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slackmaster
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Wed Aug-16-06 06:17 PM
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Edited on Wed Aug-16-06 06:28 PM by slackmaster
But the equivalent in firearms would be "hit by a bullet" not "shot by a gun".
RKBA-heads say that people are killed "by a gun". And EVERYBODY SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN.
More straw flying. I never said I didn't understand what the OP meant, only that his usage doesn't fit well with my understanding of common US English. It would sound very sloppy to me if it appeared as a headline for a newspaper article, and I would probably take the time to write an LTTE about it.
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