Can Stand Your Ground create 'legal serial killers?'

[AmyStrange]

33. Actually...

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If you want to talk about accuracy, the original term (which the term "serial killer" comes from) was, "serial murderer" which is much more accurate than serial killer:

FROM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer
(Etymology)
"The English term and concept of 'serial killer' is commonly attributed to former FBI Special agent Robert Ressler in the 1970s. Author Ann Rule postulates in her 2004 book Kiss Me, Kill Me that the English-language credit for coining the term serial killer goes to LAPD detective Pierce Brooks, creator of the ViCAP system. In his book Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters, criminal justice historian Peter Vronsky argues that while Ressler might have coined the term serial homicide within law in 1974 at Bramshill Police Academy in Britain, the terms serial murder and serial murderer appear in 1966 in John Brophy's book The Meaning of Murder. Moreover, Vronsky reports that the term serial killer does not appear in Anne Rule's seminal book on Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, published in 1980, when the term was not yet in popular use... "

If you want "serial killer" to mean "serial murderer", fine, and there's nothing wrong with that, but to ridicule me for using the term more accurately than most people do is not a problem I'm going to lose sleep over,

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