Dru Stevenson on Nostr: Something I've noticed in news reporting is that when they talk about more guns ...

Something I've noticed in news reporting is that when they talk about more guns coming into private hands in violent places overseas, like Somalia or Afghanistan, it's referred to as "arms proliferation." When news reports cover the surge of guns sold in the US, they talk about "gun sales" or "guns in circulation." I worry that we're sanitizing what is happening with our euphemisms. Guns sales are arms proliferation no matter where we are, and arms proliferation=a more dangerous place to be.