A lethal shotgun booby trap has haunted police throughout the Eastern U.S. First discovered in Florida the device consists of 6 ounces of commercial explosive, an electric blasting cap, three 1.5-volt batteries, a plastic hair curler, two foil contacts, and connecting wires, all contained in the (wo barrels of a shotgun. When the weapon is 'broken open,’ the circuit is completed and the device explodes. (Courtesy of Pennsylvania State PoliceJ door, where it was mounted with the barrels pointing toward the rear of the vehicle. The weapon fired by a trip handle or wire handled by the driver, who opens the door slightly to aim the weapon rearward toward the target approaching the vehicle. The main target for this sort of ambush, obviously, would be police officers, customs officials, or DEA people. "The armed fringe of our increasingly violent society is out there getting meaner and more deadly diabolical all the time, especially as lawful control either closes in or is perceived as doing so," terrorist expert Brian Jenkinson told me, adding that he felt that the political, economic, and social turmoil of the 1990s would escalate this carnage from the violently lunatic fringe of both the Left and the Right. In the United States today, serious law enforcement people recognize that the major threat of terrorism comes from the Right fringe, rather than that of the Left. This despite 10 years of political bleating from the White House, which has turned much of America into a police state where ordinary citizens, fearfully and stupidly, have given their Constitutional rights away for vague political promises of better protection from street crime, drugs.