Pedantic, but...why is this an assassination and not just a murder? Because he was more than likely targeted? Tupac was targeted (for some street-level bullshit), but I don't think anyone would call his demise an "assassination".

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OkayPhysicist 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Assassinations are surprise killings of prominent individuals for political purposes. Targeted gang killings are an interesting case, because they are political within the context of intra- and inter-gang politics, but not viewed in that light in a broader context. If I was watching a documentary about two rival gangs, I probably wouldn't blink twice at someone referring to a hit on a rival leader as an assassination. In every day conversation, it would probably be weird, because the normal assumption is of the broader political sphere.

People are calling this an assassination because they are making the (probably reasonable) guess that the reason to shoot Charlie Kirk during a political speech is to make a political statement.

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FinnKuhn 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Assassinations usually target public figures for political or ideological motives and public impact. So a subcategory of murders if you want.

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brewdad 5 days ago | parent [-]

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dang 5 days ago | parent [-]

You've posted three abusive comments to this thread in quick succession. That's not ok, and we have to ban such accounts.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203452 and stop doing this, we'd appreciate it.

(Your account is far from the only one posting abusively in this thread, and it's probably random that I happened to see your posts, but still - this is not ok.)

	▲	FinnKuhn 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thank you for removing this so quickly.

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jimt1234 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Forgot about this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PO9yyS367p4