Spotsylvania County is gun totin' country. Manassas is a bastion of good ol' boy types who favor guns, too. Virginia allows concealed carry permits. So there's two murders and one wounding in places that permit the people to carry much more than binoculars, and it didn't do any good at all. I'm not saying anything against those who are pro-gun (I am neutral, for the most part, on the gun issue), but I really don't think that a well-armed citizenry would be able to do a whole lot in these particular instances. Considering a (presumably armed) state trooper wasn't able to do anything this a.m., and the fact that there's a likelihood that 25-50% of the people around in the Fredericksburg and Manassas areas at the time of the shootings were carrying concealed weapons...
Well, I just don't think that everyone having guns would do a whole lot of good in this case. May well help in other situations, but I don't believe it would in the sniper cases.