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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Someone that goes wild with a knife attacking members of the public, is terrorising them. Do you think the people being attacked were not frightened?

Therefore, by definition, it is a terrorist attack. No jumping to conclusions necessary, its a fact.

On a technicality yes, but... That is not what most people mean when they say "terrorist attack", it is not what the media means when it talks of terrorist attacks, and it is not the connotation of the term (which is vital) so for the sake of clarity, in my opinion, it should be avoided in the case of random rage-fuelled attacks that are not politically motivated.

As i said, we don't know if it was directly related to ISIS, but at a minimum, it is a copycat of similar ISIS inspired events.

There is absolutely no evidence at all of this? These sorts of attacks have been going on a Ince long before ISIS / Islamic terrorism and you could just as easily assume that it's a "copycat" of Columbine, or any number of similar mass attacks.

Are mentally disturbed people increasingly lashing out and attacking? Yes, potentially... I don't know the actual stats, it may just be that it sells papers these days do is being reported on a larger scale... But anyway, if it IS true that it's on the rise, what they are being inspired by is an atmosphere of chaos and violence that is being furthered and encouraged by PEOPLE and THE MEDIA.