Not to circle back to previous threads, but you should see some of the euphemisms in drugstore romance novels, that one is decidedly on the list but oddly enough not one of the most creative, LOL!

IMO, the biggest part of the problem is the American love of violence in general combined with a slavish devotion to a misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment. We Americans can't get enough violence. Our entertainment is saturated with it, from sports to movies and television shows. The glorification of blood and guts is shocking if you can detach enough to sit back and really take a look at it.

For a personal example, when I was 14 and my brother was 12 the movie The Godfather was shown on network television for the first time. There were only minor edits to the film made. My parents agreed to let us watch, and we got to see everything: Luca Brasi being garotted, a decapitated horse's head in a bed, Sonny being gunned down at the toll booth. But during the wedding, when Sonny was banging the bridesmaid up against the door, my mother reached down from up on the couch and covered my eyes. My father did the same for my brother. (Mom and Dad didn't realize that I'd already read the book when they had it in the house when it was first published, but they never did catch on to just how precocious I was.)

My parents were not stupid people. But in their mind it was perfectly ok for a child to see the horrible, intense violence depicted in The Godfather (the greatest movie of all time, IMO, but that's for another thread I guess.) But the sex was verboten. Children must be protected from knowing about an enjoyable act that two consenting adults can do.

Is it any wonder that we're so effed up as a society? And that the first reaction of many people is to shoot first and ask questions later?

Guess my sarcasm funny didn't come across, that WAS a joke. 

I wish she would run, but she's said she won't. She'd be my first choice in 2016.

Elizabeth Warren as veep?  Pretty please?