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[JDPriestly]

200. A public attack, indiscriminate in nature against a political figure?

Seems to me that describes the attack on Gabby Giffords. Schizophrenic? Aren't most terrorists schizophrenic?

Schizophrenia (/ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfriːniə/) is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by impaired emotional responses.[1] Common symptoms include delusions, such as paranoid beliefs; hallucinations; disorganized thinking; and negative symptoms, such as blunted affect and avolition. Schizophrenia causes significant social and vocational dysfunction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia

The attacker in the Giffords case was not disorganized enough in his thinking to be unable to organize the attack quite well. Aren't many people who would be identified as "terrorists" just as "schizophrenic" as he was? He organized the attack very well.

Do you consider the guy who did the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing to have been a terrorist? What made him different from the man in the Giffords case? Aren't most people who ascribe to extremist political ideologies pretty "schizophrenic"? or at least on the border of it?

Besides, isn't the schizophrenia a defense and a reason to be declared unfit for trial? It doesn't determine the nature of the charges faced does it? The prosecution does not decide that the attacker was schizophrenic and therefore not a terrorist? The prosecution decides the charge based on the facts of the act. And that is the problem with the Patriot Act's definition of an act of terror. It doesn't really distinguish the act of terror from acts like the attack on Gabby Gifford (if there is a difference to distinguish).

If the Gifford attacker's motive was apolitical, why did he pick on Gabby Gifford?

What was it about her and the situation that drew his attention and caused him to attack? Let's assume he was insane. He was not too insane to pick a target. Why Gabby Gifford? He did not know her.