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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Defining Terrorism

In my opinion, the individual shooting massacre people in the USA are equivalent to the "terrorist" suicide bombers in the Middle East. The USA's terrorist shooters use the weapon of choice in our country, the gun, and they act out the terrorism in the American way as the delusional independent super figure warrior further crazed with unbearable and unconscious anxiety. These people are the sole product of America, and that's hard to admit. Also it must be pointed out that there clearly is a threshold that the American media holds in order for the violent activity to reach national attention. For example most are unaware of the Alabama shooter from July 17 who goes into a bar and shoots 17 people. His victims did not die, but one must assume that many of the 17 are now debilitated for the rest of their lives. Last week there was a shooter in a mall in Tulsa who randomly killed 2. I know about this one because it involved an acquaintance's brother. This man was a perfectly fine decent human being and he was randomly killed while shopping in a mall.

AlterNet: Understanding the Colorado Shooting: Terrorism, Politics, Mental Illness and the Superhero Complex

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