A debate for mass shootings

[Belsnickel]

(10-06-2017, 12:37 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: No, not even a little.  Based on the evidence the incident appears to be a spur of the moment decision.  I think the guy got scared/angry and punched the gas.  How much discussion has there been about people blocking roads and people commenting on how they'd plow through the crowd?  I think, in the split second the human brain makes these types of decisions, all of that went through his head; fear, anger, annoyance, etc.  I don't think it's logical to think he thought something along the lines of, "If I plow my car through this group of people I'll be scaring them from protesting against white supremacy in the future".

It wasn't fear, it may have been anger, but it was intentional and planned. To go down that street at that speed the way that occurred, there is no other explanation. He traveled two blocks on that street.

Top of the street:


The stoplight at the top of that street is where he turned onto it. There was no one in this street at the time.

He crossed over the pedestrian mall at a high rate of speed seen in videos and continued down the street on the other side.

Bottom:


Where those people are standing is where he hit the crowd.

So while I can understand the argument that this wasn't terrorism because you may not think it was ideologically motivated, it was not a spur of the moment decision, there was intent behind his actions.