Based on your reading assignment, in your main discussion post, and a review of the Seattle Times report on James von Brunn (attached), who walked into the U.S. Holocaust Museum and opened fire. What type of terrorist is von Brunn?

Identify the decision that von Brunn may have made to engage in a terrorist act that required some degree of cognitive restructuring. The extensive planning needed and the horrifying nature of terrorism that required that one find a way of setting aside one’s typical standards of behavior and justifying the violence that results.