re: #171 Odie Hugh Manatee

I hear what you are saying but while every shooting is terrorizing to those present, not every shooting is an act of terrorism. We need to wait and find out what his motives, if any, were. He could be nuts, he could be losing his house because of a gambling problem, he could be a political nutjob or whatever.

Let this unfold and make an assessment when more facts are in.

I understand what you are saying & I appreciate how you say it - but the definition of terrorism that I use is - someone who causes terror - whether it be for political reasons, idealism reasons or because he had a fight with his mother, wife, child this morning or for any of the reasons you mention.

The pundits are saying this was well planned & executed, it wasn’t something that happened because of convenience/access/a moment in time. I don’t know how else to describe it other than terrorism.

Whatever - it is horrendous - death toll could well be more than ours in Tasmania which ushered in our current gun control laws. I’ll just go away for a while and contemplate privately what on earth is happening in our world.