How harshly is it even possible to treat someone? Especially when they're already dead. That's not the point. The point is the clear difference in the nature of these acts. The three "shooters" were acting out personal fantasies of some kind, and in this sense their acts were "crazy", that is done only to gratify the impulse, and with no idea of anything to follow.
The Boston bombers acted in concert, and walked away from the scene anonymously, resuming their innocuous seeming activities. They planned to do more, but were foiled by the video that ID'd them, which represents a miscalculation on their part. I say it was terrorism if there is such a thing, and there is.
“How harshly is it even possible to treat someone? Especially when they’re already dead. That’s not the point. The point is the clear difference in the nature of these acts. The three “shooters” were acting out personal fantasies of some kind, and in this sense their acts were “crazy”, that is done only to gratify the impulse, and with no idea of anything to follow.”
James Holmes and Jared Lee Loughner are very much alive.
And neither of the above mentioned shooters or the Columbine killers or Adam Lanza acted on impulse. Each of their attacks were methodically planned and we have no idea what they would have done if they had walked away and had to be hunted down.