'Shots fired' in Munich shopping centre

[The Viking]

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.

Yes, but I'm being purposely provocative here - given that this latest individual was in all senses comparable to those ghastly events at Columbine and Sandy Hook.

I'm not suggesting for one minute that they are terrorism; what I am saying is that -  should we level 'terrorism' at what happened in Munich yesterday, given that it shared a lot of similarities in motive (seemingly) with Columbine and Sandy Hook, then we need to be careful there.