[Mononokay]

Speech didn't kill them a single bit more than water did, if you're using that logic:

What killed Holocaust victims? Gas. Why did they let that happen? Because the people forcing them to go in had guns. Why did they force them? Because they worked under a man who commanded that they be killed. How was he alive? Because he drank water, preventing him from dying of dehydration.

[meri_dian]

I guess we're both right then

[meri_dian]

So there wasn't torture destruction and murder on a mass scale before guns?

Humanity works itself into a fervor of anger sometimes. That is what kills people. The implements of anger are irrelevant.

[Mononokay]

Speech cannot directly kill anything. Guns, however, can.