McPatrickClan said:
I could not agree with you more, Barak.
It's good to see something we agree on.
We need courage from our American citizens to blow the whistle on this dirtbag before he selfishly takes more citizens down.
I'm sure just about anyone has the courage to tell the police what he sees after an attack; but we need more than that if we're going to catch the guy.
If he keeps his wits about him and doesn't either A) lose his nerve, or B) get drunk on his own celebrity, I can't see how he's ever going to be caught by the police. There's no motive for the police to follow, there's very little evidence (the white van is probably a decoy: it would be if I were the sniper), and a usable witness is pretty unlikely.
Have you ever been out in the woods during deer gun season? When you hear a single gunshot, even if it's close, it's surprisingly difficult to localize. You can get it down to perhaps 90 degrees of azimuth, but unless a second shot follows or unless you see something (movement, cloud of black-powder smoke, blaze orange), 90 degrees is about as good as you get.
(I have heard that the reason safari hunters have traditionally hunted elephants with huge twenty-pound hinge-action double rifles instead of bolt guns, even though bolts can be made much stronger, is that if you miss with the first shot, your life will depend on being able to fire the second shot without making
any noise between shots. You have to stalk pretty close to kill an elephant (dangerous-game guns have open sights and an elephant must be taken with a brain shot); once you fire that first shot all the attention in the entire herd is going to be on finding out where it came from. They won't charge you yet because they don't know where you are; but the noise of throwing a bolt (or even the click of cocking the double gun's other hammer, if you forgot it before the first shot) will bring them thundering down on you. (Reportedly, if you make a good hit, the rest of the herd will more likely flee than charge.))
In an urban environment, there's just too much density and movement in that 90 degrees of azimuth to allow you to focus in on anything, and all the echos are guaranteed to distract and confuse you. If the guy is making sure there's nobody within, say, fifteen or twenty yards, if he's shooting out a cracked window from a heavily-tinted car (perhaps his gun is rested on a stack of laundry baskets on the front seat of the car and disguised with dirty laundry), if he freezes after the shot, and
especially if his conspicuously clean buddy in the ostentatious white van burns rubber and beats feet immediately thereafter ("Of
course I was fleeing the scene, officer! I heard a gunshot! I panicked!"), he can pretty much keep this up as long as he likes.
A city full of armed citizens doesn't have a tremendous chance of bringing him down either: but it's a lot better chance than the police have.
It is our America, let's not let him wreck it!
Of course, my opinion (

) is that the only reason he's able to exist at all is because the government has
already wrecked our America, mostly with our supervision and approval.