Another Interstate sniper on the loose

[gofaster]

Looks like we got a copy cat Interstate sniper on the loose, shooting up a school, cars, some buildings.  Killed one person so far.  Folks are nervous and the police don't have much to work with.

The shootings began in May along Interstate 270, the freeway that circles Columbus. Many were not reported until after Nov. 25, when 62-year-old Gail Knisley was killed by a bullet that pierced the side of a car driven by a friend.

At least four of the shootings — three at vehicles and one at the school last month — were from the same gun, Franklin County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said Tuesday. Although ballistics tests could not link the rest of the shootings along Interstate 270, investigators believe all 12 are connected, he said.

[beet1e]

Perhaps America needs more guns. Make a law requiring all drivers to be armed.

Don't you just love it - allow unrestricted issue of sniper type rifles and guess what? People actually get shot by them. Well there's a big freaking surprise.

[SOB]

You're right, if this person was in the UK and they wanted to get a sniper rifle there's no way they'd EVER be able to get their hands on one.

[LePaul]

Originally posted by SOB
You're right, if this person was in the UK and they wanted to get a sniper rifle there's no way they'd EVER be able to get their hands on one.

Well said....

[Curval]

Originally posted by beet1e
People actually get shot by them.

Only the people who actually DESERVE to be shot Beet1e...haven't you been reading all the "Armed Citizen" articles posted recently.

[miko2d]

The weapon used by the "Beltway Sniper" was not a sniper rifle.
 Any hunting rifle is a sniper rifle by definiction and we've had tens of millions of those - owned hunting rifles since the first settler set foot on american soil.

 12-year old children would bring their 22lr rifles to school in the 50s and go shoot rats on a landfill after classes. Before socialism creeped in - primarily from England - there were as many guns but much less gun violence.

 miko

[Curval]

Originally posted by miko2d
Before socialism creeped in - primarily from England - there were as many guns but much less gun violence.

 miko

OMG!  Do you honestly believe this?

LOL...and American's get all upset because they feel they are blamed for everything?   Now the ORIGINAL settlers of the United States..the British, are to blame for socialism creeping into the US?  Just when did this happen Miko?

[Mickey1992]

I'll let you know if I see any holes in my Honda.  I drive that part of 270 every morning.  

"Many were not reported until after Nov. 25"

That's not true.  All but two were reported the day they happened.  The problem is that the shootings were reported to three different agencies; State Troopers, County Deputies, and Columbus Cops.  No one make the link until the death (or no one cared).

[miko2d]

Curval: Do you honestly believe this?

 Which part. That there was less gun violence in US or that UK set on the path of socialism a few decades earlied than US did?

...and American's get all upset because they feel they are blamed for everything?

 I do not actually blame UK for any US woes. UK had perfect right to ruin itself by socialism and put very little pressure on US to do the same.
 If not from UK, the US socialists would have imported the state socialism directly from Germany where it originated under Bismark.

Just when did this happen Miko?

 Creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and monetary policies of the 1920s that ruined and socialised the US free-market monetary system and gold standard in order to stem the flow of gold from good old England? Untill the house of Rockefeller got the upper hand over the house of Rotschild in US politics, the US treasury was pretty much a puppet.

 Again, I do not blame England - nobody held a gun to americans' head. Just ecplaining the mechanism of what happening in impersonal way.
 BTW, the crime - including the gun violence - is on increase in England, despite clampdown on weapons ownership. For the same reasons it was increasing in US.

 miko

[Pfunk]

Originally posted by miko2d
Before socialism creeped in - primarily from England - there were as many guns but much less gun violence.

 miko

[SaburoS]

Well maybe we should have a death penalty in these types of shootings as we all know what a great deterent the death penalty is....... oh we do already....nevermind.

[Habu]

Lets hope that police use their experience to catch this guy quicker.

One thing England has that is worth copying is a network of cameras that basically record every public place and road all the time.

It was a response to the IRA attacks and an attempt to discourage and catch bombers. By filming every subway entrance and exit, every highway, every airport they could quite often go back after the fact and track suspects and place them in the locations.

Now there are so many cameras and with modern technology they have linked them all up that crimes are solved all the time using this system. Even when that poor kid was kidnapped and murdered by the two 12 year olds a few years back, the cameras caught the kids leading him away in the act. People who collapse due to heart attacks have been saved by camera operators seeing them and calling for help.

I am all for freedom and liberty but a system like this would make it much easier to identify and  catch car bombers and snipers and other terrorists. It would be hard to wire the whole US like this due to its size but major cities would be a good place to start.

[Fishu]

Miko2d,

back in the 50's many things were different than today, people had a much different mentality as well.

[SOB]

Originally posted by SaburoS
Well maybe we should have a death penalty in these types of shootings as we all know what a great deterent the death penalty is....... oh we do already....nevermind.

We don't have a death penalty.  We have a maybe death, but first a million appeals and probably end up dying of natrual causes penalty.

[SaburoS]

Even if we brought out a certain death penealty w/o appeals, these animals will still murder. They don't fear the punishment, they fear the getting caught part. They most always think they'll get away with the crime.