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This mom doesn't know anything about guns (at least for now) so I can't comment on the technicalities you mentioned. It's very interesting what you said about each weapon being set to the shooter. So do we have 1 weapon for 2 equally skilled shooters or 2 weapons for 2 shooters with different skills? I tend to favor the second because it seems to me a very skilled shooter wouldn't want to use someone else's rifle or would be able to adjust its aim. So I think we have 2 shooters and 2 rifles.

Also I posted on another thread:

I thought the perps were AQ too until I read a post mentioning someone's comments about he/they being addicted to violent video games and wanting to get a new level of thrill by shooting real people instead of virtual ones. Considering the extreme level of violence of some of the more "realistic" games on the market nowadays, I do find this hypothesis very interesting and wouldn't be surprised at all if it were the case. They might even be school age kids and it would shed a different light on the last shooting.

So, do we have 2 young adult killers playing very violent video games and each having access to a rifle?

***This mom doesn't know anything about guns (at least for now) so I can't comment on the technicalities you mentioned. It's very interesting what you said about each weapon being set to the shooter. So do we have 1 weapon for 2 equally skilled shooters or 2 weapons for 2 shooters with different skills? ***

Whoever posted that comment must have some serious optical issues. Not more than two months ago there were four of us sharing a friends .300 Win Mag rifle plucking off eggs at 300 yards. No adjustments were made to the scope between shooters and it worked just fine for all of us. Peep sights are a different story though, they are generally close between shooters, but for the type with a large rear sight, there can often be differences.

"So, do we have 2 young adult killers playing very violent video games and each having access to a rifle?"

Actually I don' think this is the case, simply because if it did come from a video game, seems like to me they would just keep running around shooting people till they were dead, or until everyone else was dead, just like you do on those video games right?

On the 1 or 2 rifles, you could absolutely be right, but I don't see why you would need 2. If you have two people, one driver, one shooter, then there would be no need for two rifles, unless it was to clear up the "zeroing" problem. Of course, if they had two rifles, I would think they would both be shooting one cooridinated shot, resulting in two kills with one "noise problem". Makes sense right? One noise (noise being the biggest part of getting caught) and two kills.

Oh, and by the way. It is possible for two people to shoot the same zero, it's just not likely. And about the scope zero problem it works like this.

Draw a circle on a piece of paper and put a cross through it. These are your crosshairs in you scope. Now what you've drawn is what a view through the scope should look like. Now it's all dependent on how you hold the gun, the length of your arms, ect. So if another person puts the rifle up to his shoulder, he may be too short to get a good look through the scope. This will leave him with part of the view being blacked out. So take your circle and on the left side of your circle, draw a sliver of a cresent moon from the top crosshair, following the curve of your circle, to the bottom crosshair. This cresent moon blackout you've drawn is what it might look like for someone who the gun/scope is not set up for. Now since he's not in the right place (seeing the whole scope) then he has now changed the place where the crosshairs are pointing. And I believe if he had the left blacked out a little, and put the crosshairs on target, I believe his shot will fall right (opposite of the blacked out crescent) of where his crosshairs are. It's an optical thing. Anyway, just thought I'd give you a little new info. Maybe you don't care, but putting a new wrinkle in the ole' noggin never hurt anyone right?