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  • Disarmenter or Disarmist?

    11/04/2014 12:02:58 PM PST · by marktwain · 25 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 1 November, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    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...
  • What is a Disarmenter?

    10/25/2014 6:49:26 AM PDT · by marktwain · 4 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 20 October, 2014 | Dean Weingarten
    dis·arm·en·ter (ds-ärmn-tr) 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. I have long considered various descriptions of people who push to disarm others, in spite of facts, logic, and historical evidence.  Several titles have been used; none have been completely satisfactory.  To be useful, the nomenclature cannot be so...