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I agree that words matter. I have stopped using the AW term, gunman, shooter, etc in public as matter of personal choice. I don't like the terms that the anti's made up in order to demonize a specific class of rifle. I also don't like how the media tries to politicize tragic events by framing them in terms of the means used to inflict harm. I don't want to pile onto the overused gun-drunk driving analogy, but it really does fit here. When the media reports on someone who drinks too much then gets behind the wheel & hurts another person/people, they don't call that person a carman or a vehicular assaulter. In reporting such a situation, they use phrases that describe the objectionable actions, aka drunk driver, intoxicated driver. We as proponents of the Second Amendment need to quit using THEIR terms and frame our arguments in OUR terms.

BTW, I think that the pressure to be more pc has been one of the main forces driving this country into the preverbial ditch. The idea that we have to practically reinvent the English language so somebody doesn't get their feathers ruffled kinda makes me sick to my stomach. So I really don't care if it sets off someone's oversensitivity meter if I used the soon-to-become-dreaded W word. But I do think that we should be smarter when presenting our case to the uninformed, especially in areas where the conversation may be overheard (or comparable).