Aliasing firing → shooting
Link to alias

Reason:

Both deal with firing ranged weapons, and shooting's the more popular tag

EDIT: The tag alias firing -> shooting (forum #211035) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.

What about the images where a character is having its job contract terminated?

+1 to alias.

Delian said:
What about the images where a character is having its job contract terminated?

fired. Another term can be used if confusion or mistagging arises.

(bumping because this was already in the pending queue)

+1

'Shooting' has a broader definition, and avoids the connotation of being fired from a job, or firing a kiln for pottery/earthenware.
Combining these should catch everything from loosing arrows, to firing firearms, to pew pew lasers.

Delian said:
What about the images where a character is having its job contract terminated?

bluedingo said:
... fired. Another term can be used if confusion or mistagging arises.

Because of fired tags,
i though some taggers could get confused between firing and fired.
How about firing aliasing to firing_(disambigation)?

with firing_(disambigation) getting separated into

• fired

and

• either firing_weapon (47 posts) or a shooting* tag (388 posts tagged with shooting)

and

• firing_pottery (or equivalent) : example post #1805826

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Current *firing* tags:
1 . . . backfiring (not sure what kind of backfiring this is, but using strikethrough because doesn't seem to involve any weapon)
106 . . . firing
12 . . . firing_gun
2 . . . firing_squad
47 . . . firing_weapon

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Some *shoot* general tags:
4 . . . school_shooting
1 . . . school_shootings
6 . . . shooter
488 . . . shooting
1 . . . shooting_by_feet
1 . . . shooting_eye
3 . . . shooting_gallery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_range says "A shooting gallery is a recreational shooting facility with toy guns")
4 . . . shooting_game
28 . . . shooting_gun
24 . . . shooting_range
6 . . . shootout (some not depicting shooting)
1 . . . shoot_to_kill (not depicting shooting)

(some other *shoot* tags:
photo_shoot, porn_shoot,
1 . . . shootinggorilla (maybe name of artist?)
12 . . . shooting_pre (aliases to precum_squirt )

EDIT: shooting or firing_weapon tag also good for non-gun weapons (such as phaser or arrow_(weapon) ?)

Some side-notes (FEEL FREE TO IGNORE):

Looked through tag edits of firing_weapon posts :

• post #2269815 uploaded with tags firing_gun and firing_weapon

• post #2814890 , post #2645897 and post #2269952 uploaded with tags firing and firing_weapon

• post #2393620 and post #2318968 uploaded with tags firing , firing_gun and firing_weapon

4 . . . school_shooting
1 . . . school_shootings

Those clearly are the same thing, right? Yet another plural/singular case redundancy.

A backfire is just a shot out the tailpipe, of partially-combusted fuel. Yeah, this has little to do with 'shooting' definition. It's fired like a cannon, at most.

In fact, I'd say all 'firing' tags that refer to shooting should be changed to shooting and others left alone. I guess? Don't know if there should even be an implication there, if shooting tag is being used for non-firearms. Although a shooting_cum tag should not exist, anyways. We already have ejaculation and the various projectile/explosion/... of it tags. XD

alphamule said:

A backfire is just a shot out the tailpipe, of partially-combusted fuel. Yeah, this has little to do with 'shooting' definition. It's fired like a cannon, at most.

Guns can also backfire (breechloaders in particular), which is probably more likely to be depicted in a post here than a car backfire. Car backfires are typically heard, not seen.

scaliespe said:
Guns can also backfire (breechloaders in particular), which is probably more likely to be depicted in a post here than a car backfire. Car backfires are typically heard, not seen.

Unless insanely unlocky. Haha. That would be a lot of fumes.

The tag alias firing -> shooting (forum #211035) has been approved by @Rainbow_Dash.