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NYT Columnist: Fight Home Intruders with Bear Spray Instead of Guns
Breitbart ^ | 04/22/2023 | Awr Hawkins

Posted on 04/22/2023 2:15:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof used an April 22 op-ed to advise his readers to consider using bear spray against home intruders instead of firearms.

Kristof’s suggestion was couched in an op-ed written to persuade readers that having a gun in their home actually makes them less safe.

He claimed the idea that a gun in the home makes someone safer is actually a “delusion” and he linked to a study from 2017 to support his point.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; intruders; lol; near; spray
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Nicholas should try it first and let us know. 🙄
1 posted on 04/22/2023 2:15:10 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Why, Nick? If they’re still alive and captured, they just get released with no-bail. Free to go commit more crimes. Dead, they’re no longer a threat to anyone.


2 posted on 04/22/2023 2:17:02 PM PDT by curious7
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To: curious7

Also free to come back and exact brutal revenge on him and his family.


3 posted on 04/22/2023 2:19:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

4 posted on 04/22/2023 2:20:02 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then you’ll want to outlaw bear spray.


5 posted on 04/22/2023 2:20:36 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bear spray doesn’t even work on bears.

Y’know what DOES?

A HANDGUN. (Preferably 40 caliber or above.)


6 posted on 04/22/2023 2:25:09 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No


7 posted on 04/22/2023 2:26:07 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: curious7

Sorry nicky, I actually want to protect me and my own.

Read and heed my tagline, folks.


8 posted on 04/22/2023 2:27:45 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The home invaders obviously don’t think bear spray is a substitute for a gun, so I won’t be trading down on firepower any time soon either.


9 posted on 04/22/2023 2:28:10 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t bear spray what happens when they need to take a leak?


10 posted on 04/22/2023 2:31:25 PM PDT by sasquatch
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The home invaders obviously don’t think bear spray is a substitute for a gun, so I won’t be trading down on firepower any time soon either.

Policemen and political bodyguards obviously don’t think bear spray is a substitute for a gun, either.

11 posted on 04/22/2023 2:33:45 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Bears consider it seasoning.


12 posted on 04/22/2023 2:36:48 PM PDT by gunnut
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To: gunnut

Will bear spray go through a door or glass?


13 posted on 04/22/2023 2:39:54 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: gunnut

Will bear spray go through a door or glass?


14 posted on 04/22/2023 2:39:54 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Yea, fight off home invaders with an unlicensed bear spray and get charged with attempted murder……. Anyone want to take the other side of that bet in today’s Soros’ DA’s?

Hell a washed up actor who shoots and kills someone on a movie set has a better chance of getting off Scott free then a home owning, taxpayer with deadly bear spray…… I hope and pray any home owner in that situation has a semi automatic bear spray without the arm brace for the can……

15 posted on 04/22/2023 2:39:59 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What qualifies this skinny Harvard prick to provide home defense advise? STFU NY lib scum.


16 posted on 04/22/2023 2:41:09 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You are supposed to use bear spray inside of your own home?
It seems like you would have to evacuate the premises if you did that.


17 posted on 04/22/2023 2:50:43 PM PDT by Blueway
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In a rational world, this scenario would be the subject of TV crime drama:

“Journalist” makes these statements and is then accosted in his home by armed intruders who hand him a can of bear spray with which to defend himself.


18 posted on 04/22/2023 2:52:01 PM PDT by CTyank
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And when the bear spray inevitably wafts back and directly back onto you in in your eyes?

Bwahahahaha... Good luck with that. But hey, you do you.


19 posted on 04/22/2023 2:56:10 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If you try and stand-off a weaponized home invader with bear spray…the intruder might die laughing after he blows your head off!


20 posted on 04/22/2023 2:57:23 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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