Are you new to English?

I could call you a penis but the definiton of a penis is completely subjective. Rarely anything is black/white.

I don't know if it is or isn't, but I would suggest that calling an act of violence "terrorism" suggests some sort of political motivation.

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You're calling something a "crime". How does it work in your brain that such accusation does not engage the legal definition of the crime? Also, there is a federal hate crime statute.

A man kills his wife and her friend
A man building a bomb to kill his boss, who lives alone, fucks up and takes out half his apartment building killing 6.
A woman kills her three children then herself.
A woman intends to murder 10 family members by putting mercury in Thanksgiving dinner but only kills 1.
A gang member sprays a front porch with automatic gunfire killing 4 non affiliated 18 year olds having a get together.

Are these all mass murderers?

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Let's say I am new to English.
If we're gonna be calling people mass murderers I'd like to know the criteria so I don't make a mistake

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What is it when a guy Obama knows from the neighborhood blows up a police station?

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Leave it to a woman to screw up Thanksgiving dinner.

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There it is!

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I'm starting a GoFundme in his name then

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It's because I don't live my life like I am a lawyer in a courtroom?

How about these phrases?
"Terrible crime"
"Justifiable crime"
"Victimless crime"
"Thought crime"
"Unforgivable crime"
"Crime against humanity"

Many of those aren't legal types of crimes either.

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Pretty sure "pallin around with terrorists" is a phrase I heard once or twice.

Doesn't the term "mass murderer" suggest a certain type of killer? And it's not a guy who hacks up his family and commits suicide, although that guy has certainly committed a mass murder.

But hey, what do I know? I argued that it was more appropriate to call a guy who was 25 years 345 days old "26" than "25" and most of the board disagreed with me.

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well you already have a definition in mind. go ahead with that one. or check with JLN that the one in your head can be used in a courtroom.

who the fuck cares

Something to ponder. If Juice and Darko dug their heels in on the opposite side of an issue, how fast would the thread surpass the DiCaro thread in pages?

In general you are safe if these criteria are met:
1) Kills or attempts to kill multiple people.
2) No real motive against the specific people targeted.
3) Planning and care taken prior to the incident.
4) Done on purpose.
5) Not in an official capacity as military or law enforcement and/or self defense.

Now, that won't get all of them, but if you are concerned about making a mistake you can use that list to figure it out if you can say it without making a mistake.

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I think DS will tap out relatively quickly. It goes three pages, and then DS gets a call for a pilot light job that pays time and half plus travel time.

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What's a "real motive"? Are there "unreal motives"? "Fake motives"? "a number multiplied by itself which yields negative one motives"?

the same people insisting this is a terrorist attack will refuse to call BLM a terror group. its not about using the word correctly, its about taking a side.

A book I read broke down the difference between types of killers.

Serial Killers are your Ted Bundy types who kill multiple people usually one at a time and are your classic sociopath.

Mass Murderers are your Pol Pots and Stalins who kill large numbers of people at one time through state or organized killings or executions.

Spree Killers are your typical school shooters who kill large numbers of people usually occurring over one day.

You could argue the Austin bomber was a serial killer. The DC snipers were classified as serial killers due to the lack of reasons behind it and the cause and manner of multiple deaths spread out. Serial killers have different weapon choices. Bombing could just be this serial killer's MO.

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You're the worst.

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I learned it by watching YOU.

MANY prefer arguing with BRick.

Seriously though, who cares if I used a superfluous word that doesn't change anything that I said? What was the point of that reply?

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That's because BRick can't close like I can.

Wouldn't that describe you? Are you not liberal today? From the Polish to people of color no one here focuses more on ethnic groups than you. Sad!

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GO BEARS!!!

Because you seem to have created two separate classes of motive, one "real" which leaves the commission of certain crimes as JUST those crimes, and one "anti-Real", which doesn't adequately justify the commission of the underlying crime, and thus qualifies as terrorism.

I think that's dubious at best, but wasnted to know if you could define the classes you had created, or if they were superficial and arbitrary outs you left yourself in the case a set of facts applied to your rules would indicate terrorism where you didn't want it to. Now I know the latter is what you were doing.

What? What is anti-Real?

It was just an extra word that wasn't really needed. All I meant was that they weren't targeting a specific person or people based on some sort of connection to them that caused them to want them specifically to be the victims.

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Then you must not be allowed to drink coffee.