Bombs, things like bombs = Terrorism.
Guns of all types = Lunatics.
One is legal (guns).
The other isn't (bombs).
Gun crime is assumed to come from several domestic causes, never having that 'foreign' flavor to it.
Political or foreign = Terrorism.
Domestic crime = Insanity.
Terrorism seems to be confined as something between nations or groups that are not nations but go after other nations.
If groups go after each other inside their own country, it's not called terrorism. It's called civil war or conflicts.
If these had been completely home grown corn fed white boys, it'd be handled the same as the White Supremacists who bombed some places to kill people a couple of years ago. Just plain criminal, nothing to see here folks, move along.
This event should be handled as a criminal matter by the locality affected and it looks like it will be. Which is not how terrorism cases are.
They aren't being charged with committing terrorism, only state charges. Some people thought the guys who planned to kill Obama and take over the government were guilty of sedition, treason or terrorism, all the big sexy stuff.
The state didn't see it that way. They charged them as the criminals they were and that was that. That's what the difference is my mind.
The reason we don't call gun crime or domestic crimes with bombs terrorism is because we never ascribe a political motive to it. I think this is going to shake out exactly that way, no matter how much the media howls for going to war.
No doubt about it, that's what Lindsay Graham and media are trying to do, sell a war. Obama won't agree to it, so they will call him soft on terrorism. As usual, they are full of shit.
For all we know in this case, the very able defenders will come up with a way to show that Jahar didn't do it, or that there is some extenuating case. I don't particularly care why he did it if he did it. Only that he won't do it again.
That's about it for me. Sure someone will come up with some better answers.
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