[browardchad]

Could be they just discovered that these locations provide easy targets and favorable physical layouts for their attacks.

Very possible; I also wonder if the first hit (at Michael's in MD) wasn't simply a miss, and another Michael's was visited for that reason. That would imply some vanity on the part of the shooter.

[Route66]

That's very good. You may really have something there...

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Could it be some left-wing gun control nut that is shooting people to sow fear, and get more support for gun control laws? I bet you won't hear that theory on the major networks. But 'right-wing gun nut' is sure to be sprinkled liberally (no pun intended) about in news reports.

[gridlock]

Very possible; I also wonder if the first hit (at Michael's in MD) wasn't simply a miss, and another Michael's was visited for that reason. That would imply some vanity on the part of the shooter.

The police should look for web traffic after the last shooting last night somebody who was looking for the location of Michael's stores in the Washington DC area. I mean, if you wanted to find the location of a Michaels, how would you do it?

Surfing leaves footprints.

Anybody have any LE contacts that they could forward this to?