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- noun Plural form of
hoplophobe .
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Examples
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The article is hilarious and I am going to link to it in every stupid thread where hoplophobes are freaking out about the new law.
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I can easily see hoplophobes doing “time share” rifles to avoid having to pony up and keep the Evil Nasty Killing Machine in their own house.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Another good night for the Second Amendment 2009
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When you require registration of lawfully-owned guns, you are creating an apparatus that (a) has never been of any meaningful use to legitimate law enforcement efforts; and (b) has enormous potential for abuse by overzealous law enforcement, hoplophobes, nanny statists, and other assorted busybodies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The most important right to arms vote of 2009 2009
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Wow, the stupidity of the hoplophobes runs rampant!
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* It's one of those quotes that the hoplophobes really don't like people to remember.
Irons in the Fire 2010
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From the perspective of the mandatory pacifists and the other fanatical hoplophobes, the measure was intelligently tyrannical math: add the outpatient gun ban to the longstanding prohibition against firearms ownership by people adjudicated incompetent or insane, and you had forcibly disarmed all but a tiny minority of veterans and at least 60 percent of the overall civilian population.
Crosscut Austin Jenkins 2010
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From the perspective of the mandatory pacifists and the other fanatical hoplophobes, the measure was intelligently tyrannical math: add the outpatient gun ban to the longstanding prohibition against firearms ownership by people adjudicated incompetent or insane, and you had forcibly disarmed all but a tiny minority of veterans and at least 60 percent of the overall civilian population.
Crosscut Austin Jenkins 2010
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Because Starbucks is attracting increasing numbers of gun owners - presumably becoming the kind of loyal customers about whom Helmke writes - he wants the coffee chain to ban these people, in deference to his own ilk of hoplophobes.
Latest Articles 2010
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Allowing hoplophobes to be involved in setting Second Amendment policy is like assigning people afraid of water to be lifeguards - they'd never let anyone swim!
BlogWonks 2010
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Same arguments for disarming the citizens the hoplophobes and statists use here, and just as full of crap.
Irons in the Fire 2010
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