[RogueIsland]

I sincerely hope that the barf alert is rather strongly implied by the title.

[RogueIsland]

There is everything to like about Carolyn McCarthy.

One hardly needs to read past the first line, huh?

[God-fearer]

The next target of the sniper will be a pent-up conservative in line to get his gun after his waiting period is over.

[Renegade]

This article is so full of crap it makes me want to barf. Arm the citizens who qualify. There should be a NATIONAL permit to carry a concealed weapon. It would put a really big dent in the amount of crime committed in this country . Criminals will think more than twice if they want to commit a crime with a weapon.
The " bad" guys will always be able to gain access to firepower. they have nothing to lose by violating the stupid gun laws.

[muawiyah]

This ol'gal would have been better advised to eliminate commuter railroads - maybe get the West Side Highway built!

At the moment all the sacred sniper profiles have fallen by the wayside and the government is beginning to wake up to the fact that these snipers are part of a foreign military force.

No revision of any gunlaws could have stopped this.

No doubt Carolyn McCarthy voted yesterday to continue appeasing the terrorist dictatorship in Iraq.

Can we send her someplace where she can't hurt us anymore? Frankly, I don't trust her around the kids.

[lelio]

Its unofficial motto is “One shot, one kill.”
I think the author has been playing one too many Counter Strike games on the internet.

[LurkedLongEnough]

No need to be "snipy", lady.

[IronJack]

This makes it official. The gun-control vampire is back from his grave and prowling the countryside once again. I thought the liberals had learned the dangers of pushing their gun-hating agenda; in all probability it cost Al Gore the election. But no, their arrogance knows no death, and this specter will never sleep while fresh blood is available for the siphon.

Summon the garlic and the holy water. Break out the crucifixes and the wooden stakes. Once again, something evil stalks the night.

[John Lenin]

I think the media is focusing more on the fact that a gun was used and not enough on the victims.

[Puppage]

“Did he buy his gun at a gun show?”

I LOVE this...gun grabbing liberals sat that it's SOOO easy to get a gun at a gun show. I defy them to try! If it was so easy, don't you think one of these news magazine shows, ie Dateline, 20/20 & the like, would have an investigative report? Something like..."guns are so easy to get at these gun shows that we took our undercover cameras & purchased these 5 guns yesterday".

But they don't....WHY? Because it can't be done. That's why. Hey, liberal media..PUT UP or SHUT UP. I'm sick of it.

Okay, I feel better now. :)

[HiJinx]

“The accuracy, range and power of a sniper my elk rifle could present a grave danger if used by a determined criminal or a deranged gunman, and a serious threat to national security in the hands of a terrorist halfway decent marksman,” the report said.

[elbucko]

McCarthy wonders if this sniper has a history of mental illness.

Well Gee Lady, duh!

Every notorious shot since JFK's has been by an extremely disturbed individual. Since the formulation of the drug "Haldol", the crazies have been wonder down our main streets in various states of reality. When we come to terms with mental illness in this country, crank-up the mental hospital once again, we will all be safer.

This isn't a problem for the NRA, it's a problem for the NAP (Nat. Assn. Psychiatry).

[old school]

Before I start projectile vomitting, what the hell does this mean? "Military-style sniper rifles and ammunition..." Pardon me, but I do believe that snipers (military and police) have traditionally used rifles made for civilians by civilians; and you don't have to be a freakin' expert marksman to make a kill shot at a hundred yards. What's called for here is, for some real snipers (in Virginia and Maryland) to stalk this son-of-a-bitch and cash-in his chips with the quickness!

[primeval patriot]

The trend was documented in a 1999 report by the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control group.

It was, of course, ignored.

Excerpt:

The civilian sniper culture is fed by the gun industry, nurtured by a fawning gun press, and disseminated through an array of commercial media enterprises. Industry advertising, favorable gun press articles, books, motion pictures, videos, video games, posters, and even tee shirts promote the sniper mystique.

The subculture even has its own cult figure, the late Carlos Hathcock, who as a Marine sniper in Vietnam was credited with the longest confirmed kill in history. It defies experience to believe that this blizzard of violent fantasy will not effect the greater society.

Tom Diaz

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Tom Diaz is part of the sub-culture of liars who are trying to take away my guns.

[45Auto]

The only loophole these enemies of freedom are trying to close is the 2nd Amendment loophole. McCarthy is still full of sh*t. She and her ilk are going in the wrong direction. If you want to stop random shootings like the one that took her husband, then stop pushing legislation that produces "gun-free zones" also known as the killing fields.

Instead, why not a national effort to train young people about the utility of firearms and the real meaning of the 2nd and the Constitution. Responsibility, not BS. These morons are the handmaidens of tyranny; their stupid, assinine approach is like trying to stop people from sitting on the needle in the haystack.

There is no f-ing way that any more gun control BS is going to stop the occasional, random nut or the fanatic muslim/terorist from carrying out acts of violence/terrorism. The only way to afford some protection from these things is with a well-armed populace. It won't always work, but if 20% of the citzenry carry, then that will spell out a powerful deterrent to the vermin and scumbags that now prey on us at whim. Some of them will think twice before sliding up to the ATM customer and demanding money. There sure as hell won't be any more Long Island railroad killings, nor any kind of crime on any mass transit conveyance. I don't know how these people like McCarthy can be so stupid. The only other answer is that they have some other agenda in mind, once the country is disarmed.

[RLK]

Fifty years ago gun laws in this country were nearly nonexistent. You could buy rifles and even 20mm antitank rifles through magazine ads and over the phone. Yet we didn't see 1/20 of the lunatic violence seen today. I'd like to hear an explanation form Ms McCarthy as to why this is so.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

“Did he buy his gun at a gun show?” McCarthy asked of the sniper, who experts say is using high-velocity, military-style bullets designed to cause maximum damage to a target. “Did he go through one of the loopholes that we have been trying to close?”

And did she also vote to make all these people defenseless???

[dark_lord]

Even if the gun-grabbers repealed the 2nd amendment (never happen) and made owning a rifle a crime punished by the death penalty - crimes like this current terrorist would occur. Face it - if the guy (gal, guys, whatever) are captured, they are up for the death penalty unless they die in a shoot out with the cops anyway. He/she/they/it are DEAD DEAD DEAD. So any gun penalty laws are completely meaningless, but since the liberals only operate from their "feelings" rather than their nonexistent brains it is pointless to try to argue with them.

That said - giving everyone concealed carry for handguns, heck - requiring every US citizen over the age of 18 to be trained and to carry a handgun - would not have stopped or stop this terrorist, since this character shoots people in the back, from concealment, from a distance, with his/her getaway vehicle on hand.

[an amused spectator]

Marie 'Caca' Cocco is a raving lunatic lefty who worships at the altar of Bill Clinton's lap. She hates Republicans with a passion, and never misses a chance to bash a conservative. She is an oft-featured "writer" on the Smirking Chimp, a left-wing Free Republic wannabe.

[Tony in Hawaii]

The stupid dupe can't get it though her thick skull that if her husband and son had been ARMED, they may never have been injured or killed.

[Hot Tabasco]

“Did he buy his gun at a gun show?” McCarthy asked of the sniper, who experts say is using high-velocity, military-style bullets designed to cause maximum damage to a target. “Did he go through one of the loopholes that we have been trying to close?”

Probably not and Probaly not!

Got a bunch of dad's guns which are really sweet that certainly weren't purchased at gun shows.

Where is your darn "BARF ALERT"?