A Sniper is Terrorizing the US

[emprworm]

I know I have many friends in here from around the world, so I'll fill you in. A bizzare thing is happening in the US. A stealth sniper has been picking off people since last week in the middle of towns and suburbs near Washington D.C. He is extremely accurate. All of his victims are 1 shot hits. 10 shots fired. 10 people hit. 7 people killed. He hasn't missed a single shot. He is killing about 1 person every 1-2 days. The entire Washington D.C area is in a panic because he strikes in broad daylight. He shoots his victims from a very long distance- perhaps 50 meters or more! He fires once, then vanishes. No evidence, except for one tarot card of the Grim Reaper left at one of the shootings that had a message scribbled on it "Dear policeman, I am God."

He has shot old people and even children. yes, he shot a 13 year old boy in the chest. It is unbelievable how anyone could do this. It is panic. A sniper is on the loose and with each day, he gets a new victim. Very demoralizing.

I hope they find this maniac.

[Dante]

Yes, for some reason here in Scotland (Draconis IV) we get the story update nearly every night.

What surprises ME is that random killers are so rare... Considering how many people there are on the planet and how many of them have volitile tempers or are a bit nuts... You'd think this kind of thing would happen more often.

[Mahdi]

It takes a lot tomake a serial killer. They recently brought in a CanadianProfilier to help with the case. Adn that tarot card, the kiler specifically requested that it NOT be shown to the media.

[Anathema]

Pretty old news. I doubt they catch him.

[Dude_Doc]

Or the murderer want's to say something. On the other hand, he could be another pshcyco, shooting children! Children!!!! I don't care if he's trying to say something or show them how "good he is", if you shoot children, you ARE SICK!!! I hope this murderer dies a slow, painful death, and goes to hell for the rest of eternity.... .

[gryphon]

It's not ment as an "insult" or sutch. But he is not terrorizing the US. Just the Washington area. And although that's bad enough. It's hardly the entire country.

But still it is horrible enough.

When I heard the new a few days ago I had to think of a schoolboy in a country somewhere in Eastern Europe. He had a argument with a fellow student that you don't get killed for no reason at all. So the student got his fathers gun and killed him. Just to show you can get killed for no reason.

[ Sadly you can say he failed in that. but that's another topic. ]

Not ment as a totall loss of faith is sociaty. But after the assasination of Pim Fortuyn my ideas where radically changed so to speak. The events that happen are horrible. But then, there is a verry horrible side to humanity. To our civelesation. And so, ones in a while, things like this happen.

There are no words for it. No things can be said to make it right. But still it happends. And we have to deal with it as best as we can.

[Dante]

Or the murderer want's to say something. On the other hand, he could be another pshcyco, shooting children! Children!!!! I don't care if he's trying to say something or show them how "good he is", if you shoot children, you ARE SICK!!! I hope this murderer dies a slow, painful death, and goes to hell for the rest of eternity.... .

Isn't that a bit harsh? Killing is awful anyway, why make it worse if the victim is a child?

[Anathema]

"Fim" Fortuyn :)?

Did you support him?

[emprworm]

i was hoping that when he is caught we could ask England to re-open the Tower of London for a couple weeks.

[Anathema]

Why? Just to lock him up, or did they also do torture in the Tower ;D?

[katnip03]

I agree. Why is it worse to kill a child than an adult...who could be someone's mother or father. Why do people freak out way more when it is a child??? It is sad whoever it is.

[Dante]

I agree. Why is it worse to kill a child than an adult...who could be someone's mother or father. Why do people freak out way more when it is a child??? It is sad whoever it is.

Exactly. And who is/was "Fim" Fortuyn?

Yay! Reopen the Tower! Great idea!

[Anathema]

Agree wiht who? Killing a child would require a more sick person then it would to kill an adult.

[emprworm]

it is not criminally worse to kill a child, but it represents the ultimate in human depravity since a child does not hate. a child is without strength. and a child is innocent.

