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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we call it what it is; killings. Not "shooting". Words are important folks, and define the debat
this guy killed all of these people, and tried to kill the rest.
Just like Rep Giffords was almost assassinated, not a victim of a "shooting".
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Not everyone shot was killed.
young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)The word 'shooting' is less criminal in the eyes of the populace. "Killing', on the other hand, which this definitely was, has far more meaning to the average person.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)we can do it
(12,189 posts)words do matter. Guns in the hands of loonies matter to those who have lost loved ones. How many people could this psycho have killed by strangling them, or stabbing them? Not so many, I don't think.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)What if the guy had thrown a bomb into the theater? Would you object to calling it a "bombing"?
And Kathy Giffords was SHOT. She most certainly WAS the victim of a SHOOTING.
Clyde39
(1,074 posts)One senses that this deranged person was trying to kill as many as he could. What I am outraged by is how easy it was for him to buy such lethal weapons. It would be nice if the NRA cared about this.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Plus, many many people were NOT killed, but wounded, by being shot.
I agree with you 100% that words matter, which is why "shooting" and "shooter" are 100% acceptable words to describe this horror.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)I don't think calling someone a mass murderer or killer downplays those who were wounded and survived. He tried to murder, to kill them, and didn't succeed.
He is a mass murderer. He is a killer.
young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)Shooting had three synonyms and killing had at least twenty.