Active Shooter In Jersey City; 2 Gunmen Shooting At Cops, 1 Officer Down

[waffles]

Before the term "Active Shooter" entered the current lexicon, how did we describe events such as this?

An actively-occurring shooting without any other details? I remember shooting or shootout. Active shooter frankly seems like the perfect term to describe a presently-occurring event involving some sort of shooting.

[.455_Hunter]

An actively-occurring shooting without any other details? I remember shooting or shootout. Active shooter frankly seems like the perfect term to describe a presently-occurring event involving some sort of shooting.

Thank you for providing a rational discussion. I think the generic term "shooting" could be used for most every event until the fact are known, especially in the media. What the LEO community uses internally is their business. "Active Shooter" carries too much baggage and political connotation, kinda like "Gun Violence".