A White Terrorist Gunned Down A Cop And The #BlueLivesMatter Crowd Revealed Its True Colors

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3. I'm struggling to understand how a terrorist killing can be senseless

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This phrase has been very popular of late, but an act of terror is intended to intimidate and cause behavioral and even political change.

It seems to me that murders can't be labelled acts of terrorism unless there is an acceptance that the motive of the killer was that intimidation/attempt to change behavior in others.

Ineffective, counter-productive etc are among terms that could modify a terrorist killing, but not senseless.

Granted people who don't share the terrorists motives don't see the 'sense of it' as valid. But, that's not the same as being senseless. If police are to ever put together a matrix that can be used to identify risky people who may perpetrate terrorist acts they will need to incorporate why it makes sense to the terrorists.