A patient is brought into the emergency department with gunshot wounds inflicted by a former employee who returned to his place of employment and started shooting those in the office. The nurse realizes this patient experienced:
1. Domestic terrorism.
2. International terrorism.
3. Anger toward the federal government.
4. Anger in order to intimidate a segment of the population to further a political view.
Domestic terrorism.
Rationale: Domestic terrorism describes a group or an individual operating out of the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction, and the activity is directed against the U.S. government or the U.S. population. Domestic terrorism can be caused by a group or by a lone individual. The patient was wounded by a lone individual without foreign direction. In international terrorism, violence is used by a person or group that is foreign based and has a connection to a foreign power. There is no evidence to support that the former employee is angry toward the federal government or that the former employee was demonstrating anger in order to further a political view.
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