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Reports of a shooting involving 3 men - details sketchy but sadly 1 dead, one other who seems to have been the guilty man and the son of the murder victim shot by a 12 guage. More below.

 

 

 

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Apologies for being off topic and pedantic, but why the **** are people referring to murders as homicides. Last time I looked I was in the u.k not the states.

 

Murder and homicide aren't the same thing.

Homicide is the killing of another person. Murder and manslaughter are both homicide.

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I have no doubt there will be calls for more gun laws from the usual suspects. But does anybody seriously believe that the killings wouldn't have taken place if the killer didn't have guns? The headline would probably have been something like "Two people stabbed to death on Scottish farm", "Two people ran over and killed on Scottish farm", "Two people killed in arson attack on Scottish farm", need I go on?

 

I have said it a thousand times before, the problem has so little to do with guns and weapons, and everything to do with depression, stress and mental illness. Those three things seem to be on an alarming increase throughout society, and until this is properly addressed, these random, violent outbursts will continue to happen and with greater frequency.

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Homicide is the murder of another of the human species, as fratricide, patricide, matricide and sororicide are the killing of ones brother father mother and sister. Murder is premeditated killing so all of the above can be murder but not necessarily so. Its the premeditatiom which makes murder, murder, if you get my meaning ?

So it may be a while before we know it was murder or just a spur of the moment thing - hence homicide from homo hominis (man.

However, I agree lets call it murder anyway ! More British agreed

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Homicide is the murder of another of the human species, as fratricide, patricide, matricide and sororicide are the killing of ones brother father mother and sister. Murder is premeditated killing so all of the above can be murder but not necessarily so. Its the premeditatiom which makes murder, murder, if you get my meaning ?So it may be a while before we know it was murder or just a spur of the moment thing - hence homicide from homo hominis (man.However, I agree lets call it murder anyway ! More British agreed

Not quite so, murder is "the unlawful killing of a human being within the queen's peace with malice aforethought". A quirk of the law is that "malice aforethought" actually requires neither malice nor forethought, but simply an intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm. Premeditation in the traditional sense doesn't come into it, that's a common misconception.

 

Homicide is simply the killing of a human. So murder is always homicide, but homicide is not necessarily murder.

 

The only way this wont be murder is if either loss of control or diminished responsibility can be shown (under s52 and s54 of the Coroners and Jutice Act 2009), in which case the shooter will be guilty of manslaughter. It's largely academic either way though, because both offences carry the life tariff.

 

Sorry to be pedantic, but it was only three weeks ago I sat my criminal law exam....

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Homicide is the murder of another of the human species, as fratricide, patricide, matricide and sororicide are the killing of ones brother father mother and sister. Murder is premeditated killing so all of the above can be murder but not necessarily so. Its the premeditatiom which makes murder, murder, if you get my meaning ?

So it may be a while before we know it was murder or just a spur of the moment thing - hence homicide from homo hominis (man.

However, I agree lets call it murder anyway ! More British agreed

 

It's the killing of a human. It need not be murder.

 

J.

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Not quite so, murder is "the unlawful killing of a human being within the queen's peace with malice aforethought". A quirk of the law is that "malice aforethought" actually requires neither malice nor forethought, but simply an intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm. Premeditation in the traditional sense doesn't come into it, that's a common misconception.

 

Homicide is simply the killing of a human. So murder is always homicide, but homicide is not necessarily murder.

 

The only way this wont be murder is if either loss of control or diminished responsibility can be shown (under s52 and s54 of the Coroners and Jutice Act 2009), in which case the shooter will be guilty of manslaughter. It's largely academic either way though, because both offences carry the life tariff.

 

Sorry to be pedantic, but it was only three weeks ago I sat my criminal law exam....

 

If you have an intention to do something then that is forethought. It is the same as premeditration. It may only be forethought/premeditation which you had one second before you did it but it is still forethought. If that were not present you could not be convicted of murder.

 

J.

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Apologies for being off topic and pedantic, but why the **** are people referring to murders as homicides. Last time I looked I was in the u.k not the states.

 

You are indeed correct, despite all the excuses quoted above, the noun homicide is chiefly used in the States not the UK.

 

I personally object to the Americanisation of our language. I blame Sky TV.

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