Editor: All the way from tic tac toe, to football, to economic competition, to war, we humans function like volcanoes - sometimes quiet, sometimes erupting in violence, sometimes only over a game (riots after soccer games). As a cannon-balling diver splashes everyone within reach, so the issue of violent language has splashed all of us as a result of the shootings in Tucson - some defending violent language as metaphorical and some decrying it as hurtful. The cheerleaders bellow it, "Fight!