5th person dies after shooting at mall north of Seattle

PJ_Soul

rgambs said:

lukin2006 said:

So authorities are not ruling out that this is another terror attack.

Of course it's a terror attack! The only people who question that are the folks who wear american flag apparel, they think it's only terrorism if it's perpetrated by a Muslim. Mass shootings are acts or terrorism, even if the perpetrator is a skinny white kid with a bowl cut.

I definitely wouldn't label it as a terrorist attack. I believe a terrorist attack needs to be politically motivated. That's what makes terrorism terrorism. This guy was apparently a jilted lover or something along those lines (his religion seems irrelevant).

brianlux

PJ_Soul said:

brianlux said:

Some how I keep thinking if this was some other parts of Washington State I know or been through I would at least a little less surprised. Or some other razy part of the world. But Burlington- jeez, Burlington? It's hard to picture this kind of thing happening there. Has Northern Washington State changed that much since the mid 90's? Man...

It's still the same. It's not Burlington's fault.

Good to know. That's a nice part of the world. Seems odd when people so fortunate to live in a place like that go off the deep end. Now it this were, say, Forks, WA I might not be surprised. When I live in Sequim (pronounced squim) people used to talk about how high the murder rate was there because it was very economically depressed and it rained all the time and people sometimes went nuts.