[katnip03]

why? why is it worse to kill a kid than an adult? we are all human, regardless of age. I am not saying it isn't sad, and that the guy deserves the worst punishment that can be given, but it is just as sad for the kids who's parents or grandparents have been killed as it would be for the parents of the kids that have been.

[gryphon]

Yes, I did [ and in a way probably still do ] support Pim Fortuyn. I really liked what he did to our political system, and his critisism on it.

But then I don't find myself in the LPF. The are just a bounch of **#&$*.

But back on topic. Has any one opperd the idea that this could be a "terrorist" plot ?

[ I know, I'm getting way to much in this terrorist thing, but still .... ]

[katnip03]

children are not all innocent. There are ten year olds with guns too. I am just saying, that it is equal. Children can hate just as much as adults can. I have witnessed it.

[Terror]

yeah i agree on that, even though kids only had a short life and probably had a long time to go, some people just don't seem to deserve it. ofcourse if you meet them like 20 years later they are usually pretty nice but still

[Dante]

it is not criminally worse to kill a child, but it represents the ultimate in human depravity since a child does not hate. a child is without strength. and a child is innocent.

Children hate, children are rarely innocent, they just lack the comprehension and intelligence to put it into words. And having no strength just makes it easier. You know it used to be as acceptable to have a catamite (boy) as it was to have a concubine?

[Anathema]

I would find it way more difficult to kill a child then an adult- wouldn't you?

[katnip03]

For the fact that there are 8 year old boys who burn their pets and shoot their friends, I find it hard to believe that most children are innocent.

[katnip03]

Well I don't think I could personally kill anyone, but no, it depends on the circumstance. Personally I think noone deserves to be killed except for those who have killed others. It makes no difference to me whether it be a child or an adult.

[gryphon]

since a child does not hate. a child is without strength. and a child is innocent.

That's a false assumption. A child hates. And mayby as contradiction to an adult who can understand his hate and grow over it. A child generally does not have that abilety.

Strength can be messured by mass to. The children have the future, and that's more strength then any adult persone will ever have.

And a child is hardly innocent. He mayby isn't fully aware of the implications of his actions. But doesn't have to be innocent.

Killing a child, woman, man elderly should not matter. I think that assumption is a form of discrimination. Any form / action where a life is been taken is equally wrong. There is no gradual differance in importance in my opinion between one persones live, and anothers.

[pointybum]

One has to remember that who ever is doing this deed has a mind that has been cultivated by the society close to him, be it from early days as a child to recent as an adult.

The random killings are a deliberation to dull the trail scents, making the task for all those in catching him much, much harder. It's also to fan mass hysteria and worldwide fame - the killing of children exemplifies the killers hatred of himself as much as everybody else around him. Statistically, serial killers take their own lives before being caught, leaving a gaping hole to the pointlessness of it all.

However, each bullet has a signature which can be traced, eventually, back to the manufacturer or store. It will only be a matter of time before he is caught.

Bless you all that live in that area.

[emprworm]

That's a false assumption. A child hates. And mayby as contradiction to an adult who can understand his hate and grow over it. A child generally does not have that abilety.

Strength can be messured by mass to. The children have the future, and that's more strength then any adult persone will ever have.

And a child is hardly innocent. He mayby isn't fully aware of the implications of his actions. But doesn't have to be innocent.

a child may hate, indeed. but not like an adult hates. children to not know any better. a child, like an elderly woman, is a symbol- a symbol of one who is weaker and fragile. One who needs help to make it in life. Killing mercilessly a child or an elderly person (or say, a handicapped man in a wheelchair, or a mother holding her baby) are not less criminal than killing an adult man angirly protesting his government, but it is far more reprehensible to the killer because he is targeting the weakest, most helpless people of society. I am stunned that many of you so-called 'socialists' do not see this. Aren't you for defending the weak? A child is not just a human target, but a symbolic target as well.

But i think you all know this and are just making pointless argument.