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School Shootings and State Terrorism
August 18,2018thegrassandthegunsEdit "School Shootings and State Terrorism"
Why school shootings in the US are perceived as sudden and heinous acts instead of deliberate acts of domestic terrorism is a mystery to me. It is obvious that the actions of the Unabomber resulted from mental illness and that the actions of the executers of Columbine, Sandy Hook, and other mass murders were orchestrated with premeditative thought as direction. The perpetrators did not wake up one morning and suddenly start shooting.
Mental illness and availability of guns in the US have a great deal to do with these incidents. The media helps the perpetrators to feed off the buzz of excitement and fame from each act. These acts are not isolated incidents. The perpetrators wish to become famous. Fame has never been a motivating factor for most acts of terrorism, which is what school shooters have in common with serial killers. They resemble the Son of Sam and Ted Bundy more so than the Oklahoma City bomber.
Terrorism can be a direct response to government policy or created by militias. Acts of terrorism exist across the political spectrum. Logically, an attack on mosques or synagogues, fire-bombing of abortion clinics, raids of banks for political motivations, targeted shootings, and attacks on women, gay people, and ethnic minorities including representative groups such as NAACP or Black Lives Matter should be considered acts of terrorism.
The state acts with terrorism as well. The Human Ecology Fund by the CIA and Project MK Ultra 500 were acts of terrorism by the US government against civilians, along with COINTELPRO against peace activists. The acts of assassination against Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were backed by the CIA, and were also acts of terrorism by the US government. There are many others.