy.

[mimaw]

They would have to aim at his somewhere else to kill him, he has no heart and his brains are in his @ss.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

I've heard the big 50s have confirmed kills in Afghanistan at nearly 2 miles...mountain top to mountain top... IIRC there was also a confirmed kill in Somalia (?) a few years back at over a mile - took down a mortar site...

That just never fails to impress the heck out of me. I'm a fair shot at best and have trouble hitting what I want much beyond 300 yds...sigh.

[Jaded]

In the [campaign] event, he repeated that recently "a strange light traveled through my body, around here, where my heart is, and then around here", he said while pointing to his head.

That sounds eerily like something Amin-a-nut-job said a while back. What is it with these loons.

[magslinger]

Hugo,

Every morning, take a deep breath

If you can, we don't want you dead.

Yet.

[monkeycard]

Syphilis??

Could that or Genital Leprosy, who knows?

[norton]

"Hugo - The gift that keeps on taking talking".

[norton]

Speaking of Spanish speaking crises - is St Jaques still posting?

[Ditto]

Real snipers don’t need lasers.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

He is hurting from the criticism of his stupid antics in the last few weeks. He needs sympathy, so he’s playing the victim. Tried and true tactic of the left.
And there’s an election and he’s afraid of losing - he might have to get a real job and work for a living.

[KosmicKitty]

Too bad they missed ;-)

[BobS]

"I've heard the big 50s have confirmed kills in Afghanistan at nearly 2 miles."

And farther than 2 miles. It requires a spotter and a sharpshooter. The spotter runs the rangefinder, prevailing wind indicator and the laptop. The shooter relies on exactly what the spotter says how to aim. It could be 10 feet off target at an angle at that distance.

" I'm a fair shot at best and have trouble hitting what I want much beyond 300 yds...sigh."

I got a ribbon for the M-16 at 200. And neither of us can get or afford the equipment or SW if THAT was availiable. And that scope is different and boresighted to mate the .50 cal. Maybe some Special Forces guy can check in and improve on what I saw 5 years ago.

Bear hunting could be turned into a harvest.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“You know it wasn’t an American sniper or he’d be dead.”

Tee-Hee. :)

[cll]

He hasn’t pinged me in a long time.