# Bullets as a metaphor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullets-as-a-metaphor/590537>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 27, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullets-as-a-metaphor/590537 "2011-07-27T20:18:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bullets-as-a-metaphor/590537/54 "2011-08-02T23:15:12Z")

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> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#):
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> Could you name the people you consider to be in the former group, and quote their statements to the effect?

Here are some others:

> [@Sarah Palin takes no responsibility for the Tucson shootings? Really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-takes-no-responsibility-for-the-tucson-shootings-really/567104/23):
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> > [@Mr. Excellent](#):
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> > I suppose they could, if they were so inclined, carefully strip all public speeches and advertisements of any militant language that could be interepreted by a crazy person as an actual call for violence.
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> Yes, let’s start there.
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> > [@Mr. Excellent](#):
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> > But this seems an excessively onerous restriction to place on our political speech.
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> Why? What’s so onerous about saying “vote them out of office” instead of “reload”?
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> (Again, I don’t want to legally restrict their speech, I simply think public opinion can/should sway them to realize that it’s not worth it. If they don’t care about the loss of life, maybe they’ll care about the loss of elections.)

> [@Most despicable reaction to the Tucson shootings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-reaction-to-the-tucson-shootings/567443/9):
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> Or perhaps the Palin sycophants who need incontrovertible evidence that Palin’s crosshairs and violent talk of gunplay had a direct relationship to the shooting instead of condemning her vitriol on general principle.

> [@Most despicable reaction to the Tucson shootings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-reaction-to-the-tucson-shootings/567443/13):
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> That may well be. But Palin’s crosshair map and her talk of gunplay, and Angle’s talk of second amendment remedies can and should be condemned regardless on whether or not they were factors in the shootings.

> [@Most despicable reaction to the Tucson shootings?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-despicable-reaction-to-the-tucson-shootings/567443/30):
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> You want him to admit that he’s wrong that Palin supporters want incontrovertible evidence or a link between Palin’s rhetoric and the shooting? ISTM that that’s what they demand, rather than accept that violent rhetoric has been demonstrated in other cases to abet violence.

> [@Sarah Palin takes no responsibility for the Tucson shootings? Really?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-takes-no-responsibility-for-the-tucson-shootings-really/567104/12):
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> Wow, how damning can you get? Actual cross-hair symbols (surveyor’s markings my ass) with the message “We’ve diagnosed the problem… Help us prescribe the solution.”

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