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Uncut with John McCaa: What's in a name

In our pursuit of answers, we seem to have lost sight of the victims.

In our excitement over the death of the Austin bomber, we have rushed headlong into yet another debate over labels… was he or was he not a terrorist?

Perhaps only the release of Mark Conditt's 25-minute phone "confession" can fully answer that.

We know just like Timothy McVeigh or Charleston Church shooter Dylan Roof, Conditt was not sorry.

What we do not know is why he did it…which is important to know to intervene with others who might be headed down the same path. And even that may not give us a legal answer.

Remember the dispute about the Fort Hood shooting being labeled workplace violence and not terrorism?

The trouble with any argument over the terrorist label lately is...it's little more than another verbal proxy war between the left and right.

Should it be based on an intent to use violence to advance a political agenda?...or the result of their actions. In this case, spread of fear and panic over an entire city?

And how do we account for those who kill believing life has no meaning or purpose.

In our pursuit of answers, we seem to have lost sight of the victims.

In this case, two good men died.

For them and their families, the label applied to the man who did it... is immaterial.

They will struggle now with promise unfulfilled, an empty seat at the family table, a missing smile at Christmas…and with the one thing on which we should all be focused for now rather than labels: why?

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