• @RedditWanderer
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    -2917 days 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…

    • @skeezix
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      2017 days ago

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

      • @Etterra
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        -117 days 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.

        • macniel
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          617 days 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.

    • @JonsJavaOPM
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      1417 days 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          217 days 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              117 days ago

              Funny I recently went back after however long it’s been since reddit took a shit. Man the quality of the comments there is absolute shit. Seems like the only ones left are immature. So glad for Lemmy!

              • Steal Wool
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                016 days ago

                Yeah even the Buddhist subs that I used to peruse are just so full of garbage that I ended up not checking it any longer.

      • @RedditWanderer
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        017 days ago

        I’m not a redditor lol. It says reddit wanderer, as I have been wandering since the day RIF stopped working. I have not returned to reddit. Nice try with the ad hominem though

          • @RedditWanderer
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            116 days ago

            There’s really no need to get angry and attack people personally because you don’t like their opinion. My comment is extremely tame and you’re allowed to not agree.