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Jack House

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The comments on that article make me sick. So I'm a conspiracy nut for not wanting guns (loaded guns!) pointed at me?
 

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It is interesting but also unconfirmed. I'm not sure I have a problem with it. There snipers on top of the White House and Capitol and there have been for a long time. I guess I'll wait for more details before passing judgment.

+1 on the comments.
 
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Yes they are, but they typically point binoculars at folks before the point guns at folks. This was likely the case at the Super Bowl....non-story.
 

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There was a company that produced the tripods or something... they have a facebook page that shows some of the pictures... they also were sure to point out that the photos of the sniper looking down thru the scope were taken pre-game and very few people were around... they were scanning the crowd with the binocs... NOT the scope... also it was stated that the rifles never had a chambered round.

Not sure what I think about it... but they have had snipers around the super bowl for years... I saw a video made by ashton kutcher in like 2009 of some snipers across the way on top of a bldg....
 

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I just read that there are 2 confirmed cases of measles coming from SB attendance. Probably more coming. Think Iran engaged in a little biological warfare. Snipers are no defense against that!
 

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ok, white house i can see having sniper protection of whomever is occupying the the place but super bowl or other public event....nah!!

who does the sniper take orders from?

finally, who oversees the entire operation and who is being protected per se?

wabbit
 

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ok, white house i can see having sniper protection of whomever is occupying the the place but super bowl or other public event....nah!!

who does the sniper take orders from?

finally, who oversees the entire operation and who is being protected per se?

wabbit

To me, these are valid questions. I doubt very highly that we will ever get any answers to them. My best guess it that it was a special unit of the Indy police or the Indiana state police. I suppose the command structure for the respective agency was followed.
 

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Err on the side of caution...

What better place for a terrorist, or team of terrorists, to kill hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people? Being prepared is better than being surprised. Pax...
 

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What better place for a terrorist, or team of terrorists, to kill hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people? Being prepared is better than being surprised. Pax...

Indeed it is.

We live in a different world than the one we lived in prior to 9/11/2001.
 

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SNIP We live in a different world than the one we lived in prior to 9/11/2001.

Oh, jeez. I think I'll puke if I hear that one more time.

Nothing much actually changed on 9/11. A lot of people got their illusions of safety shattered. The viewpoint changed; the facts not so much.
 

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Oh, jeez. I think I'll puke if I hear that one more time.

Nothing much actually changed on 9/11. A lot of people got their illusions of safety shattered. The viewpoint changed; the facts not so much.

+1. The facts have not changed much at all. Terrorists and religious extremists have always hated us and always will. We are no safer today than we were on September 11th.
 
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