Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re...
by mc32 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:45PM
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It's academic yes, but in a murder investigation you want to know who had the gun and pulled the trigger not so much what make it was. For evidentiary purposes, yes, you want to know what exact gun it was and who manufactured it, but that's not at all the point of a murder trial. you want to know who the perp was.
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Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re...
by giraffe_lady on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:47PM
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War weapons are not really like murder weapons in this sense. If you want to stick with that metaphor, the country of manufacture here is more like the friend who bought the gun for the murderer. That sort of relationship is very relevant in a trial.
Re:AP fired reporter after dangerous blunder. Slack chats re...
by mc32 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:57PM
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I don't recall reporters customarily mentioning the country of origin/manufacture of weaponry unless it was germane to the discussion.
When they report ISIS or Taliban killing people they might mention it was with AK-47s but they don't mention where they were manufactured. They may say things like The Taliban are buying AK-47s from China which they then issue to their members.
If this reporter wanted to be correct, they likely want to say Soviet missile fired by Ukraine, given the age of the missile fired, it was likely of vintage manufacture.