[Judith Anne]

Condition: Critical, but stable, still in surgery.

And I agree, the shootings are related. I think it's terrorism, not home-grown.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Since it is achieving it's desired effect, i.e. TERROR in the minds of people in the Washington, D.C. and now increasingly around the US, it is, by definition, DE-FACTO TERRORISM.

Now the work to determine if it is a homegrown job or an overseas job. My suspicions tell me it is the latter, precisely because the national media won't even include this scenario in their trying to figure out a reason. Why not include the single most plausible explanation in our day and age for this? Why avoid it? Why lone nuts? Why racists? Why serial killers? Why not Islamist terrorists?