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To: Tax-chick

'Definition' in which dictionary? What of murder and manslughter? These have 'technical' legalistic definitions and the use of homicide is hyperbolic and misleadingly precise. It is typical anti-gun hysteria.


12 posted on 01/01/2005 6:26:06 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: dhuffman@awod.com
'Definition' in which dictionary? What of murder and manslughter? These have 'technical' legalistic definitions and the use of homicide is hyperbolic and misleadingly precise. It is typical anti-gun hysteria.

You are sounding like those who complained over the word niggardly.

13 posted on 01/01/2005 6:30:16 AM PST by PFC
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

Webster's unabridged. Homicide: "the killing of one human being by another." Latin roots, Homo- (man) and -cide (kill).

I think "manslughter" would be when a man slugs his daughter? Or maybe the opposite, daughter slugs man.


14 posted on 01/01/2005 6:58:24 AM PST by Tax-chick (To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just.)
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