Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:01:47 -0800 (PST), "louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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.

There is reason to doubt whether the "assassin" actually killed Long,
since his bodyguards cut loose with .45s and appear to have hit him at
least once or tweic; as i remarked above, Weiss had something like a
..32 revolver, a weapon slightly more dealy than a .25 calibre beadroom
gun.

Between .45s and a .32, i know which i'd pick as probable cause of
death.

However, it probably counts as an assassination even if his
bodyguards' rounds did kill him," felony assassination", perhaps,
since his death was a direct result of Weiss's actions.