Apparently determined to replicate the NFL’s path of recent success, alleged late night “comedians” have taken on the topic of gun control in the past week (no points for guessing which side they’re on). Also jumping on the bandwagon this weekend was Saturday Night Live.
As uproxx.com notes, ‘Weekend Update’ host Colin Jost went off on civilian gun ownership:
“The investigation into the tragedy in Las Vegas this week has sparked a larger debate In America between people who want common sense gun control and people who are wrong.”
He continued, making the following analogy: “The man owned 47 guns. No one should own 47 of anything. If you own 47 cats, you’re not a responsible pet owner, you’re a crazy cat lady. And unlike with guns, the government will actually come and take your cats away, because everyone agrees that’s insane.” Jost’s co-anchor Michael Che later joked that people shouldn’t be allowed to have more than one gun and six bullets. “If you can’t hit what you’re shooting with six bullets, then you don’t need to be shooting at it,” he said. “Learn karate or use your words!”
The once-funny SNL has come a long way from “Jane, you ignorant slut….”
Not one to let an attack on gun rights go unchallenged, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch had this to say about that:
“I’m certainly not going to take any kind of firearm lecture from people who clearly don’t either own them or have never even fired them, and don’t even understand the concept of self defense, either. This idea that you’re going to have this six round limit, and then they compared them to cats, Steve, because you know, people all over the United States, every single day successfully defend their lives using cats.”
With Ms. Loesch, the NRA has come a long way from the perception of Wayne LaPierre’s now tired “get off my lawn” routine. Loesch takes no prisoners in her support of Second Amendment Freedoms. You approve?
I approve.
Dana is the bump-fire of pro-2A reporters!
SNL is stupid and so is Dana.
So I’m trying to determine if you are half-right or all left.
Why are you even here?
SNL may be committing the worst sin, being unfunny.
More seriously, suppose your wife or aging mother has to defend herself. How many fewer bullets would you like her to have? As a side note, remember Senator Ted Kennedy’s bodyguard? 146 rounds of ammo, on his person.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-01-15/news/0190180113_1_submachine-guns-bodyguard-uzi
That’s what always happens when ‘entertainers’ turn into ideologues. Ideology is never funny. Correct, incorrect, sad maybe, necessary certainly, but never funny.
This is what happened to Jon Stewart at the Daily Show when he went all in on Obamacare. Not one funny bone to be seen after that. Then he retired and is now gone from the public eye. I wonder if he now thinks it was worth throwing away his career and reputation over….
Yes.
Crap like this SNL sketch is exactly why I no longer watch any of the entertainment establishment’s trained monkey poop-flingers.
If I do decide something they’ve done is likely to be entertaining, I’ll find a pirated version or at the very least lock out ads and scripts (Adblock & Scriptblock extensions) so as to subtract my tiny portion from their revenue stream. I can’t stop them, but I sure as hell don’t have to support them.
What I want to know is do you have to use a form 1 or a form 4 for your finger? Maybe his dad had to do a form 1 and his mother a form 4?
Dana is awesome.
NRA was crafty with this Idea, get the pig to eat itself, there by letting the Government democrats piss off the people of the gun even more, this massacre was perpetrated and facilitated by the black ops of the Democrat party in cahoots with the Muslim Radicals! why do you think the Democrats support illegal immigration from the Muslin countries they want to see chaos in this country so they can be in control from cradle too grave! cannot accomplish any sane, rational or positive help for the people it’s all abut control no freedoms except what they want too give you!
If you think Automatic fire is the way too go then do so if you can afford it! at the same time tolerate those that do not! Personally could care less, as our family fires between 500-1000 rounds a weekend, with out trigger assists , ever skip cans or make them dance hard to do with a bump fire.
Can’t have 47 of anything? Is he going to take Leno’s cars away? Just wait until he sees what the libraries are hoarding!
HUMM I THINK I WILL GO WITH THE POF REVOLUTION, SEEMS BETTER IN EVERYWAY AS WAELL AS BEING CHEAPER. JUST MY OPINION.
