Why do people say "axe murderer", but not "gun murderer", "knife murderer", etc?
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Anti-Semantic - Quaerens Intellectum
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I know "gunman" would typically be the phrase for someone with a gun. I don't know why the same wouldn't apply to knives or axes. Thanks for giving me something to ponder. :)
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Dramatic license.
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Those just don't have a good ring to them the way axe murderer does.
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Because firearms and knives are a lot more prominent to murder, at least in stereotypical society, than an axe. That someone murders another with an axe is a bit more rare than the usual gun or knife. Thought this context adheres a whole lot more to entertainment than it does real life events, because in the news and criminal records and all, a murderer is a murderer, his implement of murder, whether a gun or a crossbow that shoots chainsaws is an indirect element of the record, most likely because of political correctness, which most forms of entertainment don't seem too willing to adopt.
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LOL ... I love the Q (+4 for the humor there, whether intended or not). I'll axe my neighbor about that.
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Axe murderers are probably specified as such because an axe isn't really that great of a murder weapon, as compared to a knife or a gun, and the very method of the murder is interesting. Axes are not concealable like knives or guns, and attacking with them is slower requires more space to actually swing the weapon. Basically, it's for the same reason that we specify chainsaw murderers....or jackhammer murderers...
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because people are interested in the facts and axe murder has messy written all over it.
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'Cause you didn't ... ax them to! Oh, GROAN! LOL!
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