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Hoplophobia – our national illness : Comments

By David Leyonhjelm, published 12/2/2026

Is Australia’s gun policy driven by facts or emotion? Three decades after Port Arthur, fear still shapes laws that facts struggle to penetrate.

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Holophobia is new to me. There is such a word, but I can't find any connections to firearms. AI suggests it's just another phobia to do with ‘holism’, and ‘holo’ as an ancient Greek weapon doesn't figure anywhere either.

Why people bulls.t and try to prove their superiority with other than plain language is extremely irritating.

And it doesn't take three pages to explain that guns in Australia are the least of our worries. Guns are inanimate items, not dangerous unless in the hands of dangerous people. And, apart from the likes of a Tasmanian lunatic, the only dangerous people in Australia are religious nutters who are beneficiaries of our reckless mass immigration policy.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 12 February 2026 9:11:58 AM
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#… dangerous people in Australia are religious nutters who are beneficiaries of our reckless mass immigration policy.…# ttbn.

Prevarication over the connection of Muslims to Islam, is the common and very dangerous point of appeasement.

Just say it…Muslims!
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 12 February 2026 10:56:00 AM
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