Re: Not always joking, it seems

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> 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.

Judging by the Wikipedia article, some people argue that Weiss didn't 
actually shoot Long--he approached him to hit him, the bodyguards 
thought it was an assassination attempt, and in the process of shooting 
Weiss also killed Long. It seems to be a minority opinion.

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