09-24-2016, 02:54 PM
What I'm saying, MS, is that witnesses at the mall described the shooter as teens or early 20s, Hispanic or white, and that U.S. authorities have arrested Americans of all colors for terrorist-related crimes. Most of them were radicalized or became sympathizers via internet rhetoric and propaganda, which has no physical or ethnic boundaries.
So, my point is, even if the shooter is not of Middle Eastern descent, terrorism cannot definitively be ruled out at this time. People of Middle Eastern descent are not the only ones, by a long shot, committing or plotting to commit mass murder and terrorist attacks in our country.
And, no, I'm not denying that people of Middle Eastern descent are among those committing or plotting to commit mass murder and terrorist attacks in our country; there surely are, likely more than any other demographic.
So, my point is, even if the shooter is not of Middle Eastern descent, terrorism cannot definitively be ruled out at this time. People of Middle Eastern descent are not the only ones, by a long shot, committing or plotting to commit mass murder and terrorist attacks in our country.
And, no, I'm not denying that people of Middle Eastern descent are among those committing or plotting to commit mass murder and terrorist attacks in our country; there surely are, likely more than any other demographic.