I agree
Everybody wants to put him in their own round hole but he is the ultimate square peg. Let’s face it. He wsn’t a loner, had successful career, and was rich. He fits in no paradigm. He is a posterboy for why gun control is ultimately futile. As a one percenter who gambled in Vegas he would have had the contacts and the money to buy what ever he needed on the black market and he colud have done it under the UK’s draconian gum laws.
Oddly enough I did watch the 1st half hour of SNL. ‘Cause I like Gal Godat. It was laugh out loud funny with zero Trump(or gun) bashing. I never watch the weekend update BS. It ended after Dennis Miller left. I believe SNL gets their marching orders from NBC. And I LOVE Dana????
That is such a stretch I can’t believe any sane person would consider it. If that was his motive why not plaster notes and letters all over the place. Where are any previous writings, rantings or protests about guns?
Just as plausible and not talked about are the fuel tanks. Maybe that was the primary target and when they didn’t explode he turned on the people.
The FBI cannot be trusted to tell the truth about this because they’ve blown all credibility in the past.
Came to the conclusion about ISIS way too quick.
I like the switch. Nice touch.
I used to own more than 47 cows. They’re easier to herd than cats, and they give more milk. There were some cats on the farm, too, but they pretty much had to fend for themselves on mice and birds.
I have nothing against cat owners, other than the fact that they tend to be insane.
Left wing terrorist amasses large collection of AR-15’s with bump fire stocks and tannerite and all the things they want banned, then shoots up a group of predominately right leaning country music fans while a bill to loosen restrictions on silencers sits in congress in order to further his political agenda…not out of the realm of possibility at all.
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A well-regulated “right of the people”?
“Primary right…to be free form gun violence”
“…shall not be infringed”?
My stomach hurts from laughing so hard. On the other hand, about half the US population would agree with Moore (uuhhh, like, dude, they already do).
Go away, troll.
All of us need to go post a comment rejecting his idea and ideology so they realize there is more of us than of them. Use their very tactics against them. Rebuke them on their own turf.
*reads this bullshit*
*facepalm*
You note that although he preserves a right to own firearms for sporing purposes and hunting, HE ELIMINATES THE RIGHT TO ARMED SELF DEFENSE. That’s right, no guns in the home, no concealed or open carry (unless you are hunting or sporting).
As I commented on another blog, his math is kind of fishy too. 90% 0f murders are committed by men, and 80% of murders are committed with stolen guns. so is he saying that men steal guns to kill their girlfriends? Who woulda thunk? This math also does not account for the fact that most of the victims of gun violence (and by that I mean nonsuicides) are black males between the ages of 14 and 23; is he saying that you have to get your gf’s permission to steal a gun to go shoot up the other gang?
Why is anyone giving credence to Rosie O’Donnell?
This is pure moronic gibberish.
His modifications defeat the purpose of having it there. Might as well just remove it than change it to his nonsensical garbage.
Side Note: who cares what Michael Moore thinks?
We should encourage all leftists to demand all 2018 candidates to endorse such a change.
Otherwise, it might become obvious the Left knows such things are impossible without losing another dozen seats in Congress.
27 words in 1787 with a quill pen… blah blah blah with a cheeto finger stained keyboard in 2017. Leave the constitution alone, what did it do to you besides allow you to make millions of dollars from 3rd rate films protected by that very document. Fool
“Nobody should own 47 of anything”
I wonder how many women and children Mr. Weinstein abused and raped over the years. Sadly I suspect it’s more than 47.
But these hacks in Hollywood and Late Night TV won’t utter a peep about that story though, will they?
Perfect response by the NRA!!! As an NRA member I support this stance 100%. Personally, I was shocked when ATF allowed bumpfire stocks but whatever – they’re useless anyway. There is a price to be paid for Las Vegas – I will gladly give the anti’s their “win” and let ATF rule again on bumpfire stocks, which will at a MINIMUM, become regulated if not banned. If any of you think this isn’t a fair trade – you are fools. If you think you can go through life without compromise – you are fools (clearly you’ve never been married). If you let the legislators handle this everything we have could be lost – the LAST thing we want is for congress to begin crafting new gun laws, I guarantee we will pay a VERY dear price if that happens. Maybe a new assault weapons ban. I lived through one and I don’t want another. As a responsible gun owner, I am not willing to fall on my sword over bumpfire stocks and I hope no one else is either. When that day comes it will be to save my guns – not some silly novelty.
