To gun lovers, you can't even have an opinion on assault rifles-unless it's theirs. Here's the proof

NY Daily News ^ | June 15, 2016 | Gersh Kuntzman

[Zakeet]

The gun debate is also a gender war.

In all my years in journalism — coming up on 30 (thanks) — I have never received so much angry mail as I did after yesterday's story, "What is it like to fire an AR-15? It's horrifying, menacing and very very loud."

I don't mind spirited debate, but many correspondents told me that even expressing an opinion about today's high-powered weaponry is off-limits to those of us who don't own such guns.

To reiterate, the goal of the story was simply to share with readers my experience of firing an AR-15, which very few of them have done. I found the sheer power of the weapon horrifying. I found the noise deafening and anxiety provoking. I was frightened by its potential for rapid, catastrophic, Orlando-like carnage with similiar weaponry. Using an AR-15 made me irritable and jittery for hours afterwards. To me, it felt like a bazooka.

[Snip]

"Hey there Cupcake!" wrote Gary Haney. "I have never subscribed to the idea of 'gender confusion,' but after reading your article on the AR-15, I'm a believer because there is no way you and I are the same gender. You should surrender your testicles to the Department of Girlymen. I'm not sure where it's located, but your girlfriend Barack does!"

Others sent me videos of 7-, 10- and 12-year old girls firing the same weapon I fired — except these kids were smiling.

[Zakeet]

You bad old dirty rotten mean right old wing nuts!

The poor idiot newser ... he was emotionally scarred for life because his barrel shrouded death stick felt like a bazooka when he fired it ... it sounded like a cannon ... it emptied a 40-round clip in less than five seconds on full auto ... it bruised his shoulder ... the brass shell casings disoriented him as they flew past his face ... he was anxious and irritable for at least an hour after firing the deadly weapon only a few times ... the smell of sulfur and destruction made him sick ... and now he suffers from PTSD!

And then you called him a cupcake ... and a sissy ... and a girlyman ... and a pussy ... and said he needed to have Obamacare transplant a pair on him ... and you trained their laser sights on his masculinity - often in graphic terms that would sound more appropriate in a magazine about erectile dysfunction or an ad for Depends ... and that caused him to fire a .50 BMG ... and look what happened next!

You bad old Freepers!

[Lazamataz]

[rockrr]

pawnd

[dirtboy]

The butthurt is strong with this one.

[LostInBayport]

I can’t believe he isn’t used to mockery with that last name.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Poster boy for the National Association of Girly Men.

[Snickering Hound]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Gersh Kuntzman ?
Really ?

[Personal Responsibility]

Aren’t we constantly told that we can’t understand black experience unless we are black? Women experience unless we are women etc...? That “communities need to be policed by people who look like the community”? Isn’t the standard they set “You have no right to talk about something unless you personally live/experience it”

Again, the liberals set the standard and then cry when held to that standard.

[Zarro]

If that makes me a girl, well, maybe we should have a girl running the country.

TOO LATE!

[Boogieman]

“To reiterate, the goal of the story was simply to share with readers my experience of firing an AR-15, which very few of them have done.”

Liar, you wanted to villify this “evil black gun” in the minds of your readers, to make them less willing to defend their constitutional rights to own one.

[T-Bird45]

If this doosh (sic - I know the real spelling, this “guy” doesn’t deserve it) had the first effin’ idea what a bazooka really was and how it worked, he’d know why he’s being ridiculed for that description. He’d then further understand why he received the photos of the little girls and their pink camo rifles that are having the time of their lives while shooting with family. As it is, all he’s done is earn another full round of ridicule from the same people that called him out in the first place.

[SoothingDave]

Doubling down on his wimpiness.

[thorvaldr]

Crybully

[Vaquero]

Gash Whatsman? Great name.

To Kuntzman and all his ilk

Poo

[broken_arrow1]

Ooooooh - scarey....

[Mr. Mojo]

"I drove a Prius once and it changed me forever. As soon as I climbed inside the minimalist brutalist interior of this carbon fiber Japanese death machine. it was as if I was driving a monster truck. I pushed start. The engine was a throaty roar like a thousand nuclear jet bombers. I immediately soiled my trousers to prevent this beast of the land of hentai from raping me. Tentacles are NOT OKAY. In my haste to escape, I touched a lever, and the windshield wipers began beating like a reaper’s sickle threshing horror. Trying to reach the escape handle, I struck a phallus-like pole, and lights began to blink. Blink. Blink. A light. A terrible, red, light! BLINK BLINK! Shrieking and flailing, I clutched desperately at the door, and tumbled, helpless, into the street. In the cold New York City rain, I lay there helpless and soiled in the gutter. The terrifying Prius looming over me, asserting its alpha dominance, and I crawled away. Forever."

- Gersh Kuntman

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[JBW1949]

Gersh...When walking down the sidewalks in New York City and a car backfires, do you curl up in a little ball and whimper???

[Lazamataz]