hate to tell you but this has affected the whole country....
I will go to my grave saying that I feel safer around men that hunt and know how to use guns....
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.
"Marrhaba! Shughlak Taman! I am a terrorist. This is me training in a tape the filthy keffirs obtained, showing our one-shot, one-kill urban tactics in an alQaeda camp in Afghanistan near Khost. (Yeah, you smacked us good in 1998 under your Clinton for our attack on your 'Cole', but we are still standing).
Note, infidels, my eagle eye and steady arm even though the vehicle is moving. Teamwork. Timing. It's all in the teamwork and timing. And, of course, the skillful getaway, too.
But please do not profile because that might be what you unbelieving dogs call 'politically incorrect' and may bring about our capture even more quickly, thus resulting in fewer deaths. Please sandbag information from the general public because you are willing to give up a few more infidel whites and blacks and hispanics and female and men and little schoolboys to murder than suffer the inconvenience of some anti-Islam graffiti on mosques and other anti-diversity 'hate crimes', in the DC area. Kowayes, Allahu Ahkbar"
/sarcastic parody