[MissAmericanPie]

Panic? It might start payback all over the USofA.

[eastforker]

The victims IMHO were nothing more than targets of oppurtunity for the shooters.Think about how many times,driving around you see someone and no one else is around.Either terrorist or someone that wants the thrill to kill somebody without getting caught.Either way,I hope the cops figure it out pretty quick.

[kaylar]

My guess : The authorities are not releasing the race because the two men are of "middle eastern" appearance, and all decent, right thinking government bureaucrats and officials know that everybody outside their little social circle and alumni association is a rednecktrailertrashxenophobicneanderthal, who'll go out and murder anyone who looks vaguely "foreign" if they have an excuse. Sorta like those broadcasters who forced the "I'm an American!" public service announcements on us post 09/11 : They know all of us "out here" in flyover country are a bunch of trigger-happy morons, so they have to release heavy-handed, maudlin sermonettes over the airwaves to keep us from running amuck. Or to put it another way : Remember that utterly repulsive article from Paul Begala (sp?) in which he basically called all the people in the states that voted for Bush homophobic klan member psychoes. That's how a lot of the most influential, powerful people in the country think about people like us. Like that female thing in the WJC admin, who said (a little before OKC) that what made Vietnam so tragic was the unelite status of the common soldier-"farmboys from the south and the midwest", is how she put it. Elite contempt .

[Teacher317]

It might start payback all over the USofA.

I doubt it. I'm not any of us have the cojones for that kind of thing anymore. If 9-11, with dancing in the streets and support rallies in American cities won't do it, then a few sniper-shots sure as hell won't.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Panic? It might start payback all over the USofA.

Agreed. Panic, not. But a retribution, yes.