Pete Buttigieg: 'Having a Gun Made Me Feel Smaller, Not Bigger'. - Yes Pete, having a gun doesn't make your balls bigger, you need big balls to handle a gun correctly to begin with. 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. Buttigieg has expressed support for an “assault weapons” ban on some semi-automatic rifles but has resisted the more aggressive promise from Beto O’Rourke to take away AR-15s and AK-47s from gun owners with a nationwide mandatory buyback program. https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/09/23/pete-buttigieg-having-a-gun-made-me-feel-smaller-not-bigger/