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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3083822" data-attributes="member: 13624">I think you're overanalyzing it.  They're not choosing gun-free zones, choosing victims to draw maximum emotion, they're choosing a setting and victims prominent in their lives.  When adults go on a shooting spree, they often do it at their workplaces, and for precisely the same reasons.  Others do it at churches or other venues, by whom they feel somehow wronged (even if the "wrong" is merely existence, as with some of the racial shootings).  The Las Vegas shooting, I'll grant that it was a careful, deliberate selection, but that's not typical; the school shooters are generally shooting up their own schools.  If they wanted maximum impact, they'd be going to elementary schools (Adam Lanza notwithstanding, but again, he's the exception, not the rule).</blockquote>