In The Aggregate - Arizona's political blogs » gun law http://tucsoncitizen.com/in-the-aggregate Sat, 25 May 2013 14:45:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 HOPLOPHOBIA: Gun Fear—The Most Dangerous of All Phobias http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/05/02/hoplophobia-gun-fear-the-most-dangerous-of-all-phobias/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hoplophobia-gun-fear-the-most-dangerous-of-all-phobias http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/05/02/hoplophobia-gun-fear-the-most-dangerous-of-all-phobias/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hoplophobia-gun-fear-the-most-dangerous-of-all-phobias#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:22 +0000 Guest Contributor http://www.westernfreepress.com/?p=116932 by Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D., ABPP and Alan Korwin, Author, Gun Laws of America

First in a series

Is Hoplophobia Real?

 

Abstract: Hoplophobia, the morbid fear of guns, is a real, extremely dangerous, widespread and clinically recognizable complex specific phobia with a number of unique characteristics, described. It has caused and continues to cause grievous harm in America. Dr. Sarah Thompson, M.D., author of two seminal papers on gun phobia, claims hoplophobia is little more than name calling and rare, points we dispute.

Because one of the ...

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