run with guns?

From Special Guest Blogger, Jennifer

So, today, I ran five miles for the first time in forever (training for a 10k). I'd reached around 3.5 miles on the bike trail near my house, when I noticed three men running with what I took to be sticks. They were rapidly coming up behind me.

I was in one of those running trances, cranking my iPod on some Cars tunes, and my first thought was, "Damn, I'm gonna have to move because there are three of them." But then I noticed the machine guns they were running with, and I kind of stopped, and started to think of getting the heck out of there and ducking and covering myself. The guys were moving, the guns were pointed at the sky, and they seemed to be in formation but not in uniforms of any kind.

Then a cop car drove up behind them, and they had a conversation. The policeman then drove off. The three men continued running and eventually passed me, guns ‹ which may or may not have been plastic replicas, I really have no idea, ‹ pointed skyward, turning on a busy road that goes into downtown Vienna, VA. I wanted to ask them what the heck they were doing, but you know...it's never a good idea to bug people with guns.

So what the heck was that? And no matter what it was...ROTC drill, police training...isn't there something severely messed up that they'd LET THEM DO THAT TWO DAYS AFTER A MAD GUNMAN KILLED 32 PEOPLE IN THE SAME STATE?

I'm just aghast.

Jennifer