Sniper has D.C. feeling like the hunted - how antelope must feel at a watering hole on the Serengeti

The Dallas Morning News ^ | October 13, 2002 | By JIM MORRIS / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Imagine how these gas station employees must feel working there every day......

[MeekOneGOP]

Sniper has D.C. feeling like the hunted - how antelope
must feel at a watering hole on the Serengeti

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[guitfiddlist]

Sniper has D.C. feeling like the hunted - how antelope must feel at a watering hole on the Serengeti

Or moose. I wonder if people in the DC area are happy with the rampant affirmative action at their police departments.

[joesnuffy]

Yeah except the God given defense of antelopes is their speed and numbers...and antelope havent voted representative antelope that pass laws hobbling some antelope making them easier targets.

[cricket]

Personally think the media labeling this killer; the 'DC Sniper'. . .diminishes the real truth of this; while offering this killer a 'distinction' of sorts.

He is first and last a terrorist; just another person who has chosen the lowest of roads for his personal empowerment.

[cricket]

"Imagine how these gas station employees must feel working there every day......"

. . .actually had not thought of them at all; but yes, cannot be easy.

Do think about how it must be in the mind of every person, stopping for gasoline that this could happen, and yet feeling somewhat safe and confident that it would not happen to them and then. . .

[Prodigal Son]

Apt description. I've sat at waterholes in Africa and watched the various beasts approach for a drink. Wildebeasts, zebra, different antelopes. It's one of the most dangerous parts of their day. Sometimes they're so paranoid they just say "F--k it!" and don't drink at all.

[DWSUWF]

"...After hearing about Friday's killing in Virginia, Ms. Glazier promptly drove to a gas station near her home, reasoning that the sniper could not cover 30-plus miles so quickly.

"The first thing I thought ... was that I should go buy gas because he's not right here," Ms. Glazier said. "Which is horrible to say..."

Why is it 'horrible' to describe a field expedient method for reducing the odds of being shot by a sniper?

She has stumbled onto a reasonably good method for reducing the likelihood of being attacked, and she regards her reporting of it as a "...horrible thing to say...".

I'd bet the rent that she's a liberal, and that she's wracked with a mindless, free floating guilt about any number of advantages or lucky breaks that she enjoys.

Hey Glazier... If what you're doing prompts you to use a word like 'horrible' to describe it, you MUST stop doing it now. It's simply not fair for you to employ a method that puts you at a competitive advantage over others like this.

Pin a target on your blouse and stand somewhere very still in that urban hell-hole you live in, for as long as you can, every day.

Only in this way will you be able to take a first step toward purging yourself of the horrible horrible-ness of the unfair advantage you have stolen from the people.

[Mr. Bird]

I was also struck by her guilty-sounding statement. When I first read it, I thought to myself: "there's a smart woman", then read on and thought she was just another wishy washy loser....

[Uncle Meat]

With a half a mill pricetag on his/their head,you'd think he/they would be feeling like the antelope.I'd take a weeks vacation if I lived in DC and do me a little"hunting".I'd be setting up manequins for decoys and see if he/they take the bait.

[DWSUWF]

"...When I first read it, I thought to myself: "there's a smart woman", then read on and thought she was just another wishy washy loser..."

Exactly!

She's not content to be clever, or cunning enough to imitate someone else who is...

She has to run her village idiot's free-floating guilt up the flagpole for all to see.

She appears to be a classic example of the puerile weakness that has manifested itself in the human gene pool after we killed off all of the saber-toothed tigers and invented medicine... There are too many folks reaching adulthood that nature had tagged for culling in childhood.

[Ajnin]

One of the greatest assets this murdering puke has is the oblivion in which most humans live.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

Yep, "oblivion population" led to believe the police would protect you!!

WRONG. Police will just clean up the crime scene and perhaps capture the bad person (only 60%) of murders.

Want more good news? You cannot sue the police for failure to protect you.

Want even more good news?? Gun grabbers want the oblivion population to believe that taking all guns will protect them from the six million felons in jail who committed felony acts to get their.

When will the oblivion population wake up??

