In its self...you are correct. It's when it is used in conjunction with other gun related phrases and metaphors that it becomes violent rhetoric. Lock and Load only has one meaning...and that meaning certainly isn't "go out and vote". Don't retreat...reload certainly isn't innocent metaphor. What's next? Are they going to claim that saying to go shoot the president means get out and vote too?
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 20:36 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Democratic congresswoman shot in the head at point blank range. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:15 PM, denstar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I *do* like the idea of politicians ditching the violent rhetoric though. > I do not think the phrase 'in the crosshairs' is violent rhetoric, in and of itself. it can surely be used as such, but most times I have heard that from public figures it has been a metaphor, nothing else - I bet that changes - and I think it stinks if it does. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
