Thread: Seriousness Australian Twin Sisters shot at Denver Shooting Range
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Old 11-19-2010, 08:50 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967 View Post
Well, the phrase "Australian Twin Sisters shot at Denver Shooting Range" does sound a little odd if it was a suicide.

However, to be fair to Kenny, that is how it was initially reported. See this link from the BBC web site of Wednesday;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11771852

And compare that to how it's being reported now;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11793745
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Originally Posted by dsvick View Post
Although you, most likely, didn't mean it that way - I found this really funny.




I have to agree with KK on this one, for me, saying someone was shot implies that they were shot by someone other than themselves. I can't recall ever hearing of a suicide story where they simply reported the victim/perpetrator as being shot unless it was a murder-suicide and then they almost always report it as such.

In the defense of the news agencies though, since they didn't know it was a suicide, reporting them as being shot was the only option they had to go with.
and I was simply trying to give the follow up.

totally done with semantics here.
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