For a very small subset of the population.

I mean it kind of is. with a manifesto and everything. the idea was to send fear through the action

There are many more-prolific killers who had manifestos and weren't charged with terrorism. That charge is being selectively applied here for pretty obvious reasons.

But the intent of 5e murder wasn’t to strike terror. Well, it did strike terror into CEOs of health insurance companies. It doesn’t feel like that alone would meet the bar.

I guess US and western foreign policy is terrorism then.

We just put “counter” in front of “terrorism”