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In reply to the discussion: I really hate the use of the term 'assassination' in regards to the Kirk murder... [View all]
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I really hate the use of the term 'assassination' in regards to the Kirk murder... [View all]
Wounded Bear
Yesterday
OP
I think that's because the CEO of an insurance company isn't technically a political figure.
ShazzieB
Yesterday
#38
True -- but he was overtly political in a way that a business executive usually is not.
ShazzieB
23 hrs ago
#49
Chaps my butt, too. Kennedy was assasinated, Ghandi was assasinated. Kirk was murdered.
marble falls
Yesterday
#3
How about "offed" to counterbalance the deification of this community college dropout?
GreenWave
Yesterday
#32
I would say he was a prominent person. And he was killed for political reasons.
forthemiddle
Yesterday
#37
To consider using that term is downright odd, isn't it? As alarming as it was hearing Trump claiming he's a "star"
Judi Lynn
Yesterday
#12
Assassination : 'The murder by sudden or secret attack of a prominent political leader'
speak easy
Yesterday
#18
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden or secret attack, of a person--especially if prominent or important.
Celerity
Yesterday
#15
Your not alone. It elevates his ordinary murder to being more important than it really is.
QueerDuck
Yesterday
#22
I'd call it "taking out the trash". But I know we're still in the performative outrage stage of the incident.
Aristus
Yesterday
#26
My favourite line from "Grace Quigley", "But Ma, that would be murder!" "No, it is
niyad
Yesterday
#45
Technically it's accurate - an assassination usually refers to the targeted killing
Ocelot II
Yesterday
#29
Equally, the description of him as "conservative". I know the terms are thoroughly blurred, but...
JHB
Yesterday
#39
The problem with using the word now is we still don't know what the motive was.
Wiz Imp
Yesterday
#41
Too many people here on DU using it, and hence buying into the RW narrative.
Crunchy Frog
Yesterday
#48