Gosi wrote:

> Homicide is merely the act of killing a human. It is not necessarily a
> crime. Murder is a legal conclusion. It is a certain type of illegal
> homicide.
>
> For example, when a medical examiner determines cause of death, they
> may determine that it was homicide, which only means that the person
> was killed by another. That does not necessarily mean that the killing
> of the person was murder. The person may have been killed during self-
> defense. The killing may have been an accident.
>
> You have may have heard the term "justifiable homicide" before? This
> simply means that a person was killed (hence homicide) but it is not a
> crime (e.g. manslaughter or murder) because there was a legal
> justification for the killing.
>
> The word homicide comes from the root "hom," which is derived from
> homo sapien (or human), and the suffix "cide" refers to the act of
> killing. Similarly, the term suicide comes from the latin root "sui"
> which means self, and "cide" which is the act of killing.

No wonder you missed the meaning of those 3,000 dead and mentioned
43,000 automotive deaths.