Bill Dedman

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.

American Journalist

Curtis Sliwa

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

American Celebrity

Marcus Luttrell

I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.

American Soldier

Kim Jee-woon

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

South Korean Director

James Comey

I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

American Public Servant

Anand Gopal

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

Journalist

Jeff Greenfield

The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.

Buffalo Bill

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.

Mary Doria Russell

The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.

American Writer

Ken MacLeod

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

Scottish Writer

The term 'gunman' does not always imply violence. It can refer to someone proficient with guns.

Not Always Violent

'Gunman' can denote a professional role, such as in security or military.

Occupational Use

In Western films, 'gunman' often depicts a quintessential cowboy or outlaw.

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This use of 'gunman' suggests criminal activity, such as robbery or assault.

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'Gunman' implies a threat, creating a serious or dangerous tone in reporting crime.

Threat Implication

Media often use 'gunman' to report on shootings or armed incidents, emphasizing urgency.

News Reports

 And I should know, because during the time I attended that school, a military takeover happened in my country, a gunman of my nationality nearly killed the Pope, and Turkey got zero points in Eurovision Song Contest. I skipped school often and dreamed of becoming a sailor during those days.

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 And she was thinking about her friends and family who work in chaos-ridden places and developing countries, and she was thinking, what can I make that would be of value to them, in case something bad happens and they have to buy their way across the border or pay off a gunman?

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 a gunman attack a feeding center and there was just nothing I could do though I mean you know they just did what they wanted to do it was a very ruthless ruthless world where you could die for anything any reason at all this child was completely alone I mean there was

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 surrounded they're gonna drop the money drop the gun put their hands up and give up inside the bank the manager fears for his life and opens the vault but there's hardly the amount of money the gunmen expect now he's neither the more aggressive saying

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 he obviously had to find what to do with us he couldn't do it from the house and it wasn't long after that another car drove out for four gunmen got out I was so much afraid again I was with a group

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 after months of searching for Burke police came up with nothing but in December Burt found them in st. Joe Michigan after a routine traffic accident he overreacted there's only a mod gunman

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 Were you there yesterday When the gunman shoot men down No retreat No surrender He can push you no fall down Many come, many go We're not asleep, we're there for all We come in peace

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 available ambulance they fear multiple casualties it's exactly eight minutes since the start of the robbery time for the gunman to make their

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