[Grampa Dave]

This is interesting that the Secret Service would be called in for this.

Has there been anything in our left wing fishwraps about this?

[Grampa Dave]

FYI

You guys ever remember the Secret Service guys getting called out on a so called community crime?

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

THE hunt for a sniper whose killing spree has been terrifying Washington was stepped up yesterday, with members of the Secret Service who normally protect the President and foreign embassies sent to guard schools and highways.

By the Presidents orders I"M SURE!!!

This President is decent and absolutely amazing.

God Bless him.. he is facing the hardest time in our Nations history. Yet he has love and compassion for our nations children who are being terrorized. President Bush is an amazing man. Wow..

[Grampa Dave]

Good evening John.

You might be interested in this story re the sniper in the DC area.

[CyberAnt]

With the close location of the WH, I am not at all surprised. In fact, I would have thought they would have already been involved.

This type of criminal, the sniper, is the most dangerous to the President; especially somebody with a high powered rifle. The SS's training will be very helpful for this type of investigation.

[OldFriend]

Hopefully this will give the President a chance to be involved in choosing his next set of secret service agents.

[leadhead]

with members of the Secret Service who normally protect the President and foreign embassies sent to guard schools and highways

Reid again demonstrates he doesn't know soft s**t from apple butter. The UNIFORMED Secret Service is helping out. They do not guard the President. They handle the other Executive Branch guard duties from embassies, Cabinet members, Visitors, etc.Just another of the twenty or so guard/police units that operate in DC.

[.30Carbine]

“September 11 opened our eyes to let us know that we’re vulnerable to a terrorist attack, but this random shooting, you can’t describe it,” Donzell Cockrell, a Washington postman, said. “Here, we can’t say what this guy’s purpose is.”

That local mailman has every reason to fear for his life. Mailmen are not allowed to carry handguns for self-defense; only pepper spray, which, last I checked, has a range of approximately 2-3 feet. This infuriates me.

I haven't seen anyone post information on laws that restrict our God-given right to self-defense in the D.C. and Maryland areas, so I looked them up:

LINK: Carrying a handgun in the District is prohibited. All firearms are to be kept at one's home or place of business.

LINK:Application for a permit to carry a handgun [in Maryland] is made to the Secretary of State Police....The Secretary may in his discretion add restrictions to the permit limiting the location, circumstances or time at which the handgun may be carried.

I respectfully submit that without these encroachments upon our God-given right to defend ourselves, our families, and our neighbors, someone could have taken this murdering SOB down by now. And the mailman is in a prime position to accomplish that task - he or she is on the street and familiar enough with his or her delivery neighborhood to be aware of strangers and strange vehicles.

We have security guards at the Federal Building in Montpelier since the OKC bombing. Only after September 11, 2001 was *one* of them *allowed* to be armed. It is positively ridiculous, IMO.

[4Freedom]

Election year?

[andy_card]

This is interesting that the Secret Service would be called in for this.

It depends on which branch. The uniformed division of the Secret Service are really nothing but rent-a-cops. They could "guard" schools, highways, etc., because that's really all they're good for. The anti-counterfeiting folks and the security details aren't going to waste their time chasing a wacko serial killer, as long as he isn't trying to kill Bush.

[ET(end tyranny)]

From article at wusa site:

According to a history of Tarot cards, 'The Death Skeleton' comes to all: child, father, mother, king and priest.'

The shooter has killed men, women, severely injured a child.

Been shootings in Prince George county. Could President be taken for King...

Perhaps another reason for SS.

[Mixer]

Could this have been deployed perhaps if a threat was made on the presidents life. I was just wondering.

[concerned about politics]

Maybe he lost his job and he hasn't told his family. He feels all is lost because the marraige sucked and there's no chance it will survive if his wife finds out he's unemployed - again. So, he pretends to go to work during the week, and stays home on weekends as though everything is normal.
*sigh* I wish I were psychic.

[discipler]

Thanks for the post. A close friend of mine is one of the President's elite Secret Service sniper's. God be with him.

[Peach]

This is an excellent post. Thanks, Grampa Dave.

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