Poor choice of words from Stuff. Everyone has the “potential” to be armed with a pistol. It would have been more accurate to have said that he “might” have been armed with a pistol or that he was “suspected” of carrying a pistol-like object.
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If there is a coherent principle connecting these two editorial decisions, Stuff should have no difficulty explaining it.
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