So you think that's how this is all going to play out, getting taken out with a drone missile? I highly doubt it.

Thought i heard that he'd only earned "marksman" on a rifle, thats the lowest rung of qualification in the army, as you know.

They better HOPE he isnt an actual sniper with a 50cal.

The wife is "up the mountain" right now.

I always get nervous when she makes her yearly trek back to Cali but this year my ass is a spaghetti press...

Just a possibility, but pin point him first and send in a sniper team would be how i would approach it.

He will crave a McRib at some point, and then, KAPOWWIE!

:hmmm:

If he was, he'd have never missed the first officers he shot at.

NewChief is right - we have a guy that was probably wronged, but who ultimately also has a hell of a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur. And yeah, I bet he was a bit of a militant prick that was no fun to work with. I'm sorry, Tiger - you may be good, but you ain't that good. You're not going to just get the LAPD to scrap their playbook because you've read it before. Even a shitty plan is going to work with large numbers and technology on their side.

Even if he does have a .50 cal, he's not going to shoulder-mount the thing and take on the National Guard. And seeing as how the only person he's actually managed to kill during this rampage was a woman and her boyfriend and not any of the armed, trained officers he's targeted, well something tells me the guy isn't nearly as good as he thinks he is.

He'd have been smarter to just steal another boat and tool down to Mexico.

Clamped very tight due to nervousness...

I may never eat spaghetti again...

There are enough nut jobs out there that will help him out.

Low carb is better anyway...

The McRib brings them in every time.....

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His job on his last deployment was to protect a fixed asset. He's not really what you probably think of when you hear "sniper." He's actually much more dangerous than that. He's been trained in a variety of skills including wilderness/urban survival, knowledge of high and low tech weaponry, tactics and strategy, military history and police procedure. The mention of his marksmanship rank is a ploy by the media to interject as much drama into this story as they can, what it really means is that he is proficient with his firearms. The truth is that if he doesn't want to be found...he won't be. The real danger is that (according to his manifesto) he's not hiding and trying to get away, he's maintaining a tactical position while inflicting the highest possible casualty rate. You should feel happy that he's not coming for you. I know that I wouldn't want to go after him. I seriously doubt that our military forces want to either. But they might have to eventually.

He doesn't need money.

My bets are on the McRib flushing him out