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Something tells me the charges in this crime are not being well-thought out. This does not sound like rational and systematic reasoning.
Of course it is scary and traumatic. There is no doubt about that. But we have had many cases of mentally disturbed and pharmaceutically drugged people shooting multiple people. They are not charged with terrorism.
The standard definition of terrorism:
Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.
What were the “political, social, or ideological objectives” in this case? Usually terrorism is associated with war in the minds of the terrorists. What war did the perp believe they were fighting?
A prosecutor in Michigan has explained why the teenage suspect in a deadly high school shooting this week was unusually charged with the crime of terrorism, along four first-degree murder counts and numerous other offenses.
Charges are also being considered against the shooter’s parents, prosecutor Karen McDonald said, which would be a rare move in cases of school shootings and would probably be linked to access to firearms.
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“If that’s not terrorism, I don’t know what is,” McDonald told CNN, conceding “there is no playbook about how to prosecute a school shooting.”
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“But you probably don’t even need to see that to know how terrifying it is to be in close proximity of another student shooting and killing fellow students. I mean, it’s terror,” she said.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ing-prosecutor-explains-rare-terrorism-charge
Of course it is scary and traumatic. There is no doubt about that. But we have had many cases of mentally disturbed and pharmaceutically drugged people shooting multiple people. They are not charged with terrorism.
The standard definition of terrorism:
Terrorism: the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.
What were the “political, social, or ideological objectives” in this case? Usually terrorism is associated with war in the minds of the terrorists. What war did the perp believe they were fighting?