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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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Oh look a redditor.

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TIL reddit is a slur.

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no it isn’t? Spez though, now thats a slur.

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Whoa buddy. Language!

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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

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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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A bow isn’t a gun

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I didn’t say it was.

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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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Why does the tool matter? Could easily do it with a knife

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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.

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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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What else can you fatally shoot someone with if the title is trying to avoid blaming guns?

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A syringe?

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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.

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