American Terrorist Mass Shootings Have to End

This is the only form of terrorism that is likely to impact my life and yours

Walter Rhein
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
7 min readOct 27, 2023

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The word “mass shooter” has become so normalized that it no longer means anything. We need to start calling them terrorists. They’re TERRORISTS! We allow terrorists to do whatever they want in the United States.

They have all the rights and power. We don’t.

Forget about the border. Forget about foreign conflict. Forget about everything. The people you should be worried about are the homegrown terrorists who are allowed to hunt your children with impunity.

It happens because we allow it to happen.

All that money we spend on the military is completely wasted.

All the money we spend on the police is completely wasted.

Every morning we have to wake up to another news report about completely innocent people getting brutally cut to pieces in a hail of bullets. Then the media makes a celebrity of the shooter and politicians sternly lecture us that “Now is not the time to discuss this.”

We hold terrorist child murderers up for worship.

Mass shootings are terrorism. This is American terrorism. I’m sick of living in a society where terrorists have…

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Walter Rhein
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

10+ years experience as a certified English and Physics teacher. 20+ years of experience as an editor, journalist, blogger and novelist. WalterRhein@gmail.com