A debate for mass shootings

[GMDino]

(10-04-2017, 12:10 PM)Au165 Wrote: 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.

I think, to me, that is why motivation is the key.

If someone attacks a church or a political building it seems (in most cases) the motivation is because they oppose the people in those buildings.  Same with a gay night club.  Those are specific events though.

In Vegas?  We don't know why all of a sudden this guy went off.  

Does it it create "terror"?  Yes.  Is it an act of terrorism?  I'm assuming not because he didn't attack a group of christians/muslims/gays/republicans he just attacked a group.

Ted Bundy created a terror for young women...but his goal was not to do that.  It was to rape and kill women.  He didn't want them afraid...he wanted them to be easily captured.