Posted on 04/17/2013 10:53:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
CONCORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire lawmaker apologized Wednesday for referring to women as "vaginas" in an email to his House colleagues during a debate over repealing a law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves.
"I am embarrassed, to say the least," wrote state Rep. Peter Hansen, R-Amherst, a day after saying he didn't regret the remark and had used the word for shock value.
In an email sent April 1, Hansen, who once used his gun to restrain an intruder at his home, referenced a speech given by another lawmaker, who described how he had been able to retreat without using deadly force in public.
"There were two critical ingredients missing in the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat. Not that retreat may not be possible mind you. What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina's of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims," Hansen wrote, according to messages posted online this week by liberal blogger Susan Bruce.
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Reminds me how much I hate tuna.
Just look at what blacks call each other, or gays, or women...
but let a straight white guy use the same language...!
politicians named (so appropriately) Peter .. should be especially cautious about calling anybody else any names...
HE USED BOWELS!!! No wonder they are pissed. They are bowel holes.
Reminds me how much I hate tuna.....Hey! Hey. Hey! They fight like hell.
Oop! A Republican! obviously he’s guilty! Obviously he will be forced to resign.
Change it to a democrat, and he can sexually harass a woman in the oval office and nothing will come of it.
Words, in this formerly great country, are worse than actions.
Never type anything you don’t want your mother or a jury to read. If you keep that rule, you never have to apologize for anything you’ve written. You can stand up and say “I wrote it, I meant it, and it’s the truth.”
Excellent advice.
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