It is time anti-gun American citizens wake up to the fact they are responsible for their own self defense. If they want to be dumb and stupid and not provide self defense for their own protection that is fine with me. However, do not lecture me that I can not provide protection to my family or for my family members to protect themselves. This personal self defense with the support of police will give America the strongest defense against criminals.



Regarding the Maryland scumbag here are the facts.


The only thing this scumbag needs is to be six feet under. A coward title is too good.

This killer is not a sniper, not a marksman, not a expert, not a valuable citizen of the United States, not worthy of all the media attention give by the blood and guts media hype and thirst thrown at us by the media.

If you want the terror to stop in your life, turn off the talking TV heads; turn off the liberal media blood and guts 24-hour hype.

This morning on CNN interview with the Montgomery sheriff he stated than he appreciated the flattery given that policeman will protect the public. But he stated police seldom prevent crime. This was in response to police inept ability to stop the last shooting when a police officer was apparently within 50 yards of the shooting.

When the American public wakes up to the fact that that Law Enforcement cannot protect you. It is up to YOU the American citizen to protect yourself, your family and your loved ones. I hope and pray that some citizen will see or actually stop this scumbag in his tracks.

Unfortunately in Maryland, citizens are disarmed by government and are at the mercy of bad people. 25,000 gun laws are not stopping this scumbag. 80 million gun owners with 240 million firearms are praying this scumbag is nailed. Most all of them would pay the privilege to be excitation. I would bet that 75% of the anti gunners would pull the trap door on this scumbag as well.

It is time to get a life. Our hearts go out to all the victims and their extended families.

So the medias characterization this scumbag is a sniper is just media hype to sell airtime.

[MeekOneGOP]

. . .actually had not thought of them at all; but yes, cannot be easy.

Do think about how it must be in the mind of every person, stopping for gasoline that this could happen, and yet feeling somewhat safe and confident that it would not happen to them and then. . .

I have a friend (Mike) who dropped his pooch off at my place Friday night and he and his wife and daughter were heading out for Virginia for a 4 day trip. We talked about this nutcase. Mike said that they would rent a car and make sure it's filled up at the airport and they weren't going to be driving more than the ~300 miles that would take them. He was gonna pay the high cost at the airport for them to fill it up when he drops the car off. I guess with a wife and daughter I couldn't blame him. But they rake you over the coals at airports for gas fillups, don't they? (Main point being, this has gotta be on everyone's mind in the Beltway area).

[Alamo-Girl]

It sounds to me that was the intended reaction (feeling hunted.)

[Guenevere]

I disagree with you.

I would feel the same way as this lady......

..that, by saying this, she was admitting to taking advantage of someone else's misfortune.

We all are totally unprepared to deal with this kind of situation & don't know, until it happens, what we will think or how we will react.

Cut her some slack, OK.

And I would appreciate NOT getting flamed for my opinion in support of her statement.

[MeekOneGOP]

It sounds to me that was the intended reaction (feeling hunted.)

Yep. When I read the article, and read that sentence about the antelope, that struck me in a big way, too. That's why I picked it for the subtitle. Pretty scary.....

[DWSUWF]

"...I disagree with you..."

Yes...

Based on the sentiments you've expressed, I think it's accurate to say that we probably disagree with each other right down to the molecular level.

”…We all are totally unprepared to deal with this kind of situation & don't know, until it happens, what we will think or how we will react…”

You need to learn to speak for yourself. There are those for whom this statement, and the wind-blown philosophy it represents, is antithetical to their way of life.

”…Cut her some slack, OK…”

This remark convinces me that you aren’t even close to getting the point. Have yourself a great day.

[Guenevere]

You're right......"I" need to speak for myself.

"I"....would probably do exactly what this lady is doing, and thinking the killer is in the next county, run my errand, get my groceries or gas or whatever.

But if someone interviewed "ME", "I" would voice a tiny bit of regret that life had taken such a turn and "I" had to resort to this kind of subterfuge.

"I" am probably more prepared than you seem to give me credit for----although "I" still think it would be difficult to absolutely know how "I" would react in such an emergency.

There....is that better.

[DWSUWF]

"...There....is that better..."

Yes it is.

You would share this potentially life saving tactic with your family members and friends though...

Right?