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To gun lovers, you can't even have an opinion on assault rifles-unless it's theirs. Here's the proof
NY Daily News ^
| June 15, 2016
| Gersh Kuntzman
Posted on 06/23/2016 8:39:28 AM PDT by Zakeet
The gun debate is also a gender war.
In all my years in journalism coming up on 30 (thanks) I have never received so much angry mail as I did after yesterday's story, "What is it like to fire an AR-15? It's horrifying, menacing and very very loud."
I don't mind spirited debate, but many correspondents told me that even expressing an opinion about today's high-powered weaponry is off-limits to those of us who don't own such guns.
To reiterate, the goal of the story was simply to share with readers my experience of firing an AR-15, which very few of them have done. I found the sheer power of the weapon horrifying. I found the noise deafening and anxiety provoking. I was frightened by its potential for rapid, catastrophic, Orlando-like carnage with similiar weaponry. Using an AR-15 made me irritable and jittery for hours afterwards. To me, it felt like a bazooka.
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"Hey there Cupcake!" wrote Gary Haney. "I have never subscribed to the idea of 'gender confusion,' but after reading your article on the AR-15, I'm a believer because there is no way you and I are the same gender. You should surrender your testicles to the Department of Girlymen. I'm not sure where it's located, but your girlfriend Barack does!"
Others sent me videos of 7-, 10- and 12-year old girls firing the same weapon I fired except these kids were smiling.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; assaultweapons; banglist; guns; kuntzman; orlando
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To: Carthego delenda est
61
posted on
06/23/2016 9:42:33 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Outlaw pressure cookers, especially the large, military style ones!)
To: Zakeet
We cant even debate guns in this country, thanks to the gun lobby.Really. It's more like, you don't like getting your a** handed to you when you write a stupid column. Debate implies a process where there is a winner and loser in the marketplace of ideas. There is little market for your idiocy.
62
posted on
06/23/2016 9:43:32 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Carthego delenda est
There has to be a level below beta for this mutt.
63
posted on
06/23/2016 9:43:41 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
To: AlaskaErik
I'd win a 1 on 1 shooting duel against him and I get the .o3 Springfield.
64
posted on
06/23/2016 9:46:36 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Zarro; MeganC; AlaskaErik; Lazamataz; jonrick46
If that makes me a girl, well, maybe we should have a girl running the country.
65
posted on
06/23/2016 9:48:23 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Never Killary!)
To: Zakeet
I hate to say it, but this guy gives Pussies a bad name.
66
posted on
06/23/2016 9:48:58 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Scandals were Brains, Hillary would be the smartest person on the Planet.)
To: Zakeet; All
67
posted on
06/23/2016 9:50:21 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: Zakeet
BOO !!
68
posted on
06/23/2016 9:50:58 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
To: Zakeet
This sniveling puke has to enjoy making himself look the fool he certainly is.
69
posted on
06/23/2016 9:52:46 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: Farmer Dean
There has to be a level below beta for this mutt.I dunno, a 'zeta' male?
the infowarrior
To: Lazamataz
we really need a “right-on” button.
71
posted on
06/23/2016 9:52:55 AM PDT
by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
To: Lazamataz
72
posted on
06/23/2016 9:55:17 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Lazamataz
To: Zakeet
"Herr Kuntzman iss eine gurrrlyman."
74
posted on
06/23/2016 9:57:46 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: Zakeet
If this girly-boy thinks an AR-15 has sheer power and makes a deafening noise
don’t let him anywhere near an average deer rifle like a 30-30 or a 30.06.
75
posted on
06/23/2016 10:00:43 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: tumblindice
Too funny - I can hear that line in my head. You know you’ve arrived at lowest rung when a cartoon character can question your masculinity. Can’t fall any lower without major surgery...
76
posted on
06/23/2016 10:02:38 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Zakeet
If they ever do “come for the guns” remember, this is the perfect profile of just WHO it was that sent the SWAT Team to your house. Never forget.
77
posted on
06/23/2016 10:03:50 AM PDT
by
The Toll
To: Farmer Dean
>>There has to be a level below beta for this mutt.
That must be c-male (rhymes with female), or c-men (rhymes with um... sea men) if there’s more than one of them.
78
posted on
06/23/2016 10:05:16 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: infowarrior
'zeta' male?
That would be Omega Ω
79
posted on
06/23/2016 10:06:34 AM PDT
by
Mycroft Holmes
(The fool is always greater than the proof.)
To: KC_Lion
Me and the missus both want her in the ring.
Political one that is.
80
posted on
06/23/2016 10:07:43 AM PDT
by
BigpapaBo
(If it don't kill you it'll make you _________!)
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