'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?

You had mentally disturbed, disenfranchised, alienated, gun-obsessed, attention-seeking youths looking to punish a people for supposed wrongdoings within their local communities and gaining the infamous notoriety that they so obviously yearned for in the process.

Not necessarily politically motivated; just an angry, vitriolic and violent outburst that was intended to hurt as many other people as possible.



I don't know.

I thought this was open/shut last night. Now, I don't know.

It is so, so easy to blame the "mentally disturbed". According to WHO, there are 450 million people who are classed as "Mentally disturbed", so does this mean that all these people will eventually go out and terrorise the world? People go out with their own agendas I'm afraid.

Don't put words into my mouth - especially as regards an issue such as this. I have a lot of personal experience in that area.

But there are compulsions acted upon and exacerbated inexorably by mental conditions that remove inhibitions from such acts. In SOME cases.