Were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold(Columbine Shooters) terrorists?

Would they be considered terrorists even though they were just teenagers when they commited that awful crime?

Were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold(Columbine Shooters) terrorists?
No. Terrorism is not just violence... it is violence with the intent to promote a social or political cause.





I think one reason for the school shootings is that the Democratic Party has marginalized and abandoned poor and working class whites. There is no political or social cause these kids can belong to. They are caught between the liberal academic left and the racism of black "civil rights" politics.
Reply:I wasn't aware that terrorism was age-defined.





I wouldn't call them terrorists whatever age they were. They weren't trying to get a message across as far as I can recall. They were just killing people. Their precise motives are obscure.
Reply:that's a tough one. i usually think terrorists make ultimatums i.e. "you better meet our demands or else we will unleash violence/pain on you" ... did those teens make demands?? i cant remember i think it was a decade or so ago





by contrast i think the middle east terrorists we see on tv and in newsweek magazine do have demands like "america, stop giving money to israel" blah blah but i dont know how they expect some of their demands to be met e.g. "israel, stop existing" it's absurd and tragic
Reply:They were that day, murdering heartless terrorists who deserved their fate.
Reply:clearly they were terrorists. or...





here is the only issue: terrorism is usually defined as having some sort of purpose (i.e., the freeing of prisoners, the capitulation of a country in a war). did they have a purpose? or was it just a massacre?





i think one could at least loosely define them as terrorists





this is just my opinion





aw, c'mon, a plague! i'm no democrat certainly, but to blame them? it would be like blaming the republicans. don't you remember being builied in school? maybe you weren't. but if it happens relentlessly, one feels disenfranchised - and if one is just a teenager, he/she won't understand those feelings.


BUT, of course, there are other reasons, many of them. but politics?well.....i don't know, maybe.
Reply:Yes, they were. They used extremely violent tactics to scare people and try to get their message across. That's how terrorists operate.

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