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The bizarre and irrational beliefs of gun nuts about household gun ownership numbers
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 20:03:59 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote: "Ed Huntress" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:41:21 -0600, Just Wondering wrote: On 7/25/2015 4:46 AM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:14:59 -0600, Just Wondering wrote: On 7/24/2015 6:32 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:36:17 -0500, RD Sandman rdsandman[remove]comcast.net wrote: Just Wondering wrote in : On 7/23/2015 2:46 PM, Ed Huntress wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:34:29 -0600, Just Wondering wrote: On 7/23/2015 1:36 PM, Joe Cooper wrote: Rudy Canoza wrote in news:mor5dh$m26$1@dont- email.me: There's a reason these people are seen as gun *nuts*. What is a "gun nut"? To a hoplophobe, it's anyone who supports the Second Amendment. It's meant to be derisive but it's actually a compliment. You should define "hoplophobe" while you're at it. It's someone who has an irrational fear of Hopalong Cassidy. I didn't invent the word. I don't have to define it, it has a well understood definition. If you don't know, look it up. Ed was being sarcastic about how some hoplophobes feel. From other statements he has made, he does seem to hold them in a bit of disdain. I was being sarcastic about the inanity of gun nutz trying to apply a comically pseudo-clinical term to people who dislike guns. The pretentiousness is hilarious. It's not "dislike". There are liberal left wingnuts who actually fear the idea of guns in private hands. And every day, they get 27 murders committed with guns to prove that they're right about that -- because you never know which private hands those guns are in. So now you admit that hoplophobia is real, it's not just " a comically pseudo-clinical term." WTF are you talking about? "Hoplophobia" is a made-up joke of a term. There are people who have a fear of questionable rationality that they'll be shot by some private person who has a gun in his hands. They're the people who carry concealed guns. -- Ed Huntress Is the fear "of questionable rationality" that they will be robbed by some private person who has a gun in his hands? You'll have to ask them about their fears, but asking a shrink probably will give you a more accurate answer. The irony is that they bitch about anti-gun people being afraid of people carrying guns, and the concealed-carry people carry guns because they're afraid of people carrying guns. Same mix of rationality/irrationality in both cases. One sees increased safety in getting rid of guns. The other sees increased safety in being ready to shoot it out with somebody carrying a gun. -- Ed Huntress |
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