Pittsburgh active shooter: What we know about the suspect, William Hardison Sr.
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William Hardison Sr. was killed during the shooting situation.
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Why does it say "active shooter" then says he was killed?
Sounds pretty inactive to me
The term is not descriptive. "Active shooter" is someone being active in mass shootings.
The "active" part of the label seems like gunspeak. What's an inactive shooter anyway.
I suppose it makes sense for the people called to the scene, but it's not descriptive for what has already happened or who it was, though it is used like that.
It was a live breaking story and things changed after it was first published.
But why "active" in the first place. Is it just trying to sound tacticool? You don't say active driver or active toddler
Because “active” tells you the shooter is still out there and to be cautious. When the article was first written, it was an active shooter situation.
When the article was written it was a shooter situation, exactly the same
Tacticool journalism 🤮🤢
Just like burglarized Vs burgled
Wouldn't "burglarized" mean "turned into a burglary"? Like if you were trespassing, then decided to steal something, your presence there was burglarized.
It also suggests the existence of burglarism