[SLB]

I did a search and did not find this article. If it has alredy been posted, I apologize, if not - it is well worth the read.

[Asclepius]

... it is well worth the read ...

I'll say.

Sobering. Like a slap in the face.

[JRandomFreeper]

Ping.

[agrace]

Definitely well worth the read.

[carenot]

Thanks for the article.

JJ is right.

[MHGinTN]

About time J.J. spoke out! This guy is a clear thinker, and more like him are needed East of the Mississippi! J.J. is an American (and just happens to be a black man, a MAN, and a conservative) and is not afraid to tell it like it is! WE ARE AT WAR, under fire on 'their' terms. Keep 'em comin' J.J.! We need the clarity, guy.

[FreeTally]

Hence, only time will tell when suddenly concealed carry laws are lifted (or simply not enforced), so that the soldiers in this new war (the citizens), may have the means of neuturalizing such threats upon discovery.

Some other freepers pointed out on another thread hoe much of a bogus argument this is. The author here refutes himself too by calling the perp a "Soldier". A handgun under the shirt of a person near a victim is going to do no good stopping an "invisible" sniper a couple hundred yards away.

The author's heart is in the right place, but is silly to say that anti-concealed weapon laws make it any less safe for people in this specific situation where you have a sniper gunning down people from long range.

[hang 'em]

Anybody know what the distances of these one-shot-one-kill shots are? That would give us a quantitative measure of the skill of the perp. Is he military trained or just a run of the mill deer hunter type?

[dd5339]

I'm wondering when they're going to break out the radar that the military uses for counter battery fire.

Lawrence Livermore proved it can be used to track a bullet. Set it up with some cameras in likely areas and see what shows up.

Semper Fi

[hattend]

BTTT.

[da_toolman]

lock and load

[sultan88]

"Surely the profilers are trying to figure out some way of saying this lone gunman is some nut - some crazy white guy that gets a monthly high from reading Soldier of Fortune, probably hates the New World Order, and is of course, a believer in the Second Amendment, Turner Diaries, etc.."

Sorta like Oklahoma City, huh?

[Teacher317]

Bookmarked and bumped

[Vicki]

Bump

[JulieRNR21]

BUMP & PING

[AdamSelene235]

We're dealing with a professional, someone who is becoming pretty good at one shot - one kill. This person is not firing several shots at random, and is deadly accurate.

A professional sniper would not choose a .223 due to its poor ballistics and mediocre wounding ability.

Most folks can reliably hit 100m targets with a .223 after a day or two of practice. It is unlikely the gunman is a "pro". An Al-Queda terrorist on a tight budget, perhaps.

[EternalHope]

Nicely said.

It is obvious that our current strategy includes a refusal to call anything terrorism, even when that is obviously what it is. In the past, anti-terrorism "experts" have concluded that denying the terrorists recognition for their actions helps discourage future terrorist acts.

However, even if this was true in the past, I doubt if it is still true today. The public needs to be told the truth. We can handle it.

[Spiff]

Just like the LA International Airport shootings - they'll say it isn't terrorism even in the face of overwhelming evidence. And then later, quietly, they'll admit the terrorist link. That is the programmed response.

[John H K]

Not the American Airlines flight over New York City a year ago, not the string of oil refinery explosions, unexplained train derailments, not the nutcases attacking Greyhound bus drivers, and heaven forbid - that Anthrax thing was an anomaly, just like the West Nile Virus and the new cases of malaria popping up in the same area of the shooting. Just individual crazed lunatics mind you, not terrorism.

1) There isn't the slightest scrap of evidence that terrorism had anything to do with Flight 587.

2) Oil refineries are massive complexes chock-full of things that burn are explode. Sometimes they burn or explode, and this has happened since the first refinery was built. No one has presented any evidence that there are more oil refineries exploding or burning in the last year than usual. And it IS the responsibility of someone claiming these are terrorist incidents to search for and present such evidence, NOT the responsibility of those claiming they aren't.

And believe me, I've had to put up with this garbage before, from the Y2K loons on the old Timebomb 2000 board. You couldn't have a fire in a trashcan started by a cigarette butt at an oil refinery in early 2000 without somebody claiming it was the beginning of the Y2K meltdown.

3) There has been NO increase in train accidents or train derailments in the last year. This WAS researchable and the data was posted on several of the train derailment threads on FR.

4) None of the Greyhound bus attackers were "Middle Eastern", Muslim, or were found to have the slightest connection to any terrorist network.

5) Malaria USED to be endemic in the Continental US and it's not particularly surprising to have it return, particularly with restrictions on spraying and insecticides.

6) New diseases, old diseases arriving from a different area of the world so they're new to the US, or new forms of diseases, pop up. Legionnaire's disease, the 1918 Flu Pandemic, etc. It doesn't require human intervention.

Nobody thinks the 1918 flu was biowarfare. If it popped up this winter, (or something like it, and that could happen ANY year) I think it's a safe assumption that every single person on FR would assume it was bioterrorism, and be violently hostile to anyone suggesting that it wasn't.

Let's face it...the author, like many FR posters, is upset about the relative absence of terror attacks in the US in the last year. We've had a grand total of ONE Middle Eastern Male actually commit an act of terror in the entire US in the last year, and a grand total of TWO Muslims (including Richard Reid, who was at least on an aircraft headed towards the US, though he wasn't actually here when he tried to set off his shoe) committ acts of terror in the US in the last year.

The above aren't spin, they aren't deceptively worded statements; they're simple statements of fact.

And I'm talking about ACTS OF TERROR. Whatever dreams Padilla or those wannabe kooks in Oregon had don't count in ACTS OF TERROR because they didn't actually do anything. Could they have done something if they hadn't been caught? Sure. But we'll never know.

And this is a dilemma for the "ALL Muslims are Evil Terrorists/We're in WWIII" crowd; it's the same dilemma that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton face every day they wake up and some dumb white redneck hasn't dragged a black man to his death behind a truck the day before...and that's pretty much every day, because the supply of violent white racists is far lower than Jackson's and Sharpton's political agendas demand, just as the supply of violent Islamic terrorists in the US is far lower than the political agendas of a lot of people who post on FR, and who are popular writers of articles that get posted on FR, demand.

[Dog]

11 shootings????

[Voltage]

When the murderer is found and convicted he will probably be sentenced to Death by Old Age, along with room and board, free legal assistance, cable tv, the finest health club facilities money can buy etc.