Shooting Attacks or Terrorist Attacks?
Shooting Attacks or Terrorist Attacks?
They say, “with power comes responsibility”, in the context of authoritative power. But originally it was in the context of one’s ability which others did not have for its entirety or timely.
If you have a gun, you have power, to terrify and hence there is responsibility on you to know what it means to own a gun, because, as a Chinese saying goes, ‘you don’t own the sword, the sword owns you’.
Effective September 1st, a new law has been approved in Texas which allows reduction of free for handgun license from $140 to $40 only.
Moreover, there are campus carry laws which allow students to carry concealed weapons. There is open carry law which allows people to publically carry the guns.
These laws have enabled US to top the list of deadliest shooting harbors. The life in US seems to be very uncertain, one moment you go to bar, the moment you appear in news headline.
You think you’re going to house-of-God, to pray for next job, to thank Him, to ask forgiveness or to seek guidance, turns out you are dispatched directly to heavens.
In 2017 alone there have been more than 14 mass shooting terrorist attacks.
“Wait… what? Terrorist attacks? Isn’t a terrorist attack when it is done by a terrorist right?” A friend of mine said.
“And what exactly is a terrorist?” I asked with a nod.
“Well when there is a Muslim involved in it. It is a terrorist attack when a person shouts Allah u Akbar and blasts himself.” I expounded what seemed like is in mind but out of courtesy isn’t saying.
I received only surprised look, like something had hit in his mind, like a revelation.
“Perched in his suite at a high-rise hotel overlooking the Vegas Strip, a 64-year-old retiree with no real criminal history and no known affiliations with terror groups rained bullets down into a crowd at a country music festival Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.”
—Washington Post
We can see even the top news-writers have this stereotypical behavior.
What exactly is a terrorist attack?
Why does this happen?
A terrorist attack is the one in which someone, out of his rage over anything personal or impersonal, religious, political or psychological reasons behind, attacks other living beings.
In Texas, November 5, 2017 more than 26 people lost their lives in such terror attack.
The Las-Vegas Strip terrorist swallowed more than 50 people, and still it is a shooting incident.
The terrorist is David Patrick Kelley (Associated Press). But the media used the term ‘shooter’ instead of ‘terrorist’ because he wasn’t Muslim or from Middle east!
About two continents far from US soils, I can feel the pain of the families who lost their loved ones. Because I have seen such miserable conditions in my homeland as well. But we don’t filter attacks on basis of religion, we classify them as Murders or as Terrorist Attacks.
A murder is when one relative, friend or sibling kills another after property, opposite sex or money and when the killer’s instinct is not to terrify others or kill as many as possible, rather, just to take revenge, or to gain one of the above.
A terrorist attack is when someone kills another one on basis of a theory, no matter the killer is from which community, a killer is a terrorist.
This is exactly what United States needs to do. A killer is either a Murderer on basis of definition or a terrorist.
Terrorism needs to be dealt with, and there is no other option. There is no other way.
If we’ll continue classifying terrorism on basis of region (the terrorist is from Middle East e.g.) or on basis of religion (Terrorist is a Muslim though so-called) then we’ll have to bear such attacks even further in future.
A terrorist is a terrorist, no matter what the skin color, what the place of birth and what the religion is associated with him.
References
First we are humans, then we are what our papers tell us. An American, A Pakistani or A British.
They say, “with power comes responsibility”, in the context of authoritative power. But originally it was in the context of one’s ability which others did not have for its entirety or timely.
If you have a gun, you have power, to terrify and hence there is responsibility on you to know what it means to own a gun, because, as a Chinese saying goes, ‘you don’t own the sword, the sword owns you’.
 |
| Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP) |
Effective September 1st, a new law has been approved in Texas which allows reduction of free for handgun license from $140 to $40 only.
Moreover, there are campus carry laws which allow students to carry concealed weapons. There is open carry law which allows people to publically carry the guns.
These laws have enabled US to top the list of deadliest shooting harbors. The life in US seems to be very uncertain, one moment you go to bar, the moment you appear in news headline.
You think you’re going to house-of-God, to pray for next job, to thank Him, to ask forgiveness or to seek guidance, turns out you are dispatched directly to heavens.
 |
| Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP) |
“Wait… what? Terrorist attacks? Isn’t a terrorist attack when it is done by a terrorist right?” A friend of mine said.
“And what exactly is a terrorist?” I asked with a nod.
“Well when there is a Muslim involved in it. It is a terrorist attack when a person shouts Allah u Akbar and blasts himself.” I expounded what seemed like is in mind but out of courtesy isn’t saying.
I received only surprised look, like something had hit in his mind, like a revelation.
 |
| Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP) |
“Perched in his suite at a high-rise hotel overlooking the Vegas Strip, a 64-year-old retiree with no real criminal history and no known affiliations with terror groups rained bullets down into a crowd at a country music festival Sunday, killing at least 59 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.”
—Washington Post
We can see even the top news-writers have this stereotypical behavior.
What exactly is a terrorist attack?
Why does this happen?
A terrorist attack is the one in which someone, out of his rage over anything personal or impersonal, religious, political or psychological reasons behind, attacks other living beings.
In Texas, November 5, 2017 more than 26 people lost their lives in such terror attack.
The Las-Vegas Strip terrorist swallowed more than 50 people, and still it is a shooting incident.
The terrorist is David Patrick Kelley (Associated Press). But the media used the term ‘shooter’ instead of ‘terrorist’ because he wasn’t Muslim or from Middle east!
 |
| https://twitter.com/AP/status/927314329321558018 |
A murder is when one relative, friend or sibling kills another after property, opposite sex or money and when the killer’s instinct is not to terrify others or kill as many as possible, rather, just to take revenge, or to gain one of the above.
A terrorist attack is when someone kills another one on basis of a theory, no matter the killer is from which community, a killer is a terrorist.
This is exactly what United States needs to do. A killer is either a Murderer on basis of definition or a terrorist.
 |
| Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. (KSAT via AP) |
Terrorism needs to be dealt with, and there is no other option. There is no other way.
If we’ll continue classifying terrorism on basis of region (the terrorist is from Middle East e.g.) or on basis of religion (Terrorist is a Muslim though so-called) then we’ll have to bear such attacks even further in future.
A terrorist is a terrorist, no matter what the skin color, what the place of birth and what the religion is associated with him.
References
First we are humans, then we are what our papers tell us. An American, A Pakistani or A British.
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