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I know you're not trying to minimise what's happened. When officials come out and say it's not terrorist related because the perpetrator was not affiliated with a terrorist organisation is wrong. The idea of terrorism is to install fear in the public. That is what he has achieved.
Perhaps he achieved that, but his intention is the distinction between terrorism/other in my opinion
Terrorism is used to scare the general population, it's to make people lose trust in government ability to protect them, iow, it destabilises the power base of a country , making it vulnerable to other attack by adversaries .
a psycho getting his rocks off by defying authority and scaring people is not terrorism