I also agree with this ...

... at the Language Log: On Prescriptivism. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I even agree - mostly - with the point about "pro-life," though I would add that the same can be said of "pro-choice." Both are terms of propaganda. I do not, however, think that opposing gun control has anything to do with it - since that involves a confusion of instrument with agent, and I think the reference to "wars that are not unequivocally self-defensive in nature" is geopolitically naive. I think a very good case can be made for pre-emptive war. But then, I'm not a pacifist (though I respect pacifism as a counsel of perfection).