Reply to post: Re: swatting

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ChrisC Silver badge

Re: swatting

"Swatting" is in reference to the use of SWAT teams, so it's not as if the name was just plucked out of thin air, or deliberately chosen to sound inconsequential relative to the actual effects of the act to which it applies.

The question might be better asked as to whether "SWAT" itself is an appropriate name for the firearms squad, as it manages to quite neatly gloss over the rather lethal nature of what that group of officers are expected to do when ordered into action.

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