>Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
I always thought this was a weird rule because that means your calling out of my calling out is _also_ inappropriate, which I don't think it is in this context.
I think "submission" here refers to the article, and not to comments on the article.
I see, that makes sense.
If this happened to let’s say Barack Obama or some other ex-president/ex-prime minister, I think it would be on here. This is not “most stories”.
The assassination was also committed with a homemade firearm. If that doesn’t qualify as “hacker” news I don’t know what does.