re: #13 Backwoods_Sleuth

The gender and religion of the attackers in the Paris atrocity are known. Not inferred, known.

In the case of the Colorado Springs attack, the gender of the suspect was known, and was mentioned. Of course. But since he didn’t have a gun that anybody saw, he couldn’t be called a gunman. He didn’t announce his religion if any.

In the one case, the news isn’t giving out all sorts of details they don’t have, about an attack that, happily, fizzled. Incompetence among terrorists is welcome, but is hardly big news. He’ll be caught, and under-sentenced.

In the other case, the news is giving out all sorts of details that they do have, about an attack that, unhappily, succeeded all too well. Effective execution among terrorists is unwelcome, and it is big news when it reaches the scale of what we saw today. The killers may or may not be caught. Since France doesn’t have a death penalty, they too will be under-sentenced. So the two cases have a little in common: both are terrorism, and in both cases, the authorities will let the offender(s) off easier than they should.