This is very true, and by using certain labels or names one implies much more than is necessary…
For example, from my perspective, the first 3 bullets were fired at Trump by a professional sniper who was on the roof of the tallest building in the AGR parking lot. Many people, including on this forum, immediately label that as the “second shooter” theory, but that is not what I am saying…
I refer to the person who fired the shots at Trump as “the real shooter”… If “the real shooter” is the man who died on the roof, that is fine, but if it is someone else, everything I have said about the “real shooter” still applies, but anyone who has made statements and claims about the man who died on that roof being the shooter needs to rephrase or otherwise correct their statements.
When someone talks about the “2nd shooter”, it automatically implies that there was a first shooter, and in this assassination attempt, the first bullet fired is really the only one that matters…
From my perspective, it could very well be that the shooter of the first 3 bullets used a second weapon to fire a burst of 5 bullets, but it could also be that there was indeed a second shooter who fired those five bullets, or some other combination.
As far as I’m concerned, none of that matters: I adjust the model so that the observations fit the model as best as possible, and I don’t feel personally attacked or offended if something needs to be adjusted.
What I find unfortunate is that asking a question or making a comment is immediately seen as a personal attack, when (as far as I’m concerned) it was just a simple question or comment with no malicious intent behind it…
So semantics and being very careful is really important in this matter, and using certain words implies so much that it becomes difficult to keep a distance from the whole thing and not get involved.
Prejudices and beliefs are the enemy of knowledge, and I just want to know what really happened…