We were taught that you can't use the word being defined in it's definition.  Dictionary.com is a glass of water in the mother's milk of the English language.  A tiger in your tent may terrorize you, but he is certainly no terrorist.   Terrorism has a political motivation.  My old political science professor, God give peace to his soul, defined terrorism as:  "propaganda of the deed".  

A gang of out of control guns, sneaking from their guns safes at night, may be terrorizing a neighborhood but they are no more terrorists than the tiger in your tent.  Let's reduce the stigma against guns within the liberalati and come up with some reasonable form of Bad Guy control.