#Triggered
Posted on 12/03/2019 4:23:10 AM PST by marktwain
Conservative New York Post writer John Crudele wrote a column about how upset he was that a gun company dared offer its wares for Christmas. Crudele is conservative, as such things go, in New York City. He is a Donald Trump supporter and has a roughly libertarian philosophy.
I don’t have hard-and-fast rules about many things. I go by the “it is none of my business if it’s not hurting anyone” rule. You might know it as “live and let live.”
I suspect John and I would agree on many things. It takes a lot of guts to be a Trump supporter in New York City.
Unfortunately, John stepped outside his area of expertise with the column on Henry Rifles Holiday advertising. He is perfectly capable of describing his own feelings, of course. It is his unfortunate linkage of his dislike for guns with his ignorance about them which created an emotional response from many of his readers.
Sure, what a Christmas gift!
I don’t care what religion you believe in or what your feelings about guns happen to be, but this particular email should piss you off. I wish there was a more eloquent way of saying that but I can’t find it right now.
Companies like this give people who don’t like guns a reason to continue their dislike for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Stuck in the New York Bubble.
Interesting Times.
No conservative he, conSWERVative more like.
Firearms are ridiculously expensive.
Christmas woukd be the perfect occasion for one as a gift.
Sounds like a lot of Libertarians I’ve known — doesn’t like freedom, doesn’t like capitalism, doesn’t support the Constitution.
Just a Liberal, really.
I want ammo for Christmas. All set with firearms!
Afraid someone will shoot an eye out, perhaps?
>>Sure, what a Christmas gift! I don’t care what religion you believe in or what your feelings about guns happen to be, but this particular email should piss you off. I wish there was a more eloquent way of saying that but I can’t find it right now. Companies like this give people who don’t like guns a reason to continue their dislike for them.
Sounds like something “Ed Anger” would’ve written for the Weekly World News
https://weeklyworldnews.com/category/opinion/ed-anger/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Anger
The Economist described Anger’s opinions as “so vitriolically right-wing that [they] possibly came from the left”:
Anger hated foreigners, yoga, whales, speed limits and pineapple on pizza; he liked flogging, electrocutions and
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-11-9204020179-story.html
JUST WHO IS ED ANGER?
Buddy Nevins, Ft. Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
10-11-1992
“They are ruining Ed,” says Klinger, 47. “It is not really Ed. Most of these new columns are beneath Ed.”
...But Klinger is a slight, short man who didn`t look at all like the redneck Anger persona. Another reporter who wore cowboy boots and jeans was trotted out to portray Anger for visitors, testified Phillip Bunton, editorial director of Boca Raton-based Globe Communications, which publishes the tabloid Globe. Bunton worked for the Enquirer/Star Group in the 1980s...
‘’Ed Anger believes in standing up for individual rights like a real American,’’ Klinger says. ‘’With this suit, I am Ed Anger. I`m standing up to a big company. I`m living Ed for real.’’
I miss the Weekly World News of old.
And yes, of course Ed Anger was satire.
First and foremost a new Yorker is a new Yorker.
Never forget this and much of what you see in today’s current events will make sense.
#Triggered
He is as about conservative as the ‘’ conservatives ‘’ on CNN and MSNBC.
But you’ll shoot your eye out
The demonization of guns and gun makers has sunk pretty deep into the blue bubble culture. Why is a present of a gun for Christmas distasteful? Is it OK on Valentine’s day? John’s complaint is very illogical.
As for me, I would love it if Santa brought me a Henry for Christmas. They’re pretty expensive.
As a NY escapee I can provide a little perspective on Crudele’s view on guns. Living in NYC virtually everything you hear about guns is negative. Guns are only used to kill people, in robberies, child deaths etc. It’s the only message you get and it’s everywhere. Not until I moved to the South and some very patient people took me shooting did I become the strident pro gunner have been for the last 40 years. I suspect that if someone took Mr Crudele shooting, he would radically change his opinion.
Well this whole premise is bs. If he runs on a libertarian framework, he’s not a conservative.
“Conservative for NYC” means not a bona fide conservative.
He really is not a conservative so this falls into the category of "who cares what he thinks".
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