Inspired to hate: Why mass shooters and their political patrons should be classified as terrorists
A terrorist attacked Club Q in Colorado Springs. Days later another terrorist attacked WalMart workers in Virginia. It has happened over 600 times this year. But nobody is calling them terrorists, and that is a problem for America. We didn’t call the jihadis who blew up the Twin Towers “mentally ill,” “disgruntled,” or discuss their “troubled past.” We correctly called them terrorists because they used mass murder to try to “right a wrong” or achieve a political goal, which is the literal definition of terrorism. Osama bin Laden was nowhere in the vicinity of 9/11 — we later learned...
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