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Assassinations usually target public figures for political or ideological motives and public impact. So a subcategory of murders if you want.

• brewdad 1y ago
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  • dang 1y ago
    You've posted three abusive comments to this thread in quick succession. That's not ok, and we have to ban such accounts. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203452 and stop doing this, we'd appreciate it. (Your account is far from the only one posting abusively in this thread, and it's probably random that I happened to see your posts, but still - this is not ok.)
    • FinnKuhn 1y ago
      Thank you for removing this so quickly.