I think that the very first shot--through the Michael's window--was aimed at someone outside and was a miss.
If this is a terror team like it looks there's may be even 4 or 5 members using two vehicles.
I think they've stayed out of the Maryland area southeast of the District of Corruption since it is a peninsula and they might get bottled up there.
The murderer is firing single shots but is doing so with a semi-auto because they might end up in a shootout with the law.
The shots are pre-dominantly fired from a vehicle which maybe has a hidden compartment for the rifle if they intend to try to BS their way through a roadblock.
Possibly they are basing out of DC. In any event, traffic congestion there and multiple surveillance cameras would render it unattractive.
I wonder how fast the traffic lights in the region could all be turned red at the same time--or if it's even actually possible.
The News Cartel may have another reason for refusing to even mention the "T" word--it would provide an upsurge of public support for the plan to go to war in Iraq. I feel that they desperately want this to be a home grown crime series. Rockpile
Very insightful. I think your analysis is sound on all points. Having spent a lot of time in DC, I did not think of your traffic entrapment point but it is certainly valid. Everything they have done is planned to give them the best chance to avoid getting caught and identified.
Would not surprise me if you catch them and they blow themselves up.
The shot through the Michael's window was just a miss.
Observe that depending on how high a priority you want to place on not taking casualties, there are a lot of things you could do--a second or third vehicle for example; a real nominal vehicle like a late model Toyota that blends anywhere; you could abandon your truck shooting platform with a timed charge on it and simply leave with the rest of your cell in your Toyo.
It smells like they made some mistake at the moment the shot was fired on Friday--because the authorities seem to have known where the shot came from or at least what the direction was, very shortly after the shot was fired; I assume they just did not see the cop--hard to understand why that would happen. I don't think there is any hidden message in not paying attention to the cop; they just overlooked him.
There are lots of choices for gun besides the M16 and the civilian version (AR15); the mini 14 is easier to shoot (for me) than either one; the scope mounting setup is better--further, depending on what your shooting platform offers, you could have an assult rifle with you but shoot with a different gun--a bolt action was posted yesterday that would seem to be a much better sniper rifle than any of the semi-autos.
Rockpile you hit the bullet right on the primer with this!! Propoganda of omission.
You're 100% right about this; and they want, most of all, for it to be a white supremecist or militant; recall that when the Anthrax was being mailed, that's the direction of their blame....right wingers in the midwest.