[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Sorry! In many parts of the country we ARE already "...like over there." Come to Southern Kalifornia.

[NetValue]

"What's also frightening about this shooter, with his high-powered rifle, is that he could be the first real domestic copycat of 9/11, in terms of technique."

Huh? Totally illogical.

[glock rocks]

starting with sane gun control and sane economic policy — to stop this slide into over here becoming like over there.

friedman, i've read better essays by 14 yr. olds. ya need to lay off the wild turkey and find a job.

[Raymond Hendrix]

Do people get paid for writing this tripe? Does he really think that gun control would have prevented this nut from killing people? Are these the so called intellectual elite we hear so much about? I think they are rank fools.

[Clara Lou]

Friedman is such a Democrat. It's impossible to sink any lower than that.

[spodefly]

That this article was written by a grown man and not a prissy 13 year old girl is surprising.

[Southack]

"A lot of us would like to see more weapons inspectors on the streets here, and in the gun shops here, not just in Baghdad."

Yet another Lefty pines for the day that an American police state will save him from his monsters. Hitler, Stalin, and Musolini would be proud of their writer at the NY Times..

[sailor4321]

To equate Saddam with our second amendment rights shows a truly confused mind. Not surprising, coming from the left....

[RogueIsland]

bang

[rockfish59]

What the hell is with these guys named Tom?

FMCDH, B-otch!

[dennisw]

"Frankly, I don't want to hear another word about Iraq right now. I want to hear that my president and my Congress are taking the real steps needed in this country — starting with sane gun control and sane economic policy — to stop this slide into over here becoming like over there."


What an ass. Carrying water for the Dimo-Crats. Tommy Daschle failed to get the Dim's "message" across so Tommy Freidman will give it a try.

[Southack]

"The fact that the president speaks only about Iraq, while his neighbors down the street speak only about the shooter, reinforces the sense that this administration is so obsessed with Saddam it has lost touch with the real anxieties of many Americans."

What can I say? Clearly the author is a liar. GWB is giving numerous speeches on our economy, corporate corruption, stalled legislation in the Senate, et al, yet the author lies about even these easily-verifiable facts. Speaks only about Iraq?! Oh please.

"Mr. Bush wants to rally the nation to impose gun control on Baghdad [another lie], but he won't lift a finger to impose gun control on Bethesda, six miles from the White House."

Friedman really had to stretch to make his point. Even he knows that the entire D.C. territory is under strict gun control, so he had to go just outside the federal zone, into the state of Maryland, and then take a potshot at Bush rather than at the Democratic governor of Maryland.

Clearly Friedman is a Communist ideologue who cares nothing for inconvenient truths.

[Southack]

"Well, "over here" is starting to feel like "over there" way too much. Over there, they just shot up U.S. marines guarding Kuwaiti oil fields, but over here, when I filled my car with gas the other day, I ducked behind a pillar so no drive-by sniper could see me"...

And yet, "over there" in Kuwait there is STRICT gun control, precisely the thing that Friedman wants America to adopt.

Me-thinks that it is Friedman, not Bush, who wants to make it look like "over there" right here in the U.S., and Freud would have a field-day with Thomas' overt examples of Projectionism...

[DBtoo]

I don't like the tone of this article, but I knew it was coming. We'll be seeing many more like this.

[paul51]

If the government would just take all the guns away and fix the economy........and stop making the rest of the world mad at us. Oh, and stop cutting all the trees down. Oh, and it's all about oil anyhow. Oh, and if only Hillary was president because it takes a village....

[logic101.net]

To a lib any excuse to disarm law abiding citizens is a good excuse. Never mind that if we didn't have "sane gun control" already people in the area would be armed and soon a corpse holding a AR-15 would be found!

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[spunkets]

"Code Blue means they're locked in their public school building because a potential shooter is in the area, and Code Red means they are locked in their classroom because there may be a gunman in the building."

Conditioning.

[L_Von_Mises]

The fact that the president speaks only about Iraq, while his neighbors down the street speak only about the shooter, reinforces the sense that this administration is so obsessed with Saddam it has lost touch with the real anxieties of many Americans.

Who is the one that is out of touch? While this is certainly on the minds of most people in the DC metropolitan area and has created a lot of anxiety here, I am sure this is not on the top of the list for the rest of America. I am not saying this to minimize the heinousness of this scumbag(s) crimes, but to point out that the threat that Sadam poses is far greater to America as a whole than a serial killer could ever be. This is something that completely escapes this pinhead Tom Friedman. All one has to do is look at today's headlines about the bombings in Bali to see the disparity in the two threats posed. I wonder if he could contemplate the result of a similar attack on US soil, possibly using biological or chemical agents. This illustrates, not only his shortsightedness, but his typical, inside the beltway mentality where the world revolves around Washington due to the self-importance of those that revolve around Washington politics.

I speak to people from around the country on a daily basis and while they are certainly aware of the sniper attacks here, their concern is for the safety of those that live here, they are not afraid that they are next. I was simply amazed at the recent poll that said that people are more afraid of the sniper(s) than they are of terrorism. I wonder if that was a poll of DC metro residents or the nation as a whole? If it was indeed the nation as a whole, then we are in big trouble.

He then goes on to promote his gun-control agenda. By using the term "weapons inspectors" for domestic gun control implies a massive state run firearms confiscation program. His ideas are not only naive and misguided, but extremely dangerous. I would prefer to take my chances with this sniper(s) than a Gestapo-like police force going door to door confiscating firearms. In fact, IMHO, this illustrates that the government is really incapable of protecting each of us, despite what this idiot "journalist" believes. This person will be caught (hopefully very soon), but not because of all the great profilers, etc. but because some aware citizen will see or hear something that will lead to his capture. Just another reason to never let that communist rag in my house - ever.

[Madame Dufarge]

Why doesn't Friedman just start wearing a dress?

Last Monday night my wife ordered pizza from the California Pizza Kitchen.

I'll bet the Friedmans have been having pizza delivered every night since the sniping started. Can't be too careful, you know. The delivery guy might get shot, but he's just a working-class stiff, so it wouldn't really count.

[Cobra64]

This guy is a jerk. If he did his homework, the moron would figure out that there are over 20,000 gun control laws on the books already.