The Cure For What Ails Some Of You
Whispering Legs
20-05-2005, 15:13
Hoplophobia is officially a disease. And luckily for some of you, there's a cure.
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?SDID=4203:1603
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 15:20
I'm no hoplophobe. I'm very tolerant.
Yeah, because being afraid of things designed to kill or injure is such a bad thing. :rolleyes:
Whispering Legs
20-05-2005, 15:25
Yeah, because being afraid of things designed to kill or injure is such a bad thing. :rolleyes:
Sit down, we know you're ill.
Sit down, we know you're ill.
To my stomach over this, yes.
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 15:27
Yeah, because being afraid of things designed to kill or injure is such a bad thing. :rolleyes:
Dude, that's a hatefull stereotype. Stuff like this should have no place in a multicultural society.
Psychotic Mongooses
20-05-2005, 15:28
"a surprisingly common phobia"...?
Gee, who'da thunk anyone was afraid of a gun :D
Whispering Legs
20-05-2005, 15:29
To my stomach over this, yes.
It's curable, you know. Guaranteed.
Psychopathic Warmonger
20-05-2005, 15:29
"a surprisingly common phobia"...?
Gee, who'da thunk anyone was afraid of a gun :D
GUNS?!?!?!?! :eek:
Psychotic Mongooses
20-05-2005, 15:32
"Not me, i'm not afraid of anything"
"Oh, yeah, SOCK PUPPETS!"
"AAGGHH! WHERE?! WHERE!?"
:D
It's curable, you know. Guaranteed.
It's not a disease and needn't thus be "cured".
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 15:34
"a surprisingly common phobia"...?
Gee, who'da thunk anyone was afraid of a gun :D
Some people are irrationally afraid of guns. They start to feel afraid if they're alone in the same room with a gun. It's as if they feel the gun will jump up and start randomly shooting on it's own.
Psychopathic Warmonger
20-05-2005, 15:36
Some people are irrationally afraid of guns. They start to feel afraid if they're alone in the same room with a gun. It's as if they feel the gun will jump up and start randomly shooting on it's own.
I think he was being sarcastic.
Legless Pirates
20-05-2005, 15:39
There's no such thing as a guaranteed cure
EDIT: except maybe death
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 15:42
I think he was being sarcastic.
I know, but I assumed the point to his sarcasm was that it's completely reasonable and acceptable to be afraid of guns.
I deffinantly do not have Hoplophobia. The desert eagle I will be picking up soon should be proof enough of that. What does scare me is those drug dealers a couple of appartments down.
Many people having Hoplophobia is by no means suprising. The media has a very anti-gun bias as excels at scaring the uneducated public. Then again, the media has a piss-poor track record of having one crusade after another against something.
Legless Pirates
20-05-2005, 16:08
I deffinantly do not have Hoplophobia. The desert eagle I will be picking up soon should be proof enough of that. What does scare me is those drug dealers a couple of appartments down.
You have dealerphobia. It can be cured
:rolleyes:
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 16:11
You have dealerphobia. It can be cured
:rolleyes:
Yeah. Just start buying drugs from them. Then instead of being afraid when you see them you'll just crave crack.
I'm not afraid of guns. I'm afraid of people with guns.
What's that phobia named?
(What's the name of the psychotic obsession of guns? Oh, I forget, there is no such thing as psychotic obsession of guns. :rolleyes: )
Whispering Legs
20-05-2005, 16:45
Even Freud thought that a fear of weapons was a disease.
Sabbatis
20-05-2005, 17:39
Even Freud thought that a fear of weapons was a disease.
A bit of an understatement:
"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." Sigmund Freud -- General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
No offense intended. But those are his words on the subject.
I'm not afraid of guns. It's the bullets you need to worry about.
Hoplophobia, the worst disease.
You can't shoot who you want to shoot in times like these.
Drunk commies reborn
20-05-2005, 19:26
Even Freud thought that a fear of weapons was a disease.
Yeah, but Freud was an unscientific cocaine addicted quack.
Yeah, but Freud was an unscientific cocaine addicted quack.
Without Freud, we would have never had Neon Genesis Evangelion. Let's face it, if Eva had been based on behaviorism rather than psychoanalysis, it would have been complete shit.
There's a difference between being afraid of guns in the context of an armed, loaded, and brandished weapon, as opposed to just a gun sitting there. I'm afraid of the first, not the second - but the second certainly enables the first. I'm not against the right to own firearms, I'm against reckless ownership - mandatory certification in their use before a license to own a firearm would be nice, although banning the weapons seems overboard. Then again, I would support banning rocket launchers and sniper rifles for the general public - there is a limit.