Victim disarmament
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Victim disarmament is a pejorative term for gun control, used by those opposing it to:
- highlight gun control's ineffectiveness at disarming criminals;
- highlight the desirability of arming (prospective) victims;
- take advantage of one of the negative associations of the acronym "VD", i.e. venereal disease.
The phrase may have originated in a booklet Myths about Gun Control published in December 1992 by the National Center for Policy Analysis; a review of that booklet is the earliest example of the phrase in Usenet.
