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Firearm Lingo – Confused Liberal Minds

Loaded language: The gun metaphors that pervade our everyday slang Sometimes it’s the offhand remark that’s the most telling. Indeed, the way we Americans casually, often unthinkingly, incorporate gun metaphors into our everyday slang says a lot about how deeply embedded guns are in our culture and our politics, and how difficult it is to control or extract them. Consider this list, presented as bullet points — which are themselves so conventional, so central to the typography of mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, that you can forget what their shape represents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/loaded-language-the-gun-metaphors-that-pervade-our-everyday-slang/2014/04/18/40c4053c-c3ed-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b213e551d7cc California considers later school start times as students deal...

Loaded language: The gun metaphors that pervade our everyday slang Sometimes it’s the offhand remark that’s the most telling. Indeed, the way we Americans casually, often unthinkingly, incorporate gun metaphors into our everyday slang says a lot about how...