Why does the news keep saying they don't know if it is politically motivated or terrorist motivated? Aren't those the same thing???

(December 2, 2015 at 6:04 pm)Judi Lynn Wrote: It would seem like 2015 is the year to be disgruntled. How much worse is it going to be in 2016? At this point, I'd settle for a remote island in the middle of the ocean. As long as I have electric and internet and my cell phone, I'd be content. Well, I'd need food and fresh water, of course, but give me all of those things and my kids...

Yeah. I need that. Like yesterday.

No this crap has been going on forever. Even when I was a teen, my 1984 Jr HS yearbook had a couple pages called "Year In" depicting world and national events, one picture was of the San Ysidro McDonalds mass shooting.(overhead shot, nothing gory, but still).  Before that there was the 1966 UT clock tower shooting. But since my 85 graduation, you had Lubies Cafeteria, other school shootings, Columbine of course, and they have been increasing since.

(December 2, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Aroura Wrote: Why does the news keep saying they don't know if it is politically motivated or terrorist motivated?  Aren't those the same thing???

Allow me to help. I speak fluent "Liberal Mainstream Media", as the conservatives insist on calling it.

Terrorist motivated = Muslim whack job.

Politically motivated = Tea Party whack job.

14 dead, 14 wounded

So far.

(December 2, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:

(December 2, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Aroura Wrote: Why does the news keep saying they don't know if it is politically motivated or terrorist motivated?  Aren't those the same thing???

Allow me to help. I speak fluent "Liberal Mainstream Media", as the conservatives insist on calling it.

Terrorist motivated = Muslim whack job.

Politically motivated = Tea Party whack job.

I get really sick on people stuck on motives, who gives a shit if it was a Muslim, Tea party nut, or wack job. We have a flooded gun market. And again, these types of shootings that make national news are the tip of the iceberg as far as total gun deaths of all types. WE HAVE TOO MANY GUNS AND THEY ARE TOO EASY TO GET.

The live news is terrifying. Looks like they found the shooters, but had a shootout in a residential area. It's still in progress. I hope all the people in the houses right there are ok, and those cops too.