Being a Sniper is the New Black

What constitutes a societal trend? Sure, we've talked about Pokemon, but has anyone noted the frightening headlines--popping up in cities from coast to coast--about snipers on the prowl?

Nobody could forget the DC sniper. Working gas stations not too long after 9/11, hell, President Bush should have waged a war against that terrorist. And that wasn't the only one.

Around the beltway, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 and tagged three others (wounded only). As it turns out, the duo had already been on a murdering and robbery spree, hoping to extort $10 million from the government.

Then, just last month in the podunk town of Seymour, Indiana, Zachariah Blanton, a 17-year-old no less, opened fire on cars driving on I-65. By the time police found the first victim, Blanton had struck again 50 miles away. And yes, then he went on shooting before he was nabbed.

And two weeks ago police collared two perps suspected of waging a sniping campaign that has killed six and left 17 wounded in Phoenix over the last year.

Odd? No, there are other words for this . . .

(Photo from flickr.)

Comments

[crazy no way]

oddity? try again. this is deranged. some of us are odd but shooting people indiscriminately from afar goes way past being odd.