As with any medical emergency, we must eradicate the carrier, that is, guns. The litany sounds so very chilling, so frightening, so unutterably horrible. The last thing these anti-liberty zealots refuse to acknowledge, of course, is that what they decry does not exist. 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.