B19 wrote:
Terrorism is always news, even if the killer is white and born in America.
Mass murder is always news. And its news whether the mass murder (aka "spree killing") was done in the name of a cause, or if it was not done in the name of a cause.
A) Its not "terrorism" unless its done for a political cause. Timothy McViegh was a White non Muslim guy, but no one denies that his bombing of Oklahoma City was "Terrorism" (the worst ever domestic act of terrorism, and second only to 9-11 as the worst of any kind of terrorism on US soil).
B) Calling murder terrorism doesn't make the murder either better or worse. If you're murdered you're just as dead if you were killed in the name of cause, or not. The Las Vegas shooter wasn't a "terrorist" because (like the Columbine boys) he didn't do it in the name of any cause (as far as we know yet). The Central Park Van driver was a terrorist because he did it after self radicalizing to identifying with ISIS and proclaimed it to be in the name of Islam and ISIS. The Charleston South Carolina Church shooter picked his targets because of their race. So I would call him a terrorist, but this outwardly similar spree shooting in Texas so far doesn't seem to have been racially motivated. No poltical or creed based motive has come to light yet either. So we cant say yet whether or not it can be labeled "terrorism".