A debate for mass shootings

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(10-04-2017, 11:57 AM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: I have heard several people state that they avoid large events now, and have been avoiding them for a while.  When average, every day citizens are afraid to do what they once would have done, and live in fear of a boogeyman who wants to end their life for one insane reason or another, I consider that terrorism.

So is a serial rapist a terrorist because they keep people from walking in a local park at night? Crime, and especially repetitive crime, cause people to change their habits. If someone breaks in down the street from you, you are probably going to start locking your doors. Terrorism requires a reason, something ideologically driving it, otherwise you could literally call everything terrorism and if everything is terrorism then nothing technically is terrorism.