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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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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,...

Well we know what his lips are wrapped around many times a week so his opinion doesn’t matter AT ALL.


61 posted on 09/23/2019 5:48:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: rktman

He is a midget with or without a gun!


62 posted on 09/23/2019 5:48:36 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: rktman

A... “naval reserve” “intelligence” officer who mainly was a “driver” (he called it “Uber” for the CO). Yeah, some warrior, RE—@F’ee. Big man, with little man syndrome. The worst of the worst— little too much time with the goat greasers.


63 posted on 09/23/2019 5:51:52 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: AndyJackson

His sense of manhood is shoved up another guys poop chute..disgusting.


64 posted on 09/23/2019 5:52:04 PM PDT by Starcitizen (American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
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To: rktman
Over time, I realized having a gun made me feel smaller, not bigger

And your inadequacies have what to do with the gun discussion?

Lemme see. I hate brussel sprouts. Nobody should have brussel sprouts.

Got it.

65 posted on 09/23/2019 5:52:09 PM PDT by LouAvul
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To: Hardastarboard

Dude...


66 posted on 09/23/2019 5:52:59 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

The fact that a gun makes you feel anything pegs you as a pervert.

I’ve been carrying for fifteen years, and no one has ever known.

I’m refuse to be a helpless victim.

Simple as that.


67 posted on 09/23/2019 5:54:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: rktman

68 posted on 09/23/2019 5:55:35 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: rktman
Yes, I'm sure women own guns so they can feel bigger, Buttgig, 'cause that's what owning guns is all about.

What a horse's ass!

69 posted on 09/23/2019 5:55:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: rktman

I don’t think I’m comfortable with being lectured on what would constitute manhood by someone who is obviously very unhappy with having been born a male.


70 posted on 09/23/2019 6:00:06 PM PDT by The Bishop (Forgive me Lord, for sometimes I do speak my mind.)
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To: rktman

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

That’gs why fruits like you shouldn’t be in anybody’s military. Normal people feel the same size.


71 posted on 09/23/2019 6:03:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rktman

Pete is a douche bag.
He likes the pole and the hole, an abomination to God.

Jesus loves him but, I hope he gets a big tear in his colon.

Sorry Lord, this is my confession, repenting is difficult, I have to say.


72 posted on 09/23/2019 6:03:44 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: rktman
Isn't this the goof with the size 12 anus?

I've been shooting since I was 7. That's 62 years and counting. I have yet to "feel" anything with a rifle, other than recoil, or some apprehension that something will step in front of the muzzle that I would regret destroying...

So, is heightened awareness an emotion?

73 posted on 09/23/2019 6:04:13 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: rktman
Well, Sodomite, you should have stayed in the bath house, shouldn't have you? Did you think they were going to give you water-filled condoms to throw? Twink.

Sorry, but I can't be bothered to be lectured by a pretentious faggot.

74 posted on 09/23/2019 6:04:28 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: rktman

I have a wire cutter that makes me feel small.


75 posted on 09/23/2019 6:06:41 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: rktman

And having a gun makes me feel like I don’t have to be a victim. Back to you, Mayor Smalls.

Oh, and Molon Labe you socialist pr**k.


76 posted on 09/23/2019 6:09:05 PM PDT by iceskater
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To: rktman
the only time that little sh1t carried a rifle was for the pictures of him holding it...
77 posted on 09/23/2019 6:12:48 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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To: escapefromboston

Does he have armed security guards protecting him? How does that make him feel?


78 posted on 09/23/2019 6:15:53 PM PDT by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: rktman

Go back to your small town and play mayor.

79 posted on 09/23/2019 6:16:47 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Taxman
He is a mental midget with or without a gun!
80 posted on 09/23/2019 6:32:18 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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