Originally Posted by
macdo
Well, yesterday I would not have believed it possible, but it would appear that we have a suicide by the First Officer.
I've held off posting to this (largely) drivel until it was confirmed.
When you take 150 with you, the primary action is murder, not suicide.
We tend not even to consider cases where the motivation is more personal than political as 'terrorism' - but that is to make a serious category error. Terrorism can be personal as well as political. The subject in this article is school shootings, but I urge people to read it carefully; the points he makes are very perceptive:
How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings
Don't flinch from calling it what it is; this was a terrorist mass murder. The piece we're missing is the motive - and even if it turns out it isn't political, that doesn't diminish the terrorism.