Jinglin Joe
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also, what was your previous username
Las Vegas: Worst Mass Shooting in US History
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What in the world do you think I'm protecting? The US government? You really dont know **** about me if you think I defend the Military-Industrial complex that exist in America .
Yes, the American government/military actively participates in state sanctioned terrorism.
Do you think I'm just trying to protect the label of "terrorism" for only Muslims to degrade anyone of Islamic faith? Please **** off.
I don't call any of the mass murders terrorism the moment they happen, no matter what the person looks like. More information has to be found on the persons background and their ties to political or radical religious movements. Muslims can be depressed psychopaths w/ mental illness who murder with no clear motivation too.
My name has been some variation of Cy on here for the last 7 years.
Jinglin Joe
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why is the ugli cave ded
Archie Moses
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Lol The Thriller reported my comment for a personal attack.
I disagree. Terrorism is anything where the INTENTION is to cause terror, specifically in people not directly affected by it.
Charles Whitman was not a terrorist, but he did cause terror.
Richard Reid was a terrorist, even though he did not kill anyone.
Zombie
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Why the **** does it matter whether it is "terrorism" or not? The people who were killed aren't any more or less dead either way.
The only difference I can see is when a "terrorist" attack occurs our government enacts policies to try to counteract it, and when it is not we throw our arms in the air and claim nothing can be done.
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The only difference I can see is when a "terrorist" attack occurs our government enacts policies to try to counteract it, and when it is not we throw our arms in the air and claim nothing can be done.
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I mean, in general having more information on why people do things is beneficial. It can help you prevent things in the future.
Mass murders being terrorism or not is pretty inconsequential when it comes to gun reform though. Gun reform is needed either way.
And I just find it annoying when people try to change the definitions of words to the point where everyone has their own unique definition and it becomes this completely subjective/meaningless thing. I think the label of terrorist/terrorism is pretty cut and dry and not all that subjective.
Jinglin Joe
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Exactly.
The word "terrorism" has been used as a political tool more than anything else.
Intuitively, it makes sense that anything that causes terror is terrorism. Simple.
Putting a religious or political qualifier to it is clearly by design. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Zombie
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I hear what you're saying here and I agree with you in the sense that the profile of a religious or political terrorist would be different than a mass shooter.
But we're not the ****ing FBI, we are not going to be tracking these **** heads down. It seems to me that drawing this kind of distinction in public discourse only serves to minimize what we can do in one instance and heighten the need to do something in the other. It drives me ****ing nuts.
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So because people have misused the word, then it's OK for everyone to misuse it and assign their own definitions how they see fit?
This makes no sense.
Zombie
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I want to be clear, that's not what I think you are doing here.
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