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Note that they aren't doing it in the -- um -- "colored" neighborhoods of DC where 70% of the males are armed.

There have been 86 killings in Oakland Ca so far this year. 2 more than all of last year.

Oakland is scary - my great aunt lived in Richmond (i think that is the name) when we moved her back home to a nursing home, the Lawyers told us not even to come out, they hired people to sort thru the house & shipped anything of value back to us.

She & her husband moved there in '42 to work in the Lockheed plant (he was half blind). There were cotton fields around there house when they moved there.

There have been 86 killings in Oakland Ca so far this year. 2 more than all of last year.

It does pay to put this whole sniper thing into context. Nine unnecessary deaths is nine too many but viewed as another element of the total murder rate in this country it is not significant.

In fact, the risks you take when you drive your car are certainly much greater than then they are walking and shopping around Maryland and Virgina.

Here are the US Department of Transportation statistics:

"The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) decreased slightly. It was 1.52 in 2001, a small reduction from the final 2000 rate of 1.53. The total number of people killed in highway crashes in 2001 was 42,116, compared to 41,945 in 2000."

The bottom line is that the American people are not going to be intimidated by 1 sniper cell or twenty. We will survive this and we will hunt them down, every last one of them.