I am wondering how this will play out with the revelations today that the shooter might have been a self-hating gay man. Makes it harder to peg this event as externally-driven and more like an internal unrest event. That is, this event might have more in common, sociologically, with Dylan Root's shooting of Black Christians than it does with the 911 attack.
This is relevant because Donald Trump is trying to paint this as a terrorist attack like 911. That is, a political statement made by a foreign entity (AQ in the case of 911 and ISIS here) and not a internal instability event like a rampage killing or a riot. (I think we can all agree that the sheer scale of the carnage moves it beyond the category of mass murder--e.g. family annihilators or serial killers).
On the other hand the response of president Obama and Hillary Clinton implies this is a rampage killing in the vein of Virginia Tech in 2007 (33 dead); Sandy Hook in 2012 (28 dead); Luby's massacre in 1991 (24 dead) and the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre in 1984 (22 dead).
So how do folks here see this event? Is it a terrorist attack like 911, Oklahoma city, Bath or Wall Street? Is it a rampage (perhaps partially politically motivated like Dylan Root's or Elliot Roger's rampage)?
This is relevant because Donald Trump is trying to paint this as a terrorist attack like 911. That is, a political statement made by a foreign entity (AQ in the case of 911 and ISIS here) and not a internal instability event like a rampage killing or a riot. (I think we can all agree that the sheer scale of the carnage moves it beyond the category of mass murder--e.g. family annihilators or serial killers).
On the other hand the response of president Obama and Hillary Clinton implies this is a rampage killing in the vein of Virginia Tech in 2007 (33 dead); Sandy Hook in 2012 (28 dead); Luby's massacre in 1991 (24 dead) and the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre in 1984 (22 dead).
So how do folks here see this event? Is it a terrorist attack like 911, Oklahoma city, Bath or Wall Street? Is it a rampage (perhaps partially politically motivated like Dylan Root's or Elliot Roger's rampage)?