Even ordinary language is full of military or at least weapons language. We shoot photos. We casually talk about an unpredictable person being a “loose cannon.” We debate a “scattershot” or a “double-barreled” approach while we are “under the gun” to submit a grant proposal asking for our “target population.” After a shooting catastrophe, we learn that the perpetrator “went ballistic,” or was a “ticking time bomb” all along. We are a nation of gun-toters, and we speak gun language, whether we realize it or not.