Republican congressman leads criticism of female director Kimberly Cheatle
  • AliceAEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’m a woman, and I just CAN NOT with your ‘logic’ on this.

    Allow me to tell you why.

    widely shared online footage of a female agent’s apparent struggles to holster her weapon after the shooting in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

    I’ve shot a shot gun, handgun, rifle, revolver, pistol, and I think a machine gun? (At a shooting range obviously. Was on a date oddly enough lol)

    OUT OF ALL OF THOSE GUNS, DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONE I COULDNT HANDLE?

    The revolver

    I was ignorant to the incredibly powerful recoil on this gun. The smaller a gun, the more powerful the recoil is gunna be. Because as you shoot, sense the barrel and weight of the gun is less, your fucking upper body and arms take what a longer heavier gun would take in terms of after shock.

    The entire time I shot all these guns, of course, I had assistance with the dude i went on a date with he showed me and you know, assisted me and stuff.But for the most part, after I had the hang of each gun, I was holding it standing and shooting it on my own.

    But immediately when they gave me the revolver, the guy I was on a date with came and held my upper body and one of the guys that worked there held the other side of my arm that was holding the gun, I thought it was kind of ridiculous.I was really excited to shoot the little gun because it’s cute.

    That’s the gun that I wanted to buy. Because it’s smaller, and i’m girly like that.Leave me alone, all right.

    But both of them were ssisting me.I didn’t ask it was kind of annoying, and anyway when I was ready to shoot that gun it knocked me on my fucking ass.

    That first shot I was like, I don’t want to do this anymore with this gun and they kept telling me not to give up so I went ahead and tried it again and I could not handle that gun. I only tried it 2 more times after that. Because they were encouraging that I could do it, and I was so angry and upset that gun That little itty bitty, gun, it’s so powerful. You could blow your damn hand off and break your own nose.

    Not to mention, I have extremely weak upper body strength, especially in my arms, especially in my arms, they are the hardest part of my body to work out. I can use like 5 pound. Weights, for maybe like 10 cent. Sets before my arms give out, I hate it.

    Women have stronger lower body strength. Men have stronger upper body strength. Okay. So the point that they’re making about her not being able to handle her firearm. Yeah, that’s an issue. Okay.I’ve experienced it myself, so don’t try to make light of it

  • retrospectology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    Funny thing is, there was video of a sniper literally watching the shooter as he climbed up on the roof, he only shot after the shooter started shooting. That’s why he was killed so quickly. The sniper was a guy.

    So, by Republican logic, I guess we should have less male agents, right? Since male snipers just inherently can’t pre-empt a shooter even when they’re looking directly at them.

    (Sarcasm, obviously)

    • Illuminostro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      An idiot at my local bar who thinks it’s badass to pick fights with feminists on Facebook told me yesterday that the reason the assassin wasn’t immediately killed was because the SS sniper was waiting for permission from his female N-bomb boss. There are people who actually believe this.

  • NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Bridge fails in Baltimore? Too much effort on diversity.

    The only road into Jackson Hole WY gets washed away? I guess the federal government has forsaken red states.

  • Illuminostro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    My father was so racist he couldn’t have a 5 minute conversation without talking shit about black people. But he didn’t call them black people. He used the N-bomb. Always. That’s not hyperbole.

    It was so predictable that my older brothers and I used to joke “If the sun doesn’t rise tomorrow, it will be a N-bomb’s fault” after one of my father’s many, many rants. That was sarcasm, for those of you who can’t recognize it.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      I remember 9/11/2001.

      After the attacks, the GOP was pushing two ideas at the same time. Clinton was responsible for 9/11 because he’d had opportunities to kill bin-Ladn while he was President AND that Bush shouldn’t be held responsible because he’d only been in office for 9 months.