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To: HairOfTheDog
This is exactly the kind of crime that will take our guns away, because it isn't just the bad risk-taking people getting killed this time, it is anyone. If our 2A spokespeople (and we are in public now, so we count) are smart we would be out giving as much helpful information to the FBI and the media as we can. I for one wish them the best of luck in catching him/them quick, before they do any more damage... I think this is a weird time for us to get all kooky and paranoid. If we don't look like we want this guy caught, then who are we?

As do I. But the way for that is for sherrif, or police, to call out the posse, the same folks who constitute the militia. Put a trained and practiced shooter on the roof of shopping malls and other likely targets. Put a cop, although you might have to settle for a reserve officer or even a National Guardsman in some cases. That's the way these guys will be caught, it's also what the Israelies do, they've also taken to arming kids too young to be called into military service, and letting them man checkpoints. Such an action would also cut down on "normal crime too of course, whereas using only police will divert them from investigating or responding to such more normal crimes and probably lead to an increase in such crimes.

However in these oh so "sensitive" times, using armed civilians is the last thing those in government, at all levels, are likely to do, at least in the oh so sohpisticated area around DC. If it were out here in fly over country, especially outside the major urban areas, there would already be posses out beating the bushes and defending the vulnerable places.

28 posted on 10/05/2002 4:56:10 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato
Isreal is 15 miles wide in places, isn't it? Without a lot of distinction between police and army duties.

This is such a big country (Millions of places to put snipers on rooftops) and these guys can show up anywhere and shoot from hundreds of yards away... I am armed, but I feel pretty helpless against that.

One of these guys buddies, girlfriends or wives know who this is... Somebody talked about doing this over beers last weekend. I think that is our best shot.
31 posted on 10/05/2002 5:07:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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