Self defense does not work against a sniper--you gotta sneak up on him from behind. If you are walking around in the affected area with a gun at the ready, you better be wearing a uniform or you may end up a corpse due to someone else's "self-defense".

This is beyond strange and evil.

And Maryland being full of guns doesn't seem to have helped the situation.

By the way Troll, in gun-controlled Canada the murder rate has always been around 10% of the US's. See, we DO have the means of protecting ourselves: laws that prevent millions of guns being easily accessed by people with criminal or impulsively violent tendencies.

Willie-O