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

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      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.

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        But why “active” in the first place. Is it just trying to sound tacticool? You don’t say active driver or active toddler

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          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.

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            1 year ago

            When the article was written it was a shooter situation, exactly the same

            Tacticool journalism 🤮🤢

            Just like burglarized Vs burgled

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              Wouldn’t “burglarized” mean “turned into a burglary”? Like if you were trespassing, then decided to steal something, your presence there was burglarized.