do you agree with FBI that the killing of 32 person in virginia tech was not a terrorist attack ?

Question

FBI says so because most probably the killer was not a muslim otherwise it would have been a terrorist act ?????

Answer 1

i dont believe it. its very possible that person could have been a terrorist, but maybe not. i dont know what is going on, but that shooting was crazy! i mean come on, whats next!?

Answer 2

Cho wasn't a terrorist, but a loner wacko. That would be true regardless of what religion he was. I think that even if he HAD said on a tape that he was doing it for Islam, the general public would still see it as a mental health issue rather than a terrorist attack. There's a somewhat similar case being tried now in Seattle ... a couple of years ago, Navid Haq (a Muslim) shot up a Jewish community center, killing one woman and wounding five others. As with Cho, the underlying issue behind Haq's attack seems to be mental health rather than religion or terrorism.

Answer 3

Doesn't matter what religion the killer was. He was a lone gunman.

Look at every single other killing rampage at a school in the U.S. With the exception of Columbine, where there were two shooters, it has always turned out to be a lone, insane gunman with a specific grudge. Like the guy who shot the Amish kids had some weird thing against the Amish...same goes for killing rampages in post offices, factories and places of business. Always a lone lunatic, usually an ex-employee.

Answer 4

Use Bush's BS theory. If we sent 20,000 more troops to Iraq doubt if this would have been prevented, so it could not have been foreign terrorist act. Some very unbalanced person with good copycat memory. Think the first modern day radium shooting happen in Virginia.

Answer 5

Let me tell you a little story.

My friends in Sacramento, CA were shot and killed by a Burns Security employee days before the 9/11 attacks in New York/Pennsylvania. Joe Ferguson, whom my husband and I knew and worked with shot and killed Nikolai Popovich, Marsha Jackson, Nina Susu and two others. Nick and Marsha were two of our closest friends and my husband personally saved Nick's wife from being victim number 6.

Joe was white and strapped a 9mm to his right hand and a semi automatic on his left hand with duct tape. Any mass murderer is a terrorist, plain and simple. Don't look at the color of their skin to see if they will kill people at random.

Any attack like this on our friends, fellow citizens and coworkers constitutes terrorism. I've lived through it personally.

Heather

Answer 6

Terrorists would likely strike on a larger scale.
Don't get me wrong, 30 people is a lot of innocent victims, but they would go for more.

Answer 7

Terrorism:
is defined by the US Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
Obviously, the gunman was using violence to create fear. What were his objectives? Who knows. It's terrorism in my book.

Answer 8

sounds like a deranged person to me--perhaps a student or former student?

. Terrorists don't ususally "pick out" their victims one-by-one do they? They like to get a whole bunch at once with bombs, etc.

Answer 9

I would suggest, and rightly so, that those students and faculty were, and still are pretty terrorized at the moment. Does that mean this action was politically or racially or religiously motivated? Who knows?

Answer 10

Not all muslims are terrorist. And they havent revealed any inoformation about the shooter so stop with all ur theories!