Posted on 10/22/2002 3:17:53 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I wouldn't bet on it. Any time Americans get a wake up alarm, they just hit the snooze button.
Yes, slightly. About a minute a day. Going up in the A.M. and down in the P.M. See the site I link to below.
Note that the last Sunday of October starts daylight savings time so the times start to offset back one hour on the 27th. ALSO NOTE, that one of the earlier shootings occurred right at one of the evening prayer times. BUT afternoon and evening prayers can be COMBINED. This is permitted. Especially if the Muslim is "traveling".
Go here.
Enter city ="Washington"
Enter Country ="USA",
You will get a list, click on #4 (Washington, DC - 38.9 N, 77 W). This will give you the prayer times.
About a week ago, a freeper calculated all sorts of distances for morning shootings and concluded that the sniper(s) is operating out of the Holy Cross Hospital area. I don't remember the exact argument but it made sense to me.
I don't think it will have much effect. Especially not in DC,where only Dims will win anyhow. Does DC even have any Republican or non-Dim candidates running?
One boy answered that he would like to see gun purchases restricted to those who had a license to buy guns.
I can see this going either way. That kid obviously came from a gun-grabber house,so his reaction can be expected. It could be that people from homes where there were no real strong opinions on gun control before could suddenly come out as rabid opponets of gun control. Face it,a lot of people who don't know any better actually believe that crap that any 12 year old can walk into a hardware store and buy a machine gun. Imagine their surprise when they decide to go down to the local Wal-Mart to buy a shotgun for protection,and find out there is a waiting period,background check,and maybe even a "Firearms Owner ID" involved.
I have changed back from terrorist, to nut job thinking along these lines. I think this guy is a hard boiled fiction fan, not a foreign nut, or a military, or right wing type.
Cat and mouse games. Ransom demands with voice scrambler, playing around with the cops, killing an FBI agent... this is a game. I bet once this person is found, you will find their house full of books by Cornwell, Deaver, Patterson, and Kellerman. This guy is a nut who thinks (maybe rightly so), that he is as smart as the killers in all his favorite police procedural novels, and is doing this as his great statement to the world, that he isn't a bookish, dateless, friendless nerd, but that he is important.
I could be wrong. For over a week, I thought terrorist, but now with the risky behaviour, ransom, calling cards, taunting notes, voice changer, etc... it does sound to me like a person playing out crime novels for real.
Just checked your profile - I knew you couldn't be from the South.
Swell idea. Just like the ones in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Teexas, I presume?
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
-archy-/-
That's exactly what I was trying to tell the guy I responded to. His was a more basic statement than most. It appears as though perhaps he wasn't following the case until recently.
But, we'll see. Right now, no one on this board knows one iota more than I do. And that's next to nothing.
Looks like you have some excellent answers already. No need for me to add anything.
Think maybe the note told Moose,"Dog,I want fiddy-fi million to stop busting caps."?
Imagine MY surprise when I went to buy a gun at WalMart (a Remington 12-gauge) & they told me that they would automatically send all my information to the Virginia State Police in Richmond, in addition to the background check. This is not required under Virginia law, Walmart just voluntarily registers your gun anyway. I didn't buy it.
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