Home Defense: Not just for Guns

[308Mike]

Carry a whistle.

Yeah, (if it's a police-type whistle) they make GREAT defensive weapons (when blown right next to someone's ear).

[Windy Wilson]

But if you blow it too close to the perp's ear, won't you hurt him? Then he can sue you for hostile work environment or excessive force, or non comparable force, or whatever bs they've invented because they think that getting mugged is like getting into a bar fight.

Why don't they just come right out and say it; get your SSN tattooed on your body in three or four places, so when they find your body parts the cops know who you are so they can take you off the books for Social Security and for income tax withholding.

[mekender]

the title of that article

Md. samurai sword death not homicide

Main Entry: ho·mi·cide
Pronunciation: \ˈhä-mə-ˌsīd, ˈhō-\
Function: noun
Etymology: in sense 1, from Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin homicida, from homo human being + -cida -cide; in sense 2, from Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin homicidium, from homo + -cidium -cide
Date: 14th century

1 : a person who kills another
2 : a killing of one human being by another

Sounds like a homicide to me.

[Aaron]

Mek, you don't serious expect journalists to actually use the English language properly, do you?

Not that they're the only offenders. A buddy of mine was on a rant recently about how a self-defense killing here in WA, is classed as a justified homicide whether it goes to trial or not. "They start off saying you murdered a person and go from there." Took forever to convince him that the word homicide in no way touches on justification or what have you, it simply means a killing of one human by another.