Just because most use of ‘fighting’ in political rhetoric is not literal does not mean that all such ‘fighting’ words are intended to be figurative.
Tag: violence
Metaphorical shooting?
In September 2019, Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase (Republican) ran a Facebook ad where she warned gun control advocates that she was “not afraid to shoot” them down: an extraordinarily insensitive choice of wording in light of the exceedingly contentious nature of the issue of gun rights in the USA, along with the regular occurrence…