Hoplophobia
Fear of firearms | ||||
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Hoplophobia
Hoplophobia, (pronounced []), from the Greek hoplon, or weapon, is defined as the "fear of firearms" .
Firearms instructor Colonel Jeff Cooper claims to have coined the word in 1962 to describe a "mental disturbance characterized by irrational aversion to weapons". Cooper employed the clinical-sounding term as an alternative to slang terms, stating: "We read of 'gun grabbers' and 'anti-gun nuts' but these slang terms do not (explain this behavior)." Cooper attributed this behavior to the irrational fear of firearms and other forms of weaponry. He stated that "the most common manifestation of hoplophobia is the idea that instruments possess a will of their own, apart from that of their user."
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