<font color=skyblue>Have any of you been following this or have any been affected by it?
I read this morning that a seventh person has been sniped. A middle-school kid, being dropped off a few minutes after 8 am this morning. This has caused the schools to not do any outside activites, and all things associated with being outside in the entire school district starting today.

For those of you that do not know...a supposed sniper has been going around killing people for sport. It is believed that he is the passenger in a white minivan with black lettering. No leads have been successful, and this guy is still driving around, picking people off. A man in fueling his car at a gas station, a woman placing groceries in her car, and many more...now a kid. The police are wondering though if this last shooting might be a copy-cat crime...or a crime commited by a separate individual using the fame of the origional to hide behind.</font>

There was a seperate thread on this. But yeah, I heard about the kid this afternoon.

Yeah i have seen it on the news and have read some about it in the news paper. It makes me sick to think that someone is just running around shooting people for their own joy. I don't understand why but you never can with people that do stuff like this. The scary thing is that he has no problem with killing anyone if he can shoot a kid like that.

I'll refrain from introducing anti-gun propaganda into to this debate. ;)
But it's terrible something like this happens, of course... :(

With all the press this incident has gotten I am surprised there havn't been more copy-cats. The people doing this are very sick.

By saying this you ARE introducing anti-gun propaganda. Why say it at all?

What scares me is it was in the neighborhood I was living in - off Randolph Road. Dang it. Guess I left before everything went to pieces over there.

The whole thing scares me. It was a good place to live.

This guy ,whoever he is, is a sociopath. Having a gun or not would not stop him from preying on people. Just like having a million and one laws on the books that try to prevent these kinds of tragedies won't stop them. Bad things do happen to good people. The best that we can hope for is that law enforcement can find this yahoo quickly enough before he targets someone else. Like it or not, the law is reactionary, not proactionary. Make it proactionary, and the floodgates to abuse are left wide open.

This guy ,whoever he is, is a sociopath. Having a gun or not would not stop him from preying on people. Just like having a million and one laws on the books that try to prevent these kinds of tragedies won't stop them. Bad things do happen to good people. The best that we can hope for is that law enforcement can find this yahoo quickly enough before he targets someone else. Like it or not, the law is reactionary, not proactionary. Make it proactionary, and the floodgates to abuse are left wide open.</font>[/QUOTE]Well, so much for not introducing the gun debate. Does that mean you can't outlaw something if it is considered a social ill? What about drugs?? A proactionary law (outlawing something seen as a social ill BEFORE it can be put to ill use) abounds in the law. Sorry, but if the government can tell you you must wear a seatbelt, it can certainly tell you you can't own a gun. (Note - I'm NOT saying it *should*, just that it *can* and *does* and it is not seen as abuse).

By saying this you ARE introducing anti-gun propaganda. Why say it at all?</font>[/QUOTE]*quickly puts his secret agenda away*
Oh, no particular reason... ;)