Tropes, de trop

After a TV news story about a shooting that "left three innocent bystanders wounded":

Me: You never hear about "guilty bystanders." Like, "the shooting injured two innocent bystanders and this man, who was on his way to rob a bank."



J.: "The last bullet killed a young Austrian watercolorist, who had entertained all of Berlin that summer with his anti-Semitic ravings." Ah, history's lost chances...