What Bernd think of terrorism. Or moar liek "terrorism", I would rather call it. And this is the aspect I'm asking Bernd's opinion.
These days they label acts of violence terrorism, these lone gunmen doing attacks on civilian targets, school, mall, movie theater, mosque shooters and such, these "domestic terrorists".
My problem is with the categorization, the label of terrorism. Generally terrorists apply overwhelming fear (terror) to get what they want. They don't have to be violent per se, but classical terrorist organizations do violent things. Elected governments also can be terrorists by simply applying fear onto the population, scare them with some looming threat to make them do something, or make them agree with something, enacting a law or some such.
But these guys, these shooters, aren't force people to do anything, just go out and try to kill people. They don't and can't repeat their acts, and declare "we're going to go on until you give in". I'm not even sure anyone gets really scared. It rather seems their acts used by govts. to scare people into agreeing to restrictions.