[Mustard]

Let's not forget Charles Whitman who on Monday August 1, 1966 climbed the tower at the U of Texas and killed 16 people and wounded 33 others with a Remington Model 700 6mm with a 4x Leopold scope and a bare (unscoped) .30 M-1 carbine. Two of Whitman's shots approached 1000 yards. Whitman was a former US Marine who had fired "expert" at rapid fire distance. He was not a marine "sniper" he was just an ordinary marine "rifleman."

An ordinary rifle in the hands of a good shooter. If Whitman would have had better weapons there would have been over 40 dead that day. As one Texas Ranger was quoted as saying that fateful day: "That ain't just shootin', that's a marine shootin'."

I make these points (as did you)to illustrate that it is not the weapon but more the shooter. So far the Maryland shooter has not displayed a great skill at shooting. I don't believe any of the shots were farther than 200 yards. What the Maryland shooter has displayed is a cunning for escape and evasion and a steady hand while holding the sights on flesh and pulling the trigger.

Mustard
(forming a counter sniper team in Anne Arundel County Maryland)

[ArrogantBustard]

What the Maryland shooter has displayed is a cunning for escape and evasion and a steady hand while holding the sights on flesh and pulling the trigger.

He's also displayed an appalling, casual disregard for human life. What ever his skills at fieldcraft and marksmanship, he's no sniper. He's a terrorist and a murderer.