Posted on 12/07/2019 7:29:07 PM PST by DoodleBob
Fairfax, VA -(Ammoland.com)- Gun control advocates understand the power of language, if not the effective use of it. Over the years the anti-gun establishment has attempted to move away from the term gun control to more benign-sounding alternatives such as commonsense gun safety or gun reform. Their goal of civilian disarmament has remained constant, but the language has changed. Gun control advocates calculate that such shifts in language will further their political aims by obscuring their policy goals.
On November 17, waning 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted the following,
Traffic violence kills thousands and injures even more Americans every year. On World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Crash Victims, I'm sending my love to the families and friends of those who have lost loved ones. It's time to #EndTrafficViolence.
Warren was not referencing the intentional misuse of motor vehicles to attack drivers or pedestrians. Warren used the term traffic violence to refer to the common car accident.
According to the Department of Transportation, there were 6,452,000 police-reported car accidents in the U.S. in 2017. An insurance industry estimate contended that the average driver files a collision claim about once every 18 years, and therefore will experience about 3-4 accidents over the course of their lifetime. Little did you know that the time you were involved in a fender bender in the mall parking lot you were a perpetrator of traffic violence.
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Food violence
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It’s time to #EndTrafficViolence. >
Tell that to Joe Biden.
His VP motorcade ran over a record number of pedestrians , Joe had them driving too fast, he was so afraid he would get shot by Ukrainian mafia.
EndTrafficViolence.org challenges presidential candidates to take a stand on automotive fatalities etc. Warren apparently either accepted the challenge or worked with them to start the idea.
Deep state wants to move automotive technology toward self-driving vehicles. They don't want human drivers.
Families for Safe Streets demands that every U.S. presidential candidate end the silence on traffic violence and put forward a plan for safe, livable, and vibrant communities where Americans have safe and dignified (hold on....what?) transportation options, and can travel freely without harm. We all deserve to grow up and live life to the fullest without fear that we or someone we love will be killed in a preventable traffic crash. Americans deserve a national leader who will put an end to the senseless carnage on our roads and confront the deadly epidemic of traffic violence.
How many beers do you suppose she got as a reward? LoL
Yes.
Anymore it seems like everything liberals write sounds like the Babylon Bee.
I would go so far as to say that plenty of times the Babylon Bee is closer to real news than most of the liberal news outlets.
She’s both factually incorrect and linguistically incorrect.
And the wordsmiths, ie the “media”, should correct her, but they will not.
Traffic accidents are not traffic violence. Violence implies a deliberate act with the intent of hurting another somehow. Accidents are unplanned, unexpected, unintentional events that can cause damage and/or injury.
SHE IS ABUSING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Attempt to hijack the language to a socialist framework.
Newspeak is the preferred language of Collectivists.
Yes, we do. Which is why we need a wall, and also need to deport illegals. Just about every day I read a news story about some drunk illegal killing an American with a vehicle. Americans shouldn't have to fear that we or someone we love will be killed in a preventable traffic crash.
If it saves just one life......
I think I saw that movie, doesnt a girl on horse jump over John Travolta ?
This is one of her stupidest tacks to date. Do they really want comparisons made between numbers of traffic deaths vs gun deaths every year?
Were coming to take your SUVs away. There, I said it.
As a function of deaths per million miles traveled, I do not think it has ever been lower. This is about banning private automobiles, a long-time goal of the radical left.
Ninja Kitty!
Then Warren will really hate the heavy hardened-steel Tesla Cybertruck.
All the more reason to get one.
another extra-constitutional issue pushed by federal democrats.
So, it’s language violence then?
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