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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Terrorism is defined by the US Code as being premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents
premeditated - check.
politically motivated violence - check.
against noncombatant targets - check.
subnational group - check.
She met every criteria possible to be a terrorist, I can only assume anyone arguing differently believes that there is a requirement to be non-white. The video shows she had a backpack, the video shows her trying to get to her targets, her tweets (after the fact) shows her intentions. This was a terrorist killed, unless you also believe someone draped in an ISIS flag running at the president with a backpack should be allowed to do so, then you shouldn't have a problem with her shooting. As unfortunate as it is.
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I by no means defend this woman nor MAGAs in general, but it is weird definition of terrorism. Act of terrorism is an act which main and usually only objective is to, well, terrorize public. It usually involves mass shooting or bombing, sometimes in spectacular fashion (jet crashing into a tower) and it doesn't have to be politically motivated. In fact, motives are irrelevant since terrorism is essentially a war tactic, that can be used to achieve different goals. What that woman was doing was a coup, treason, crime, whatever. But her goal was to change the election outcome, not to terrorize anyone. And again, I am not trying to defend her at all.