Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Feb 18, 12:16 am, mike weber <fairport...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:30:34 -0800, John Schilling
>
> <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Is this truly how you expect you would react yourself, if for whatever
> >reason you happened to be carrying a gun?
>
> >You'd shoot into a crowd, in the general direction of a villain, even
> >as other armed men and women have a clear field of fire to engage him
> >without risk to bystanders?  And then shoot any armed man who came to
> >the scene of the crime, on the grounds that he might be in cahoots with
> >the original villain?  Or, if you weren't there from the start, you'd
> >respond to the sound of gunfire by rushing in and shooting every armed
> >man you saw?
>
> Again - cionsider the "assassination" of Huey Long.

(one visit to http://www.hueylong.com/life-times/assassination.php
later)

Why the scare quotes? If a political figure gets killed for his
political opinions, assassination is the standard term. Some people
even use it for Lennon.

I agree no friendly fire deaths in this case, but I doubt the fact
that the assassin died first was much comfort to Long.