One of my pet peeves, among activists in the media?
When someone comes up on the wrong end of a police or civilian civil defense shooting, and the media and activists jabber that the person was “unarmed”.
Of course, sometimes it means someone got murdered.
Of course, sometimes it means someone got murdered.
But “unarmed” does not mean “not lethality dangerous“.
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Reminds of of carry permit class and being told that if one is over 250 lbs, muscular, and male, no jury in the world is going to consider you to be unarmed.
Pray they find the punk and put him away for a long, long time.
Long after the majority of police officers stopped carrying revolvers news reports of police shootings routinely mentioned a “service revolver.” It was a term ingrained in reporters’ minds. I’ve seen it in the news at least once in the last few years. The picture accompanying the story showed officers with Glock pistols.
“Unarmed man” has the same potential to be a reporter’s reflexive choice of words when describing a police shooting. Whether the assailant (or “victim” if you write for the Strib) is driving a car, holding a baseball bat, or wearing his martial arts black belt he will be an unarmed man.
reader, may be perp indeed had no arms. It can happen.
The man who shot and murdered the Aiken policeman in the St Cloud hospital was unarmed.
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