Disarmenter or Disarmist?

Gun Watch ^ | 1 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

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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[tomkat]

Thanks for the ping, DW.
MT, didn’t mean to start a fuss .. lol

[marktwain]

You made a valid point.

Conservatives have a conversation.

Progressive issue commands.

[Disambiguator]

Naw, methinks there’s a difference here. A hoplophobe is afraid of the tools. A disarmst doesn’t fear the tools (likely owns ‘em herself and hires others to keep ‘em handy, no qualms about using them) but considers disarming others an axiomatic imperative. Pelosi is clearly the latter.

That is true, but I think most of the MDAs are of the phobic variety. The people organizing them are Nefarians who know exactly what they're up to.

[Terry L Smith]

Dear marktwain,

For those that do not fit hoplophobe, then the original label fits well, i.e.,

COMMUNIST PXXX-ANT!

[BykrBayb]

I just came upon a thread where you used the word “disarmist.” It was a new word to me, but it was obvious what it meant, so I kept reading without looking it up. I looked it up later, because I wanted to know more about this word that I was adding to my vocabulary. I was surprised not to find it in the dictionary. It feels like a word that has been around a while. Good word. It has my vote.

[marktwain]

Thanks for the kind words.