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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by onewaystreet on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:48PM (#10583839)
Mass murder and terrorism are not the same thing. Terrorism requires some political objective. The only the Charleston church shooting would meet that definition.
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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by tareqak on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:26PM (#10585049)
Most mass murderers' manifestos are political in nature. Whether anyone pays attention or remembers is pretty much the defining characteristic between calling one event mass murder versus calling it terrorism.
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