Despite the lies and distortions promulgated by modern day statists, it is true that statistics do, of course, reveal that thousands of people die every year from gunshot wounds. As the well-known saying points out, no gun has ever killed or murdered a human being. People kill and murder other people using instruments that include firearms. But regardless of the decades of attacks on objectivity and truth launched by present-day philosophers and social scientists, by deconstructivists and those who claim that language and words reflect only what we have agreed upon, words do mean something. To use them sloppily or euphemistically or ingenuously is to destroy the purpose of language and the source of the concepts that words represent.
Language is a vehicle to convey our thoughts to others.
Words and concepts should be precisely defined and applied to ensure that the meanings we seek to share are accurate symbols for what exists in reality. This type of propaganda is old hat to statists. Control of language, obfuscation of meaning, and the twisting of thoughts are ancient techniques wielded by actual and would-be tyrants to induce, threaten, scare, or otherwise impose their will upon others. Such obvious dictators as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao are hardly the only practitioners of this corruption of the human conceptual faculty. The expansion in politically correct language has exacerbated this trend.