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'''Hoplophobia''' (colloquially known as '''[[gun]]-a-[[phobia]]''') is a [[neologism]] coined by renowned [[conservative]] [[firearm]]s trainer Col. [[Jeff Cooper]] to describe an "[[rational|irrational]] aversion to weapons."<ref name="cooper-to-ride">{{Cite book | last1 = Cooper | first1 = Jeff | title = To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth | year = 1990 | publisher = Paladin Press | location = Boulder, Colorado | pages = 16–19 | url=http://www.usrepeals.org/ca/mtbpers/hoplophobia.html }}</ref> The term was constructed from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ὅπλον - ''hoplon'', meaning, among other things, "arms,"<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%28%2Fplon ὅπλον], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> and φόβος - ''phobos'', meaning "fear."<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dfo%2Fbos φόβος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref>
 
'''Hoplophobia''' (colloquially known as '''[[gun]]-a-[[phobia]]''') is a [[neologism]] coined by renowned [[conservative]] [[firearm]]s trainer Col. [[Jeff Cooper]] to describe an "[[rational|irrational]] aversion to weapons."<ref name="cooper-to-ride">{{Cite book | last1 = Cooper | first1 = Jeff | title = To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth | year = 1990 | publisher = Paladin Press | location = Boulder, Colorado | pages = 16–19 | url=http://www.usrepeals.org/ca/mtbpers/hoplophobia.html }}</ref> The term was constructed from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ὅπλον - ''hoplon'', meaning, among other things, "arms,"<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%28%2Fplon ὅπλον], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> and φόβος - ''phobos'', meaning "fear."<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dfo%2Fbos φόβος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref>
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That [[fear]] includes more specifically [[firearms]], the [[Second Amendment]] and [[citizen]]s exercising their [[unalienable rights]] to [[self-defense]] and defense against [[tyranny]] under such.  
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That blind [[fear]] includes more specifically [[firearms]], the [[Second Amendment]] and [[citizen]]s exercising their [[unalienable rights]] to [[self-defense]] and defense against [[tyranny]] under such.  
    
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