Nashville Christmas Explosion

[Wallfire]

If the bomber/bombers were gunning for a person, why not just go shoot the person? Why blow up a whole street? Why the warning? 

FWIW, husband said it was how the IRA used to do things....that someone is using their tactics.  Sometimes they wanted to kill people, sometimes they (just?) wanted to make a point.

No one's going to be making much of any point if they don't take credit for the bombing, tho.

The tactic used by the IRA was to give a warning to the news paper with a code word who then informed the  security forces that a bomb was in such and such a place then have the bomb explode before the security had a chance to clear the area, in doing that they could keep there hands "blood free" and blame the deaths on the security forces.
This bomb is strange in the way that a warning was given that the van could be identify, and that the explosion did "little " damage. I would say from now on  expect lots of car bombs with no warning, a lot of them will be planted by black people so as to kill black people and blame the whites. Its basic car bombing 101, BLM and Antifa will be hard at work on this one.