Saturday, November 01, 2014

Disarmenter or Disarmist?



I have recently started using the term "disarmenter".   It was derived from a combination of disarm and demented.

Tomkat, on freerepublic, suggested that the term disarmist was less clumsy and easier to use.   Which  do you think would be the better term?

dis·arm·en·ter (ds-ärmn-tr)  alt.  dis·arm·ist     (ds-ärmst)
n.

1. A political operative who works to disarm political opposition through the use of irrational and/or emotional arguments.

2. A person who believes that disarming citizens will reduce crime or unjustified violence, in spite of contrary evidence or facts.

3. A person who wishes to disarm others because they do not trust themselves to bear arms responsibly.

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5 comments:

Luke said...

Disarm and Demented. I suspected the term was a combination of Disarm and Torment, since I first saw you use it in the post about the MDA goon tormenting the OC guy in the gas station.

Anonymous said...

Disarmoron is more apt.

Anonymous said...

Disarmoron would be a little more apt.

Anonymous said...

I like Disarmunist. It has a certain ring of truth to it.

Kevin R.C. O'Brien said...

Dean, I call them "bansters." Although Jeff Cooper's classical-sounding neologism works, too: "hoplophobes."