I agree, disarmenter does not work as well.
I’m still partial to hoplophobe. It’s a very accurate description of these people. They’re a afraid of tools.
Kind of sounds like “disarmamenter” is intended. But like the word banana, it is easy to spell, not so easy to stop.
I’d suggest the term “disarmunist” rather than either of those.
That said, I do think that “disarmist” is preferable to “disarmenter”. While those people truly are demented, connecting what they’re doing with their mental state makes the latter term unnecessarily clumsy. (The same could probably said about “disamunist” as well.)
I tend to use Lt.Col. Jeff Cooper’s term:
HOPLOPHOBE.
Since anytime a Demoncrat attacks anyone defending their Bill of Rights gets attacked as a “phobe”, send it right back at them!
Since a Freeper suggested “disarmist”...gonna have to go with that.
Besides, it rhymes with “alarmist”.
“Alarmist Disarmist” kind of rolls of the tongue. (And no, I can’t say that three times real fast.)
Why not use COL Jeff Cooper’s term “hoplophobe” — irrational fear of weapons. That pretty much covers it, I think.
DISARMENTATOR- a disarming dictator.
One who arms is an armorer.
One who disarms is thus a disarmorer.
But I prefer hoplophobe because it has a nice perjorative sound to it.
I've been seeing that word a lot lately, and have wondered where it came from, or if it was an actual English word.
Thanks for the explanation. I think I like 'disarmist' better. The construction sounds more logical.
Since you asked, I prefer disarmist.
In any case, thank you for your dedication to this topic. I’m here every day, and I read every one of your posts.
I’ve got an even better one: Disarmophile.
Ping.
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.