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Terror is precisely what this is

I agree, that's a given. We're just trying to do a little deducting on our own re whether it's homegrown terrorism or part of the international terrorism we've been told to expect by extremist Islamists.

Home grown terrorists - would target government, politicians, LEOs, etc.
KKK/Nazi types - would target ethnic groups.
Snapped Nutball - lots of shots into a crowd, killing a bunch at once.
Serial Killer - Usually kills the same "type" of person, over and over again, like prostitutes, women who look similar.

This terrorist sniper fits none of these. The targets are varied, they are not government associated, and have no similarities.

We're just trying to do a little deducting on our own re whether it's homegrown terrorism or part of the international terrorism we've been told to expect by extremist Islamists.

I don't know how the government can have it both ways. They have big news conferences whenever they arrest a "terror cell", mostly nuts who rather like the notion of operating within the US by joining, however distantly, the Muslim terrorists. Witness Padilla, the shoe bomber, and that group out in Oregon.

Then when we ponder that such as a killer sniper on the lose as being possibly such a kook, we are tin foil suspects. I definitely think this shooter could very real be one of those kooks on a freelance terrorist job. I'm not yet convinced it's any nationwide terrorist attack or part of any organized mission of the Al Queda yet. But to speculate that this could be an nutty individual besmirched with the notion of being part of a great Jhiad is NOT out of the question.

The DC locale makes me very suspicious, however. It's also NOT out of the question that this could be the beginning of something much bigger.