If the intent of a person with a gun is to kill as many people as possible with it...

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16. Fair enough.

By the mob I mean organized crime families like the ones in NY / Chicago back in the early 20th century was Al Capone a terrorist or just an opportunist? Perhaps a better entity as an example would be the Cartels such as the Zeta's or Sinaloa.

As for the US government. I disagree the support we gave Pinochet alone qualifies. We may not have pulled the trigger but we provided the gun. Another way that we have targeted civilians is by embargoes / sanctions hoping that by making life so miserable for the population that they would rise up and over throw the dictator or regime of the sanctions target. Iraq is a good example of this before we got tired of waiting and invaded in 2003.