Posted on 10/14/2002 7:00:03 PM PDT by xjcsa
CNN Headline News is reporting that a woman has been shot near a Home Depot in Falls Church, VA, and that authorities are investigating whether this is another sniper attack.
Breaking now....
I have no doubt reporters will become a target, especially if these are terrorists......as I said, the jury's still out with me but it may not take much longer to make me fall onto the "terrorist" side of the fence, rather than wondering if it's a psycho.....which I'm really beginning to doubt.
Agreed. Corbon makes a nice load as well. I think it was a fmj in the incident I mentioned. I read an article once (don't remember where) that stated that there was no observavble difference in the wounds of different bullets when they were round noses. Just a neat little hole all they way through that couldn't be identified by caliber if the bullet wasn't found.
keep your chin up ...
As do I and many of us.
I doubt I'm the only one that has figured that out.
I've had a concern for awhile that the assassin could be lurking as well. What better place to read the theories of intelligent people (mostly) who know about guns? And maybe pick up an idea or two?
This perp follows news and selects locations carefully. I have feared all along that he/she may be lurking here. I personally think we should be very careful what we say.
It would be even more of a mistake for the police to assume it was islamics and concentrate their investigations there only to turn out wrong. If we don't have any evidence to point to islamics (and no one knows exactly what the police have, maybe no more than us) concentrating too much investigative resources there may well overlook the real killer elsewhere. At this point we can't assume anything. Personally, I'm leaning away from the islamic terrorist thing. Probably some nutcase. Maybe an ex-cop, or a disgruntled ex-stockbroker. Everyone's suspect now.
Liberals. That's why they concentrate on environmental factors to try to correct the evils of society. They believe man is good and his circumstances (guns, poverty, etc.) make him bad. There is no solution there.
As soon as the Sheriff's office for Falls Church meets the demands of the team, the killings will stop, I think..
A sheriff's office in VA killed a 23-yo guy last month over a joint's worth of marijuana.
(I am not a culprit in anything, anywhere. I'm changing my handle right away.)
As for the weapon itself, I'll go against the law-enforcement grain and guess that it's a scoped bolt-action rifle.
A bolt-action would also make it far easier to enforce the one-shot discipline that Route66 outlined. The thing that would mitigate against a bolt-action is if there were more than just the one casing that was found with the tarot card (like you said, if the shooter were disciplined enough to not take a second shot, he'd also be disciplined enough to not eject the casing).
I'm not saying it's al Qaeda; just that people should be open to the possibility, since it just *could*, given a number of coincidental factors. So it just shouldn't freak people out (any more than they're ALREADY freaked) if it's a guy with an al Qaeda manual (because if this IS a terrorist op, it's a low-budget, low-manpower one -- other al Qaeda attacks have consistently been "bigger"). Suspicious, of course, but I keep holding on to Heinlein's razor -- probabilities ALWAYS stack towards it being some whackjob (daddy didn't love me so I hunt people and hang their pelvises on my door). Mostly saying, don't jump to the conclusion it IS, and don't jump to the conclusion it ISN'T, until we get some hard evidence -- and it looks like the cops may finally have some to work with (*maybe*, it's all still very odd).
--KL
You do know I was agreeing and realized (or thought I did) that the last part was venting. I totally know how you feel.
As for whether or not we would put up with it, I just don't know. I see us accepting a lot of things that we should not. It worries me that before we wake up to the realities, it might be too late.
The problem is, at least to me, we are beset by so many dangers here. As far as defense, the ME threat is the worst, but we just have no idea how many are here, how many are coming in each day, how many weapons they have (and what kind).
The police seem to be doing all they can in this situation, but just think if cells in each state started this, we could be paralyzed. Of course, just speculating, the killer may not even be ME. But what it should teach all of us, including and especially our leaders, is just what a few people could do to this country. When will we wake up.
A friend of my daugher teaches the gun classes for Texas - I think it is time to sign up.
Well, you would have thought that after 11 or 12 shootings, the killers would somehow have managed to hit someone of the moslem persuasion, considering the fact that as some have pointed out, there's a large ME population in that area now...
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