What is a Disarmenter?

Gun Watch ^ | 20 October, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

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 long as to be unwieldy.   It has to be easily understood.   It makes no sense to allow those who use irrational arguments to define the language.  Some candidates have been:

Anti-gun proponents, anti-second amendment proponents, those who push for citizen disarmament, those who want to disarm their political opponents, nanny statists, statists, fascists, gun controllers, gun grabbers, and control freaks.   They are all less than satisfactory.

An alternative might be disarmenter.   It succinctly captures the intent, disarmament, with the irrationality, demented.  As a single word, it is easier to use than a phrase, such as "proponents of citizen disarmament".

Senator Dianne  Feinstein, pictured above, fits the first of the proposed definitions, and may fit the second.    As she carried a gun for self protection, at least for a period of time, the third definition does not seem appropriate.


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[marktwain]

The more that I study the attempts to disarm populations, the more that I am convinced that much of the motivation is purely emotional and not rational.

It there is any rationality, it is simply the dislike for some unarmed people to be around armed people. It makes them feel inferior.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I believe the aim of disarming the public is to give the government a monopoly on power. These people are not emotionally or irrationally reacting, but very calculating. The implementers use the emotionally immature, irrational liberal losers and the complicit media to unwittingly further their agenda, disguised as an effort to help us all live safer lives.

[rockrr]

I think more accurately 1 and 3. I doubt that she has the slightest sincere concern about “reduce(ing) crime or unjustified violence” - if she did she would be open to an honest exploration of cause/effect.

She’s a typical leftist - all appearances and zero substance. It’s all an act.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

“Disarmenter” works on another level, in that it sounds similar to the Harry Potter series monsters, the “Dementors.”

“Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself, soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.”

“They are often referred to as “soul-sucking fiends”.

[marktwain]

Yes, that works. It is a good cultural referent.