Huh?
Precisely.
No problem can be solved without acknowledging that a problem exists.
Neither does giving it another name so it gets statistically classified as something that it clearly isn't (SEE: Workplace Violence).
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...murders-termed-workplace-violence-by-u-s.html
What happens after it's declared? Does America get some sort of superpower? Do the problem go away? Does it matter at this point? Is this a part of the "tell it like it is?" Who. The. ****. Cares what it's called.
The FBI probably has to go through hundreds and perhaps thousands of leads per day. Nobody is perfect. Is the solution to round them up and ship them out? Like the roundup of the Japanese in America and Japanese Americans happened during WWII, a mistake that was admitted by damn near everybody. That's the next step in public paranoia I'm referring to.
The goal of ISIS is to pit Christianity against Islam. If the average American is not particularly bright, what do you expect to be said over there, where the ONLY thing most people have is their religion. The US president is calling Islam a radical religion? This is not how you win a war which can only be won by rooting out the bad eggs and winning hearts and minds.
Besides, why can't we call out radical Christianity like the guy who shot up the abortion clinic last year, the guy who went into a Sikh temple 4 years ago and shot it up, Erik Rudolph and the Olympic park bombing, etc.?
Will this open up a conversation on controlling assault weapons? No. If you can't have an adult conversation about guns after 24 kids are murdered in school, we never will.
I'm done. I'm not discussing politics in the TaN anymore. No hockey and no politics.