Can we call it what it is; killings. Not "shooting". Words are important folks, and define the debat

[pasto76]

this guy killed all of these people, and tried to kill the rest.

Just like Rep Giffords was almost assassinated, not a victim of a "shooting".

[seabeyond]

1. yes. words are important. good point. nt

[PoliticAverse]

2. So people shot and not killed or almost killed don't count ? n/t

[RC]

3. Words are important. It was a multiple or mass shooting.

Not everyone shot was killed.

[young_at_heart]

4. You are so right!

The word 'shooting' is less criminal in the eyes of the populace. "Killing', on the other hand, which this definitely was, has far more meaning to the average person.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. you need both. they weren't killed with knives. "shot and killed" - words are important.

[we can do it]

6. A Killer Shooting and Killing Innocents with Automatic Weapons

words do matter. Guns in the hands of loonies matter to those who have lost loved ones. How many people could this psycho have killed by strangling them, or stabbing them? Not so many, I don't think.

[scarletwoman]

7. Fuck that shit. People were SHOT. It was a SHOOTING. Not everyone who was shot was killed.

What if the guy had thrown a bomb into the theater? Would you object to calling it a "bombing"?

And Kathy Giffords was SHOT. She most certainly WAS the victim of a SHOOTING.

[Clyde39]

8. So much emotion involved---he wanted to KILL and he did it by 'shooting'

One senses that this deranged person was trying to kill as many as he could. What I am outraged by is how easy it was for him to buy such lethal weapons. It would be nice if the NRA cared about this.

[arcane1]

9. The NRA apparently calls its members "shooters"

Plus, many many people were NOT killed, but wounded, by being shot.

I agree with you 100% that words matter, which is why "shooting" and "shooter" are 100% acceptable words to describe this horror.

[uppityperson]

10. I understand your point. Mass murderer, killer rather than shooter.

I don't think calling someone a mass murderer or killer downplays those who were wounded and survived. He tried to murder, to kill them, and didn't succeed.

He is a mass murderer. He is a killer.

[young_at_heart]

11. I looked up the definitions of 'shooting' and 'killing' in a Thesaurus

Shooting had three synonyms and killing had at least twenty.