DC snipers were a fluke? Think again.

You wanna talk about terrorism? I lived in DC during the sniper attacks. I didn't know it at the time, but I was lucky to be living in a mostly black, working-class area. Then the MSM was speculating it was al Qaeda or who knows what. It ended up it was a black veteran and his underaged nephew. The two of them held the entire DC metro area (N. Virgina, DC, Maryland) in fear for 23 days. And all they had were a few sniper rifles. Kids didn't go to school. People didn't go to work, or shop, or fill up with gas. And all they needed were a few rifles to accomplish mayhem. No WMD. No dirty bombs. Not even fertilizer bombs. Just a couple of guns. Cheap, easy, horribly effective terrorism.

When is America going to wake up and realize that its biggest threats are home-grown?

The easy access to an abundance of legal firearms is the problem. To this day, there is absolutely NOTHING stopping al Qaeda or any other terrorists from mimicking EXACTLY what the DC snipers did, in any city in America. We've just been damn lucky, that's all. They want the big spectacle on the international news. They want skyscrapers tumbling, or airplanes falling from the sky. But REAL terrorism is so much easier to accomplish, and so unpreventable. Thank Allah that al Qaeda is so short-sighted.

DC sniper's Muhuammad's execution set for tonight

By Dena Potter

November 10, 2009 | Associated Press