Markers of An Insurgency

[selil]

That key element is missing with the school shooters - they tend to be self-initiated and self-directed. Yes, there are lessons to be learned, each from the other, but they remain two very distinct types of violent criminal action.

So most school shooters are closer to anarchists than terrorists? I can understand the difference in the types of crimes and willingly concede that terrorist gets tacked on (to choose your crime) so you get funding. I still wonder if we're splitting it to fine and trying to make foreign terrorism (insurgency) fit the domestic terrorism (insurgency) model or v a v. Oklahoma City was a self directed, self initiated low dollar highly asymmetric domestic terrorist event. Could it be that high violence prone events like Columbine and Virginia Tech have been relegated to separate categories because of their novelty? Similarly the background noise of regular school violence doesn't get the attention it should due to it's frequency?