Mass shooting at Virginia Beach Municipal Center, shooter in custody — multiple injuries and deaths

[RioRico]

@LapsedPacifist

Terrorist, despite increasingly common usage, doesn’t just mean ‘really bad person.’ It implies the use of violence to effect political results through terror or, on occasion, direct destruction of something/someone hated.

Terrorism is the use OR THREAT of violence to affect politics by instilling terror in the populace. Phoning or posting an assassination or bomb threat for political ends is terrorism. Gov’t pronouncements promoting fear are terrorism. Much verbiage from recent GOP administrations has been terrorism. We needn’t look far.