Still refusing to address my questions, ElvisL1ves? That’s par for you. You are the same shit-talking weasel in every thread. You are one of this board’s longest running, and yet least funny, jokes. You are a toxic mixture of arrogance, pomposity,dishonesty, and stupidity with a generous dash of cowardice to accent your other flaws. Your father had best slammed his car door on his nads to prevent siring another cretin like you and, if he was serious about making good for having produced you, gone to do clean up at Chernobyl.
I predict if you respond at all, it will be some of your typical flatulence ( which, no doubt, sounds so lofty and intellectual inside your head) but you will never have the courage and integrity to answer my questions or to just admit you were_yet again_talking out your ass.
FTR, if you were pro-gun I would still consider you the same disingenuous shit weasel, and I would bitterly regret having you on our side.
You know fucking well, weasel. If you can’t face it squarely and honestly, that tells us all we need to know - but not all you need to know.
You then went on to describe it approvingly, and even to claim it’s a real thing! Is schizophrenia part of your complex as well, or is it merely confusion and dishonesty that’s pitifully apparent to everyone but yourself?
The word was created as a pejorative, and you would have to be an idiot to think there was a chance in hell it would be accepted as an actual medical condition by any official medical organization just because some hotheads used it over and over again talking to each other on the internet. Actual medical conditions aren’t created the same way words in the “Urban Dictionary” are, ya goofs.
The fact of the matter is that a phobia is a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.
Hoplophobia is an irrational fear of guns.
Or are you saying that irrational fear can not be applied to guns because guns are really scary.
You would have to be a special kind of idiot to think that you can have a phobia about anything else in the world except guns. But to be fair, hoplophobia usually refers to something less than the crippling condition associated with actual phobias.
Only people of a certain mindset use this word, and it is used almost always as a pejorative. If you used the word “doodyhead” it would have the same effect to those outside your circle.
I’m as anti-gun as anybody, and I don’t think I have an irrational fear of guns. I have a rational fear of everybody and his brother packing heat and the potential for one of these whack-a-doodles to cause me or my loved ones great bodily harm or death. If it makes you feel better to call me hoplophobic, go right ahead. I call gun lovers ammosexuals so it all evens out.
I agree. I have what I think is a healthy fear of guns.
And I would suggest that most of the irrational fear of guns is the result of a combination of ignorance, lack of exposure to real guns, overexposure to guns in media. Its sort of like the Asian tourist’s fear of black people. Its not like every Asian tourist has a clinical phobia but they have an ungrounded irrational fear of black people.
Your fear would be of them and their choice to use their weapons, not of their weapons specifically. And it would hardly be irrational.
Hey, DA, how much progress have you people made in getting this “condition” medically recognized in the half century since you invented it? The answer is pretty brief, isn’t it? Now why is that, d’ya s’pose?
You guys invented that silliness for the purpose of self-reassurance in the face of a confusing reality that has general moral standards against killing, standards that put you in conflict with them. Might as well suck a binky for all the good it does you.
ETA: Given your ignorance about the mental health issues you suffer from, you would be the last to know what is a “healthy” fear of guns. So don’t claim it. It doesn’t even show.
Sure its not a compliment to point out someone’s faults but some of my best friends and most of my relatives are hoplophobes. I point out that their in their back yard pool is far more dangerous to their children than the gun in my safe but they can’t seem to wrap their minds around that and would feel much more comfortable sending their kids to a home with a pool than a home with a gun.
So how would YOU describe an irrational fear that makes people more uncomfortable with small risks while being almost entirely comfortable with much larger risks even when the risks are explained to them?
It doesn’t make me feel better, it just better describes the underlying reasons for your objections. Everybody on the road drives a car with hundreds of horsepower of potential destruction and mayhem and yet, people feel more comfortable walking alongside a highway than being in the same store as someone with a gun in a holster.
It almost requires that you impute criminal intent or particularly low character on anyone that owns a gun.
I don’t ascribe invented medical conditions(that are actually insults) to people I don’t have the medical training to analyze and for the most part have never even met in the first place.
What amount of fear of assholes with the capability of killing me is “rational”? :rolleyes:
You know why people drive cars. You also know why people carry tools of death. You certainly know how laughable a comparison that is.
The supporting evidence is in the news every day. There is nothing you have offered here that suggests you yourself will never be there, and quite a bit to the contrary.
So the answer is, you have no opinion (or at least none you want to share). Do you have as much trouble describing folks who have an irrational fear of black people? What if that irrational fear is based on ignorance, lack of exposure and negative portrayals in the media?
Yep. I tell them that they are victims of their own ignorance and I explain it all to them and yet they persist in feeling more comfortable letting their kids go to a home with a pool than a home with a gun in a safe.