"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
— Firearm

January 1, 1970

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This has been sourced to General Introduction to Psychoanalysis [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.politics.guns/msg/4ad060e213bc5b6b [http://groups.google.com/group/can.talk.guns/msg/a57bc07124e64fba due to a misreading of a 1990 essay by Don B. Kates . The quote is Kates' own characterization of a passage in Freud and Oppenheim, Dreams in Folklore, and not Freud's words.