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Pete Buttigieg: ‘Having a Gun Made Me Feel Smaller, Not Bigger’
breitbart.com ^ | 9/23/2019 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 09/23/2019 5:07:57 PM PDT by rktman

Mayor Pete Buttigieg expressed his dissatisfaction with the concept of carrying a gun after serving in Afghanistan.

“Over time, I realized having a gun made me feel smaller, not bigger,” he said during a conversation about guns with a BuzzFeed reporter as part of his bus tour in Iowa.

The mayor was asked about his feelings on guns as a veteran who served in Afghanistan in the Navy Reserves but apparently did not engage in combat.

Earlier in September, Buttigieg criticized men who had their “sense of manhood wrapped up in owning a gun.”

“[I]f it gets to where your sense of manhood is wrapped up in owning a gun, I think that’s where our culture is on the wrong track,” Buttigieg said in an interview with TMZ Live.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
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To: yarddog

When I carry I feel somewhat safer but feel also the weight of a serious responsibility.

Maybe that’s what he means by “smaller”. That he is not capable of the responsibility. Which is assuming he understands the concept of personal responsibility. Which is unlikely since he is a far left loon.


21 posted on 09/23/2019 5:16:36 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: All

Why even report on what this guy says? isn’t he polling in single digits?? He’s totally unimportant...might as well report on what the hobo down the street is screaming out.


22 posted on 09/23/2019 5:17:48 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: rktman

Don’t you have a pride parade or a bath house to get to? Have you been to Blazing Saddles in Des Moines yet? Try the appletini.


23 posted on 09/23/2019 5:17:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: rktman

The REMF was an intel weeny, and had to be his Skipper’s driver. SMDH, bastard has a hatred for America.


24 posted on 09/23/2019 5:17:55 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: rktman
“Over time, I realized having a gun made me feel smaller, not bigger,” he said during a conversation about guns with a BuzzFeed reporter

This is called "knowing your audience."

25 posted on 09/23/2019 5:18:26 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: rktman
Small peter. (snort). Someone help me out here. When it come to homosexuals, smaller is better? I mean I changed my doctor because his finger was too big...
26 posted on 09/23/2019 5:18:28 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: rktman

Hey, Mayor Pete. Do your bodyguards carry guns? And what about the building security at South Bend City Hall? Do they carry guns?

If so, you should immediately disarm them. Because those guns certainly make those folks feel small. Do them all a big favor, and take their guns away from them.


27 posted on 09/23/2019 5:19:19 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: rktman

I bet Pete’s “Husband” thinks Pete has a pretty small Petey so Pete has nothing to worry about as far as feeling small


28 posted on 09/23/2019 5:20:03 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: yarddog

Hoodness gracious have ever met a democrat that didnt have mental problems?


29 posted on 09/23/2019 5:20:25 PM PDT by genghis
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To: blueunicorn6

I bet Pete has plenty of armed guards protecting his homo ass


30 posted on 09/23/2019 5:20:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rktman

One gun makes you larger,
And another gun makes you small,..


31 posted on 09/23/2019 5:20:35 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: rktman

Pete just needs a bigger holster!


32 posted on 09/23/2019 5:20:52 PM PDT by caltaxed (ake)
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To: lee martell

Go ask Alice..................


33 posted on 09/23/2019 5:22:24 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

This just adds to my theory that this entire slate of Democrat contenders does not want to get the nomination for President. Contending for the nomination is fun and profitable, but seems none actually want to go up against Trump.

There is a contingent of pro-gun Democrats. Maybe not large nor vocal, and certainly approve of “sensible restrictions”, but are in no way inclined to support an ex-military contender who not only is generally anti-gun, but obviously has psychological problems (see headline) when it comes to weapons. The Left just can’t afford to have a candidate that instantly alienates a bigger number of adherents than they need to sway their way to not get Mondaled come 2020.


34 posted on 09/23/2019 5:23:38 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: lee martell

And the ones that Petey carries don’t do anything at all.


35 posted on 09/23/2019 5:24:26 PM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: rktman
Bizarre.

His actual experience is the opposite or what he claims other people's experience is.

Does anyone else find that a bizarre argument?

36 posted on 09/23/2019 5:25:43 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: rktman

FRicking midget!


37 posted on 09/23/2019 5:25:58 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: AndyJackson

“Over time, I realized having a gun made me feel smaller, not bigger,”

“Buttigieg criticized men who had their “sense of manhood wrapped up in owning a gun.””

But if it makes them feel smaller, then are we not all safer?


38 posted on 09/23/2019 5:27:01 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: rktman

It’s because he’s a bottom.

And thus submissive.


39 posted on 09/23/2019 5:27:40 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: SgtBob

I bet my bottom dollar that he would be real scared if a competent killer came after him with even a little gun and him unarmed Say an 8 shot .22 mag.

I will admit that I would be even myself if I were unarmed. I would at least have a Spyderco with a 4.5 inch blade clipped to my belt. and another in pocket


40 posted on 09/23/2019 5:28:06 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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