"terrorist" usually means an act done in furtherance of a social goal; people killed for a cause. Hard to articulate a cause for many of the school shootings.

"terrorist" usually means an act done in furtherance of a social goal; people killed for a cause. Hard to articulate a cause for many of the school shootings. Of course, sometime the perpetrators do articulate causes but no one pays much attention to that unless it happens to serve the agenda they're currently promoting.