Beltway Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary-Tuesday, Oct. 15

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[dmz]

Political Correctness has got to stop or more innocent people are going to be killed.
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political correctness doesn't kill people, people kill people.

for some reason this phrase sounds vaguely familiar

[Dog]

Was his name by chance Cosmo Kramer???

[Solson]

Why not use Satellites to track? Seems like they're grasping at straws....

[vollmond]

With a 50/50 split, the chances are 0.78%, or just under 1 percent. If you consider an 85/15 white/black population distribution, the chances drop to 0.18%. So in a blind test, you're four times more likely to get a coin to alternate between heads and tails seven straight times, then you are to get W/B/W/B/W/B/W. It's not a statistical impossibilty, however. It's just roughly a 1 in 500 chance.

Actually, it's twice as likely for this to happen than to have 911 coming up in pick 3 in New York on 9/11. (Unless there were two drawings that day.)

[Kip Lange]

The thing that stood out to me was the term he used first -- group. The only group I know of that might suffer some hardship is the very same group that suffered after 9/11.

He's a moose caught in the headlights now.

[Kip Lange]

Can we defrost Detective Joe Friday for this case? Please? (grin)

Ya stole my joke! :-) Hehe.

[KsSunflower]

I agree...I just love to hear Mark Furman comment on the investigation!

[valleygal]

"Get a freaking grip...how many people died on the beltway yesterday. (Post 97)

Respectfully, I understand what you ar trying to say, but you are being very unfair. Car accidents are just that...accidents. This is deliberate. Just because the odds are low doesn't mean it can't happen.

A psychologist on Fox this morning said that the officials statements telling everyone to "just live their lives" is in his exact words, "BULLCRAP".

BTW, I've had two friends die several years apart after being struck by lightening. Odds on that are astronomical. Odds mean little to those of us who live or have family there.

Flame away, I don't care.

[aristeides]

Yeah, I distinctly got the impression listening to those words from Moose that he's protecting Middle Easterners.

[livius]

LOL! No, but I guess there had to be a real-life model for him, right?

[Kip Lange]

Why not use Satellites to track? Seems like they're grasping at straws....

"Seems"? :-)

[Letitring]

LOL.:)

[aristeides]

Percentage of the population that's black in MD and VA is much higher than that. It's not all that unlikely that a randomly chosen group would be half black. What's really unlikely is the alternation.

[Kip Lange]

I sure as heck wouldn't flame you...I know I'm glad I'm not in that area, right now. It's plain freaky stuff. Straight out of a bad novel you read to pass the time on a plane or something.

[Robe]

We Gotta deal with the mosques in the community, I fear they are nothing more than armed safe houses in our backyard.
Islam is not a religion, it is a ideology based on world domination masquerading as a religion.
No other religion requires total submission or death.
Islam does.!

Sooner that is understood the better we will be

[Elenya]

I also think the Predator can "see" at night, into buildings, and through your clothes. It's awesome technology.

Sheesh! I guess it makes sense to use them to catch a "serial killer"... < /sarcasm>

Had to step out for a while. Any new development?

[freeperfromnj]

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020701-1056999.htm

[Letitring]

I asked a LE type why the killer shot the woman instead of the man and he said it was because the Lady made the best target. When I picked my jaw off the ground, I realized it's probably true.

[Eroteme]

Am I the only one detecting the subtle shift in the tone of the media's questions?

I saw it too. I wouldn't even say the shift was subtle. Inching toward hostile. Especially when Moose was up to bat.

IMHO, the questioners' tone was not so much due to lack of answers. Reporters are accustomed to being stonewalled. And they'll accept that when there's good reason. They'll defer to competence.

I think there's genuine alarm over the competence of this "committee," whose spokesperson invites speculation about what the spawn of a menage a trois between Joe Lockhart, Cynthia McKinney and Norm Crosby would sound like.

[Quilla]

I thought that, too. I think he was walking around that area. It must be a rifle that can be taken apart quickly into smaller components.

My husband takes a .223 Thompson Contender with him when he hunts turkey. It's a relatively long pistol, but he can easily conceal it in a holster under a jacket. The gun has a scope, probably sighted in at 200 yards, that places a red dot on the target (btw, no scopes allowed turkey hunting ). An weapon of this time would be easy to conceal and the killer, as you speculate, could simply walk away.