What a load of shit!
Yeah its all Quake’s fault, let sue ID software!
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
What, you’re suprised?
Hell, I’m amazed that some obese person hasn’t sued the makers of Pac-Man for encouraging overeating.
This Ass-Clown sniper has no skill. He’s got guts though.
A real sniper would be at LEAST 300 meters away and go for the head shot. This guy is at what a sniper would consider point blank range and is shooting center mass. The only reason he’s getting the kills he is is that he’s using a small caliber round. The .223 will bounce off bones inside the body like a .22 will. That’s what’s hurting people.
They thought that the Zodiac killer had military or police training because he was able to cut down 2 people at full run with a shotgun blast from the side. The Zodiac sent the police a message saying that any idiot that “tapes a mag light to a shotgun can look like a pro. Just get them in the light and Bang!”
Video games in deed. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to go back to cleaning out my BFG.
These aren’t theories; they’re more like blue-sky conjectures based on a complete absence of facts.
From the linked article:
Where the hell does that come from? A lawyer ought to know better than to form a hypothesis based on such flimsy evidence.
Maybe the guy hates gas stations and shopping centers.
Maybe he’s a member of the NRA, trying to up recruitment.
Maybe he’s a disgruntled ex-cop/ex-marine/ex-Michael’s employee.
Maybe he’s Miss Cleo.
Who the hell knows?
This is why police profilers get paid–to figure out the motivations and personality traits of murderers. In any event, the last shooting was way too close-- 7 Corners is only a couple of miles from where I live.
Of course video games aren’t to blame. It’s the fault of the subliminable messages in Judas Priest albums … the popularity of Texas Chainsaw Masacre … he’s been reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess … it’s that new fangled music called “jazz”.
Nothing new under the sun.
I hate how people attempt to explain the unexplainable. Now tell me this perhaps, could desensitize us to violence, I’ll be inclined to agree. Tell me this sniper is killing people because he played a little too much GTA, and I’ll call you an idiot.
Gobear, be safe.
And maybe he’s a member of VPC, trying to “prove” how dangerous yet another class of firearms are as a prelude to a call for banning them. Maybe he’s John Conyers.
Speculation, in the total vacuum of fact, runs the gamut.
I bet the bastard showers every day. Who’s to say that soap and water doesn’t cause violence?
Before I ever played my first shooter, I’d shot guns before. And I was a good shot. I’ve always had decent hand-eye coordination, and it translated into a good ability in shooters (hence my handle). I love making a series of excellent head shots in games like UT, but this does not mean that these games have caused me to become psycho. Quite the reverse, actually. I abhor real violence and believe people should always try to find alternate ways of solving problems first, leaving violence as the last resort. (I’m not a pacifist, though).
Oddly enough, I can still distinguish between reality and fantasy. In reality, sniping is a cowardly (though in the military unfortunately necessary) way to kill someone (um, not that I’m opposed to it in FPS. It’s not camping; it’s sniping, dammit!). I’ve never even been in a fight.
I wish people would quit trying to find answers in the unanswerable. The sniper is fucked up. Simple as that. No amount of computer games, books, movies or chicken noodle soup helped him along and anything he blames his problems on is his attempt to justify unjustifiable actions.
And I certainly don’t mean to imply that you, gobear, necessarily believe any of the possbillities you’ve you’ve suggested. I know you are simply doing the same as I, showing that speculation is fruitless.
Exactly, UncleBeer, and I find it sad, albeit unsurprising,that some people, like John Conyers, would use this ongoing tragedy to advance their own agendas.
Bah. Quake never had a really good sniper rifle- unless this guy’s using a railgun (which would make catching him a lot easier- just look for the aftertrail), he was actually sent on this murderous spree by Unreal Tournament.
:rolleyes:
BTW, any updates on ID getting sued by Columbine parents?
from the CNN article
And if the dimrods who wrote this article actually watched the rest of the movie, it turns out that Alec Baldwin’s character fakes this in order to be stricken off as a doctor (or judged to be incapable of making ethical decisions) so that the Lead Actress (Nicole Kidman, I believe) could win her lawsuit against the hospital.
What does this have to do with the shootings? does that mean we should ban bibles as The Old Testament God frequently slaughters innocents on various occasions. how about cancelling the Televangelists who appear every Sunday Morning routinely quoting the words “I Am The Lord Your God”.
perhaps they influenced the sniper!
Whats going on with the world?
Skippman you are an idiot. Shut the fuck up.
I certainly wouldn’t classify military snipers as cowards. Anybody willing to get close to the enemy while being outgunned, outnumbered, and risking imminent death if captured isn’t a coward.
Japanese snipers in WWII would sometimes climb in trees and shoot Marines. Since they were high in a tree if discovered they couldn’t even flee. That doesn’t sound cowardly to me.
During the Viet-Nam war the NVA put out bounties on American snipers. Not just bounties based on their rank or function but by name. These same snipers still went out and did their job. That doesn’t sound cowardly to me.
Or how about the two snipers who faced overwhelming odds in Somalia in 1993? Winning the Medal of Honor isn’t generally done by a pair of cowards.
Marc
Good comic and commentary on this all.
I’d take any theory I heard about this sniper with a grain of salt. I’ve heard theories ranging from “deranged Dylan Klebold wannabe who plays too much Doom” to “al Queda operative” and everything in between.
I’ll wait until they catch the guy before I speculate on him.
:rolleyes: Great answer. Way to win support for your side. Now let me try:
The many times I’ve gone target shooting do not bear this out. First of all, the .223 is a larger bullet than the .22LR. Second, it has a HUGE powder charge by comparison, and a much higher velocity. Not exactly a recipe for bouncing around.
Here’s some numbers (energy (ft-lbs)& momentum (slug ft/sec) calculated from weight in grains and velocity (ft/sec@100yd) for standard loads, from www.remington.com):
cal weight velocity KE Momentum
.22LR 40 941 79 .168
.223 55 2273 944 .681
So the .223 Remington is 37.5% more massive, moves almost 3 times faster, and delivers 11 times more KE and 4 times more Momentum to the target. And I’ve shot many nice, clean holes through 3/16" steel plate with my Mini-14. There’s no way a squishy human body is going to cause major ricochet with a .223. They kill by hitting really hard and making holes - Shock and blood loss, along with the occasional organ damage.
And, not to condone this sick son of a bitch, but a “real sniper” would fire from whatever range the circumstances dictate, and would make his kills. This guy has done both, and meets my criteria for a “real sniper.”
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I don’t have a cite but I remember a program that aired on TLC called Small Arms and Soft Bodies, or something like that. It was a program about what happens when small arms, grenades, and landmines were used on the human body.
One of the bigger problems with the higher velocity smaller caliber rounds was that they could easiely shatter bones. So not only do you have to worry about the hole the bullet makes but sometimes you’ve got to dig bone fragments out. I don’t recall them mentioning that the 5.56 or 7.62 mm had a tendency to “bounce around” inside target.
Of course shooting through a steel plate isn’t exactly a great way to determine how a bullet will react once it hits a soft human target.
I wonder about this myself. I understand that military snipers can hit the target from quite a distance. But in real life you might not be able to find a position where your target is visible from 700 yards. When I go deer hunting there are plenty of areas in the woods I can’t get a good shot farther then 40 yards.
Marc