Raymond Yates wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RT> I'm sitting here listening to the news,  and some wacko just went nuts
 RT> (with guns) in a factory in Mississippi.  Why the heck is it,  when
 RT> the news media refers to an incident of this type,  that they always
 RT> refer to the perp as "a gunman"?

 RT> If he'd used a knife,  would they call him "a knifeman"?  How about
 RT> other implements...?

 RY> Media, being what it is, would call him "an unarmed gunman"  not
 RY> there's there's an agenda, or anything like that...

Of course.  And there's no bias there either...

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