We certainly can't have a domestic terrorist like him inside our borders.  We don't want people like him walking our streets, or even in our prisons where our incompetent guards would probably let him escape or, at the very least, he would corrupt the nicer, more civilized kinds of criminals that we keep.

No, our justice system can't handle him.  We need to send him to some other country with a better, fairer justice system.  America's isn't strong enough...

...or so we've been told.

Sometimes I get the notion that former Pres. G.W. Bush and the Neo-cons greatly de-sensitized us to the term "terrorist."

It's strange, because the goal of the original deluge of this word in speeches and in the media was of course riddled with irony in the nature of its political agenda behind it. Americans of all types now seem to be taking this word and running with it for many (inaccurate) explanations to things that are otherwise a mystery, or completely random.

 And that's where I think Tiller's slaying comes into play: this murder was not an act of terrorism, but rather, a targeted assassination. Sure, the killer had a political desire to see the nation's perspective on abortion change, but he HAD to know one dead abortion doc wouldn't change it. Perhaps this slaying was nothing more than the killer's frustration at the futility of his efforts. At any rate, I highly doubt the killer had any grand political goal as the outcome of his actions, and I would not label it as a terrorist act. He did, however, target an individual to murder because that individual had different viewpoints, opinions and practices, which prompts me to believe this was more an assassination than terrorism.

 That's not to say your larger point of whether this will have greater social repercussions for his demographic (i.e., old white guys) is anything but right on the mark. Racial profiling will not result from this, but I'm very interested to see if a hint of religious profiling creeps into the national dialogue when discussing this topic.