[vyper]

I hate to seem detached but allow me to focus on one point: He killed them with one shot.

Well, hey, I could do that at close range!

I'd profile him as an average worker, perhaps under stress from marital or work issues, who has slowly been getting more and more violent to the point its no longer committed rationally.

Hope he gets caught soon anyway.

[heretic]

ah hell, this was across from where my wife is working, and about a mile away from where we live

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/102002/10042002/1033766708

[Stryke 9]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
it's been a long time since i've seen that much cheap sentiment from a reporter.
 

Does roughly a year qualify as "a long time"?

[Blue Lion]

A year? I see that cheap sentiment all the time on the news

[Knight Templar]

Yes a year is awhile, but most of the reports where actually emotional about that.. especially the ones from the east coast. I mean like "This morning in the news, a lady's sister was raped by her own cuzin, "all the members of our network send our condolensces and we hope you can abort the twins" " kinda of sentiment

[Corsair]

Yeah, I heard about that Montgomery shooting thing yesterday. I was in DC, and we were supposed to go on a tour with a schoolgroup from that area. Nothing doing, they were locked down in their classrooms. Scary stuff.

[Mr Carrot]

they seem completely bemused by the fact hes using a rifle and shooting people from long distance so that its no obvious where he is.

They seem to be too used to some silly crack dealing niny holding his gun "gangsta" who has to shoot a couple of hundred rounds from pointblank to hit the broad side of a barn.

[Stryke 9]

Actually, they're more interested in the fact that he got away with killing five people for no real reason in a day or so. Hell, we've all had one of those days, I don't see what the suprise is.

[CP5670]

I think the unusual thing in this case is that it was five people in different locations.

But if the guy merely wanted maximum kills, he could have just gone into a crowded mall or something and blasted away, which would have gotten a couple hundred; not sure why he did this...

[Stryke 9]

More interesting to him? I mean, really. It's a turkey shoot as opposed to stalking and killing- no contest, if you're a psycho.

[CP5670]

lol, I guess it could be put that way...

[Mr Carrot]

He wants to kill some people and not die or get caught himself. Its like a sensible person with a brain going on a rampage......

[CP5670]

He could always just place a bomb behind a trashcan or something (or anywhere it would be hard to find) in a crowded mall, run out of there, and remote-detonate it a few minutes later from his car. Nobody would suspect him.

[Stryke 9]

Like I said, I think the point of the exercise was entertainment, not racking up the biggest body count possible. Hell, if I just wanted to defeat the US, the Capitol building would be a pile of smoking rubble by now. But I take other things into consideration, such as me being in charge in the aftermath.