[ineedasername]

The premise is false. Headlines or descriptions of events like *"Three innocent bystanders were hit when a spray of bullets burst through the door, killing 1 and injuring the other 2".

So... Bullet anthropomorphizing is also a thing.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

What was anthropomorphized in that sentence? Inanimate objects can burst through things and kill people.

[ineedasername]

I used the phrasing the article author was objecting to for cars. It anthropomorphized to the same extent as what the author is complaining about. So, I suppose you could collapse the thing either way- bullets are often anthropomorphized just as much as cars, or your direction which I'd agree with- there isn't much anthropomorphizing to begin with in either of them.