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03-30-2013, 06:47 PM
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why always gunman?
I am really tired of the media practice of saying gunman anytime
a firearm is used in a crime.
they wouldnt call anyone who used a knife a knifeman would they?
they wouldnt call anyone who used a bat, batman would they?
ok rant button off
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03-30-2013, 07:48 PM
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Then, there's "gun moll."
Can't forget the ladies.
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03-30-2013, 10:53 PM
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"blunt instrument man" -- kind of has a ring to it........
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03-31-2013, 12:23 AM
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It's a media trope, shorthand for "murderous killer" applied indiscriminately to any "random" shooter, as opposed to a purposeful shooter, such as an armed robber, selective killer, an assassin, spouse-killer defying restraining order, or etc., usually preceded by the adjective "lone", as in, for those of you who may be syntactically challenged, "lone gunman" ... This, an enhancing and dramatizing phrase, the image of a dark killer, borrowing from western movies and such --- think Clint Eastwood's character in Pale Rider. The Newtown shooter, Alan Lanza, might well have been characterized as a "lone gunman", although I don't recall him as having been referred to as such, probably because the ghoulish media began spouting out "facts" before they actually had any, and were subsequently (inadequately) embarrassed by their collective errors and inaccuracies.
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I am really tired of the media practice of saying gunman anytime a firearm is used in a crime.
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I agree. You might add "police chase" to the now longer list. The first thing I think of is why is is not more accurately called a scumbag chase.
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Hmm...was Sgt. Alvin York, MH, a "lone gunman"?
Maybe the Germans thought so.
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Oops. I forgot "hatchet man." Haven't heard that one in awhile.
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"Pistolero" is too yesterday, and "Firearms Guy" is too cartoonish. We're left with "Gunman" by default.
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04-01-2013, 02:10 AM
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You are right
'Gunperson' is more proper nowadays.
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Gunslinger?
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