10-03-2017, 11:41 PM
Was it specifically for political or religious reasons? If no, then it's not terrorism.
From what I have heard, this guy just decided one day he wanted to kill folks and started planning it. That's not terrorism, just a psychopath.
If he went into a mosque and then screamed "This is for 8lb, 6oz Baby Jesus!", then it's terrorism.
If he went to a baseball practice full of senators of the opposite political party he believes in and started shooting them all, then it's terrorism.
If you start just calling every crime terrorism, it loses all meaning. Just like the term "hero" lost all meaning after it's overuse post-9/11 instead becoming to mean anyone who does a good thing, and "racist" is bordering on losing it's meaning after the 2016 election becoming to mean anyone who doesn't agree with a liberal, and "traitor" is bordering on losing it's meaning after the 2016 election becoming to mean anyone who doesn't agree with a conservative. Just because more than one person got attacked, still doesn't make it terrorism. For instance, I don't consider the Dallas shooter a terrorist. Just a murderous racist. I also don't consider Dylan Roof to be a terrorist. Also just a murderous racist.
Overuse of a word to expand to more people than it was intended to makes that word really not mean anything anymore.
From what I have heard, this guy just decided one day he wanted to kill folks and started planning it. That's not terrorism, just a psychopath.
If he went into a mosque and then screamed "This is for 8lb, 6oz Baby Jesus!", then it's terrorism.
If he went to a baseball practice full of senators of the opposite political party he believes in and started shooting them all, then it's terrorism.
If you start just calling every crime terrorism, it loses all meaning. Just like the term "hero" lost all meaning after it's overuse post-9/11 instead becoming to mean anyone who does a good thing, and "racist" is bordering on losing it's meaning after the 2016 election becoming to mean anyone who doesn't agree with a liberal, and "traitor" is bordering on losing it's meaning after the 2016 election becoming to mean anyone who doesn't agree with a conservative. Just because more than one person got attacked, still doesn't make it terrorism. For instance, I don't consider the Dallas shooter a terrorist. Just a murderous racist. I also don't consider Dylan Roof to be a terrorist. Also just a murderous racist.
Overuse of a word to expand to more people than it was intended to makes that word really not mean anything anymore.
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