You called for people on this site to be put in padded rooms and straightjackets Joel, and that was way out of line, and I got to tell you, most of us find references to be locked up just as bad or worse than implied violence. As to that, do you really think there's a smattering of difference between saying "Don't retreat, reload" and "Stand our ground"? Were you under the impression 'stand our ground' is not a military reference? or 'lead the charge', people use military and aggressive sport references all the time. Did you know that 'beat' as in 'we'll beat them this november' is from Middle English beten, from Old English bēatan (“to beat, pound, strike, lash, dash, thrust, hurt, injure”. Terms and phrases you don't happen to use much personally do not deserve special condemnation, I guess it makes you not a hypocrite in that respect, just ignorant of our language. Lot's of people in the US use gun-speak, that's just part of our culture because we don't have a lot pre-gun culture. An awful lot of us come from military or hunting backgrounds, where 'lock and load' means nothing more than 'belt up' or 'let's get ready to rumble' or simply "It's time". "Threw him under the bus" is an outright statement of committing premeditated murder to save your own skin. 'Defeat's origin is as use for destruction or ruination, these terms are all used casually and regularly in our culture and so are things like 'reload'.

Now there's a difference between inciting violence, using violent terms, and using inflammatory rhetoric, you can certainly do all three at once, but you're complaining mostly about that middle one when it would seem the least of three evils.