• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Can’t put my finger on it, but I feel we have a word for fatally shooting people.

    I guess we’re avoiding the word gun in titles now…

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      3 months ago

      What term would you use that’s more accurate than ‘fatally shoots’? The term ‘murdered’ would simply obfuscate the method of killing.

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        3 months ago

        No but if could have legal consequences. Murder is used both colloquially and legally, and accusing someone of being a murderer or committing murder if they have not been found guilty at trial could be considered, when issued by a news agency of any kind especially, as libel. That’s why you see news agencies using the word “allegedly” all the time. Because legally speaking, they are innocent until proven guilty, even if they were caught red-handed.

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          3 months ago

          Defending against a knife is a tad “easier” than being peng’d to death. Also there is that second amendment those Americans really really love. I don’t see any amendment regarding knives.

    • JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPM
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      3 months ago

      You unable to see the word “shoot” in the title? I doubt it was a blow dart…erm… oh wait. That’s a gun too!

      I don’t think it was a crossbow, or long bow, or a water…damn it. Keep coming back to “gun”.

      If you can’t discern that it’s a gun from the title, there’s not much to do.

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          3 months ago

          You inject with a syringe but maybe their mind went there since that’s referred to as a shot. I guess they could also assume someone forced them to drink 1.5oz of liquor and died from it. Maybe it’s because I’m American but when I hear “fatally shot” only one instrument comes to mind.