[Miss Marple]

I was listening, and I also believe I heard him call this a "random act."

Correct me if I am wrong, but this seemed to be pretty intentional, and if the victims were randomly chosen, then aren't we back to terrorism?

[jimbo123]

Bloomberg is doing his best David Dinkins imitation today.

[Republican Red]

Fox was interviewing Councilman McMahon from Statin Island that witnessed the incident and said it was NOT a random act. He thought the shooter was specifically targeting someone. I assume "someone" is Councilman Davis.

[HairOfTheDog]

Correct me if I am wrong, but this seemed to be pretty intentional, and if the victims were randomly chosen, then aren't we back to terrorism?

Right.... if it were random, it wouldn't have been targeted at city officials... This was somebody's personal issue, and not likely a random one.

I think the problem is that the definition of terrorism means "Muslims" and "random" or "isolated" means "not on Al Quada's direct payroll" and we get caught up in semantics. There are plenty of criminal acts that can be committed to further plenty of political agendas that have nothing to do with the middle east. Muslims do not have a 'lock' on bad public deeds in the name of politics, but our vocabulary has not caught up to the new world.