>>What’s the word I’ve seen used? “Hopolophobe’? An irrational fear of inanimate objects.
It’s an irrational fear of weapons, coined I believe by the inimitable Jeff Cooper. If you haven’t read Cooper’s Commentaries, you should.
Hoplos is a Greek word meaning arms and armor, and is the root from which hoplite, the Greek term for a heavy infantryman, is derived.
Good info, thanks! :)