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If you’re trying to kill a number of people, why not head for the sidewalk like the ISIS folks do?

Two reasons (in this case)

One, the sidewalks were narrow, as anyone can see watching the video. Thus, near the site of impact with the car in front there were actually more people in the center of the street than on the sidewalks. Also, to drive on a skinny sidewalk may look easy in the movies but it's not, as the surface (itself not made for motor vehicles to drive on) is much more uneven and then there's the curb itself an impediment to straight line driving.

Two, as anyone can see from the video, in addition to the sidewalks being narrow, there were street signs and other heavier poles obstructing the already narrow path, so if the driver had gone up on the sidewalk, he wouldn't have gotten very far because the signs and poles would have disabled his car before he got as far as he did.

It wouldn't take a professional driver to realize those two points above. Anyone with an average level of driving experience would have realized them and thus not driven on the sidewalk.

The only thing you've got supporting any kind of greater conspiracy in this is the *possible* (and I stress possible) fact the airbag didn't deploy.

Backing up straight for two (small) city blocks isn't that hard. Anyone who's driven a car with any confidence can do that. I've done that. It wasn't a "mile" and when he got to the second block the car stopped, it didn't do any fancy maneuver to turn around like in some movie or something.

He hit the car in front at the end of the rampage. A "professional" driver wouldn't do that potentially disabling his car for the getaway.

So you just (*maybe*) have an airbag that didn't deploy for whatever reason. It happens that they sometimes just don't deploy. He should sue Dodge!

It's looking more and more likely that he was some nut who decided to take some lives he hated that day. Wrapping up in conspiracy theories will only damage any credibility the conservative movement has left when the media is done feasting on this. And in fact, conspiracy theories at this juncture may actually help a leftist agenda.

Think about that before you reply in disagreement to this post.