dbcooper41 wrote:regardless of his ability to pull the trigger that fast, wouldn't the targets(children) have run, hid, ran around screaming in terror , whatever, once the shooting started? or did they all just stand there like good kids and get shot?
Hi dbcooper41. Resident thread gatekeeper here. I think it depends upon the scenario. Most six-year olds can be easily cowed by yelling. Believe it or not, it's pretty easy to reduce six-year olds to crying and cringing. There were a few reports of just this type of activity - shouting and screaming from the shooter. The shooter apparently shot Rousseau in the face when he entered the classroom, and her students were found in a huddle. The one surviving child and one who survived but subsequently died en route to the hospital were apparently at the bottom of the huddle, and were likely protected by the other children's bodies. This type of huddling is totally characteristic of little kids.
would a lone guman be able to control them and fire several hundred rounds. most of them hitting a target?
Think of the space they were in. Think of the size of a typical first-grade classroom holding sixteen students, and imagine the coverage you'd get by bumping the trigger as shown in the videos upthread. Realistically, this is how you wind up with eleven bullets in a six-year old - by spraying at extreme close range, under twenty feet away. It also explains the multiple wounds in all the victims. He's not really aiming at individual targets except in the roughest sense.
But apparently students in Soto's class were already being hidden when the shooter burst in, and some of them tried to run for it only to be shot. Again, I'm assuming the shooter is spraying bullets, not unlike a machine gun. It's probably pretty easy to hit even a child-size target at such close range if you use enough lead.
getting back to lauren rousseau's very bad day(wrong place, wrong time).
if her car was hit 3 times(supposedly by shots from inside), did the shooter actually hold his position and fire 3 indentical shots at targets inside and each one managed to pass through the school windows and find ms rousseau's car?
The bump shooting could account for this grouping, bullets being sprayed around in grouped bursts and finding windows.
another thing, has anyone heard of the teacher she was subbing for that day? seems it would make a good human interest story. she must be filled with grief knowing a lovely young lady died in her place.
Rousseau was a permanent sub, meaning she had taken over for a teacher out on a long-term absence, usually due to illness or surgery. But yeah, that would make a great interview: "You realize of course that your probably fake illness caused the death of a beloved wife and mother, don't you? DON'T YOU??? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT??? NOW CRY."
something else that seems peculiar, who declared so many of the victim dead on the scene?
Multiple wounds on a six-year old? Frangible rounds = massive wounds. I think the emergency medical personnel can pretty easily tell a dead person from a live one. Triage procedures in effect.
I hope that helps keep the gate closed for you. I'd hate to see any theories get by me without being shepherded back to a bland quotidian.
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