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The El Paso attack was committed by a white supremacist terrorist. The Orlando massacre was committed by an Islamist terrorist. The San Bernardino attack was committed by an Islamist terrorist. The Charleston Church shooting was committed by a whites supremacist terrorist 1/
The Las Vegas massacre was committed by a psychopath. Motive was “unknown.” A symptom of these attacks, like all the others, is the accessibility to military grade hardware to the general public. This doesn’t explain murderous vectors of carnage pursued by the likes of 2/
Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, Tsarnaev brothers, Bruce Ivins, or Ramzi Yousef and numerous others. We need gun reform but again that’s a symptom. We need to not merely treat the symptoms. We need to cure the disease and the symptoms will resolve themselves. Radicalization 3/
fundamentalism, and extremism are the disease. Trump is one aspect of it. A symptom. Not the cause. How are these people being radicalized? What causes it? How do we recognize it? How can it be stopped? These are the questions we need to ask. /X
