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Finally some common sense. The author makes excellent and obvious points...that all of us continue to ignore.

They're not 'shooters.' That's because that term is not descriptive of the heinous and evil act that they have committed. THEY ARE MURDERERS! If they took a public bus to the murder scene, would we call them 'busers?' Should we call those rapists who use duck tape to commit their crime 'tapers?' We call them rapists because it clearly communicates that they have committed a heinous CRIME. Get it?

1 posted on 03/02/2018 7:46:47 AM PST by ma_che62
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Don’t you just enjoy when the media prints the murderers name especially illegal immigrant perps with a three name title including jr, the third, the second to give them some superiority and above all others importance. The media is truly scum


2 posted on 03/02/2018 7:51:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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Leftists _always_ fixate on “shooter”, “gun”, “shooting”, “firearms deaths”, etc - limiting the discussion to “if we get rid of guns, we’ll end shootings” while completely ignoring any other comparable fatalities as though they’re irrelevant precisely because guns weren’t involved.

Control the language, control the thought. See Appendix to _1984_.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 7:52:24 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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Both and more, and so what. I believe the term being used was SCHOOL shooter.


4 posted on 03/02/2018 7:54:06 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: ma_che62

The Democrats are masters of semantics. Remember Bill Clinton’s “Define is”.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 7:58:43 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: ma_che62

I’ll say it again, the most dangerous weapon is an assaultive attitude and intent.

Michael Brown was NOT unarmed.


6 posted on 03/02/2018 8:03:00 AM PST by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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On the subject of "words matter", it really bother me when someone says or writes:

"The government has the right to [Insert Specific Violation of the Constitution HERE].

Where the People are concerned, the government does not have rights, it has powers.

Using the word "right" instead of the word "power" is nothing but an attempt to soften the perceived impact of whatever Constitutional atrocity the speaker/writer is advocating.

7 posted on 03/02/2018 8:07:43 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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I’ve posted before, this is intentional. A hunter who goes out for a deer is a “shooter”, and the more the conflate the two the better for their nefarious purposes.


8 posted on 03/02/2018 8:08:26 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: ma_che62

very good point.


10 posted on 03/02/2018 8:14:59 AM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: ma_che62

And a social justice-made disaster.


11 posted on 03/02/2018 8:17:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: ma_che62

Great point.


12 posted on 03/02/2018 8:18:56 AM PST by Theophilus (Repent)
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Agreed!
Don’t let the beast choose the words we use.


13 posted on 03/02/2018 8:21:48 AM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: ma_che62

They do the same thing with the concept of drug “overdose”. In my mind an “overdose” is either self-administered (aka suicide) or administered by an associate (aka murder).


16 posted on 03/02/2018 9:23:13 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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Maybe they ought to change the nomenclature from “Active Shooter” to “Active Murderer”......I’ve been a very active shooter and never aimed at another person except in self defense.....old hunting stories about idiots in the field.....


17 posted on 03/02/2018 10:18:25 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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