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Related: About this forumNRA objects to the word "shootings" being used when people get shot
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nra-news-blames-media-for-calling-gun-violence-shootings/When someone commits a murder, it used to be a murder right? Raso, the only semiotician in the history of the world to dead lift 600 lbs says. Now they race to label anything with a gun as a shooting. Because they know how much attention theyre going to get with that word. ...
He goes on: Think about the difference between a shooting and a murder. In one you have shooter, and in the other one a murderer.
He goes on: Think about the difference between a shooting and a murder. In one you have shooter, and in the other one a murderer.
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NRA objects to the word "shootings" being used when people get shot (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Jun 2014
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msongs
(67,360 posts)1. lte's compromise : gun owning murderer shoots victim nt
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. I prefer people not getting shot
I'm funny that way.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)3. What are we supposed to call them? Ticklings? nt
MiniMe
(21,709 posts)4. I think that would tickled to death
in case you couldn't tell
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)5. murder by projectile encounter.
is that sanitized enough?
These delicate flowers. More scared than a jittery cat. No wonder they all need to walk around armed to the gills. It must be very scary inside a gunner's head.
hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)6. so "yet another NRA-sponsored & enabled brutally violent preventable horror show" resulting in mass
DEATH"...
Ok, LaPierre (and his enabling idiots), "GOT IT".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,741 posts)7. How about harmfull discharge of arms?
Fucking idiots.