William Quick notices that there is one tip to help ensure safety versus the D.C. Sniper that is conspicuous in its absence:
“Carry your firearm with you at all times, and if you spot a sniper shooting at somebody, use your weapon to kill him immediately.”
Like Tim Blair wrote yesterday:
HEARD anything from Italy’s Red Brigades lately? What about Germany’s Baader-Meinhof gang? Where has Japan’s Red Army been hiding? Whatever happened to the Weather Underground?
All of these terrorist organisations have more or less vanished. According to the anti-war lobby, which holds that a violent reaction to terrorism only breeds more terrorism, they should be thriving. Andreas Baader’s suicide in Stammheim Prison in 1977 should have inspired an army of followers.
Instead, they’re gone. Killing and jailing terrorists wipes out terror. The only major European terrorist group from that era to survive in any significant way is the IRA, which tells us something: attacking terrorists doesn’t breed terror. Negotiating with them does.