I was bored one day and when i went on to this website looking for ultimate questions e.g what came first the chicken or the egg, then i found this and i am curious as to what the answer is.
2007-01-12 07:07:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
if you're committing the murder because of who the person is, or what they stand for, it's an assassination
2007-01-12 07:11:30 · answer #1 · answered by kapute2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Political, which offers a wide range of job descriptions. A Private in the Army is a murder victim, while a General is assassinated.
2007-01-12 15:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be targeted based on your position, rather than in your own right.
Suppose the First Lady strangles the President. She hasn't assassinated him; she has murdered him.
Suppose someone is really annoyed at having to stop for the school crossing guard, and pops her with a high powered sniper rifle one morning. She has been targeted due to her office (crossing guard) rather than because she was Mrs. Bumblesnatch.
2007-01-12 15:11:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much the importance as the reasoning. A murder is when someone shoots a Congressman for his wallet, or an activist is killed in a domestic dispute.
An assassination is when you shoot the Congressman because you don't like the bill he wants to pass, or you kill the activist because you want her cause to shut up.
2007-01-12 15:17:57 · answer #4 · answered by allronix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple answer is that they are both murder. An assassination is done for political motives.
2007-01-12 15:11:44 · answer #5 · answered by Steve H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I associate assassinations with politicians only
2007-01-12 15:30:02 · answer #6 · answered by d☻min☺ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