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“Possible. But I’ll be shocked if it is an Islamic terrorist attack. Doesn’t fit the profile. A “martyr” would have gone into freshman history with 200 students and blown themselves up. Walking around killing people doesn’t fit the radical islamic jihadist pattern”

I agree especially if he killed himself. If he was killed by law enforcement I would open the door to a terrorist attack.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

But this does fit the pattern of freelancers...those who decide that their life is miserable and decide to go out in a blaze of glory. They aren’t all muslim, but the numbers of those unaffiliated with other terror groups who want to go out in this type of glory are going up.