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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Rick- What I don't get is if he was targeting the congresswoman and shot her point blank he accomplished his goal. Then what? Did he start shooting at random? Of course none of it makes any sense and I am sure the shooter will never say so the answer may never be known.
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That he shot so many other people proves he was a raging nutbag and not just some determined political assassin. And it takes some pretty deliberate shooting to hit that many people. That's not random firing. That's walking up to each person and shooting them from a few ft. (at most) away. There would have been plenty of time for an armed citizen to take him out, had there been one there. The only question is how long it would have taken for someone to figure out what was going on and who the bad guy was. There have been police shootouts with several hundred bullets flying where no one was hit. This guy was deliberate and unimpeded by anything but his ammo capacity.