How many people have to die in a firearms attack, in order to classify it as a act of terrorism? 100? A million?
Or is it a case that in the US, no amount of firearms deaths could ever be classified as "terrorism" because ...
(1) we have a dysfunctional 230 year addiction, and love affair with guns.. and
(2) we are fighting a war against terrorism.
That would be shooting our culture in the foot.
Does anyone honestly think that we won't see a repeat of this kind of violence, all because we wrung our hands for a couple of weeks, shed some crocodile tears and said "oh how sad, oh how tragic", before the collective amnesia sets in and the story disappears from the headlines?
"The definition of insanity is the repetition of the same action expecting a different result." John Laroquette. In cases involving terrorism by the gun, just substitute "action" for "inaction".
Idiotsville, anyone?
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