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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: rktman

Short Peter?


41 posted on 09/23/2019 5:28:10 PM PDT by northislander
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You might be right.


42 posted on 09/23/2019 5:29:02 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: AndyJackson
This is my rifle, this is my gun

Finally an issue small enough for Butty-boy to get his head around.

And he can't even a good grip on that!

43 posted on 09/23/2019 5:29:25 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: yarddog; rktman

Exactly, it’s got nothing to do with feeling anything.

It’s about protecting your ass... which, err, he apparently decides to leave, uhh, unprotected, clearly...


44 posted on 09/23/2019 5:31:13 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: jacknhoo

“Pete is small”

His “partner” is not necessarily displeased.


45 posted on 09/23/2019 5:31:41 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: rktman

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Herr Buttigieg.”


46 posted on 09/23/2019 5:32:08 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: ChildOfThe60s
"When I carry I feel somewhat safer but feel also the weight of a serious responsibility."

Exactly.

47 posted on 09/23/2019 5:34:51 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: rktman

“”veteran who served in Afghanistan in the Navy Reserves””

This may show my ignorance but I have no idea what Navy Reserve personnel would do in Afghanistan.

Have to wonder why he joined the Reserve in the first place. I wonder why we haven’t heard from anyone he served with. I can’t imagine he would have been very popular..

I’m full of “wondering” every day...


48 posted on 09/23/2019 5:35:20 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: rktman

In today’s world, it may be called;
“Go Ask Alexa”.


49 posted on 09/23/2019 5:36:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: rktman

Butt, you ARE small, and in the long run, insignificant, little Petey “Dunning-Kruger” Buttgag...Stick to what you already can’t handle like mismanaging a small city, and leave running the USA to someone who can clearly handle the task, like DJT...MAGA!

Has nothing to do with a gun, Jackass...


50 posted on 09/23/2019 5:37:19 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: rktman

being able to help defend against goverment tyranny does make me feel a more complete man, rather than servant.


51 posted on 09/23/2019 5:38:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: AndyJackson

“sense of manhood wrapped up in owning a gun.”

I’m a women who believes a gun could be important tool in my life. So do most of the things I have in my toolboxes, my sewing room, shed, kitchen and a chunk of my basement.

He’s a misogynist!!!!!

Gun control, Climate Change, emotional ploys in an attempt to welcome in government control.


52 posted on 09/23/2019 5:42:14 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: JamesP81; rktman

G-d d@mn Sigmund Freud to hell, forever. Seriously. That freak is responsible for half of the societal ills we suffer today.


53 posted on 09/23/2019 5:42:46 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the video")
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To: rktman

Safer, it makes me feel safer.

Ask anyone who’s been around someone with one when they didnt have one.


54 posted on 09/23/2019 5:43:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: rktman

That’s cause you are smaller, dork.


55 posted on 09/23/2019 5:43:29 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: rktman

“If it gets to where your sense of manhood is wrapped up in Not owning a gun, I think that’s where your counterculture is on the wrong track” said higgmeister!


56 posted on 09/23/2019 5:43:44 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: rktman

Is this why Bootyplug and Bittshine Beto are obsessed with GRABBING THEM?


57 posted on 09/23/2019 5:44:21 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: rktman
“[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.

...says the guy who thinks he knows what real manhood means.

58 posted on 09/23/2019 5:45:55 PM PDT by pigsmith (Liberals can't make the connection between their politics and the decline of everything around them.)
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To: rktman

Yes, this is my rifle and this is my “gun”..... and since i’m a “catcher in the raw” in the first place, my only concern is the “calibre” of the “gun” in use for “stimulation”.

Pete hasn’t the “vagus” idea of anything else— him being “Veteran” and everything, point of the spear and such (NOT!).


59 posted on 09/23/2019 5:47:56 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: rktman

so he has guns protecting him how small must he be?


60 posted on 09/23/2019 5:48:06 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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