(July 23, 2016 at 3:18 pm)The Viking Wrote: Playing 'devil's advocate' could it be argued that Columbine and Sandy Hook, etc. should/would have been labelled as 'terrorism' under this scrutiny?
It blurs the line if you call of these acts terrorism. I would call attacks terrorism when some political, religious or ideological motif is behind it. Brejvik, definitely an act of terror. Sandy Hook, Columbine or Dunblane, a crime, not a terrorist act.