[monday]

"but his purpose here wasn't to "terrorize" the populace, it was just to get back at someone who "terrorized" him with an obscene gesture."

lol... your priorities are all screwed up. What is more terrorizing, chasing, trying to run someone off the road, and honking your horn trying to get them to stop so you can fight them, and shooting at them with a cross bow? or an obscene gesture? People with road rage terrorize everyone they share the road with. I think the charge of 'terroristic act' is perfectly appropriate.

[Mad Dawg]

I think the charge of 'terroristic act' is perfectly appropriate.

Here's why I disagree. If one-on-one violence, even if it inadvertently threatens the safety of others, is called terroristic, what shall we call acts which are assymetrical, one (or few) on many, and designed precisely to obstruct commerce and limit the exercise of freedoms by making people afraid?

We already have aggravated assault for acts like the one described. The problem with language inflation is that it impoverishes those who rely on language, which would be most of us ... okay, except democrats.