Why yes… yes he could have. Had Security returned fire after taking a hit the nut bag probably would’ve offed himself, not knowing exactly what was going on he may have thought that more guards or cops were on the way. The police could’ve went in and done their damn job rather than cowering in the hallway or wherever as he fired into the crowd, would they have taken casualties? Hell yes urban fighting sucks there are always casualties but better it be someone trained and paid to deal with such situations than 559+ people in the crowd below. Instead we get this pansy assed response policy of sit by let people die while we wait on SWAT to get their asses tactically in gear and ride like operators in their operator van to operate operationally in operations of operator tempo.
Good for you, Mr. Moore. You’ve at least put a little thought into your proposal. I could rail for hours on the quality of that thinking, but I’ll refrain from doing so here.
So now take your proposal and follow the Constitutional process for ratifying an amendment. Give us a call when you get that done, OK?
Clearly the security guard was in on it and was shooting from the second window. They had an argument and he killed Paddock, then fired 200 rounds through the door, then shot himself in the leg then crawled down the hallway. He got his story mixed up.
If you’re going to designate a gun-free zone and disarm the decent folks, you should at least do your best to guarantee their safety. But of course we already know that gun-free zones are a sham.
The entire gambling business is Nevada’s bread and butter. Pass a law giving liability protection to armed hotel security to cover a few particular situations. Let each hotel/casino train up six or eight guards in the SWAT FOR A DAY entry routine. Equip them sufficiently (hire a good engineer and a SEAL or two for design work) to actually move in fast with as much self-protection as possible. It seems simple. Or get into a rent a SWAT deal and have them able to get into the hotel in two minutes. My local PD manages that…..
No more excuses for the long wait. It will cost peanuts, compared to the take.
We have a lot of feral hogs around here in central Oklahoma but you couldn’t find one to hunt no matter how much you wanted to, and trust me, I’d love to kill hogs for some landowner. The common response is there is too much liability but the state has a program to protect landowners as long as they don’t charge more than $5 or $10 for someone to hunt so that’s not a legitimate reason. I don’t know about Texas but here in Oklahoma commercial “hog hunting” companies lease up the land from farmers/ranchers and then charge folks ridiculous amounts to “hunt” a hog. It does NOTHING to control the population because they have to maintain enough of a population to keep “hunters” successful which means buying the hogs trapped by trappers and then releasing them again. If anything they are increasing the population (or at the very least maintaining it) to keep business good. Nobody wants to pay that kind of money for a hunt to come home with an empty cooler so they just keep replacing the ones killed and increasing populations in leased areas with low numbers.
I’ve wanted to hunt hogs for 20 years but I’m not paying some commercial outfit to do it and landowners won’t let anyone hunt even when the liability issue has been addressed by the state to encourage them to do so. I get that landowners are leary of letting strangers on their land with a gun to hunt but it used to be common practice with very little problems. Offer up the opportunity and ensure you’re dealing with a qualified hunter who is responsible and trustworthy instead of just denying everyone on the basis that something bad might happen. When I was young it was very common for landowners to let people hunt. We would offer meat or offer to help them in some way also as a thank you and it always worked out well. I was raised on gun safety and to respect the property of anyone that let me hunt there as if it were my own land. A landowner having problems with their hunters was so rare it was shocking to hear about and anyone who did something wrong was blackballed across the entire area. I’m not really sure how or when things changed but there’s no trust anymore. Landowners these days won’t even talk to you or get to know you to see if you could help them out with their hog problem, it’s just an automatic “sorry, no hunting, I’m not interested in discussing it, no hunting.” Sad.
It’s a no win situation and will get much, much worse until commercial hog hunting is banned and a better system put in place. For example, in Oklahoma the state arranged a website that allows hog hunters and landowners to sign up so both folks could contact each other, ask questions, get to know each other, and if the landowner was satisfied that the hunter was a trustworthy and ethical hunter he would allow them on the property . The website has been there for 2 years for sure, maybe longer, and despite several hunters signing up not one single landowner has signed up. I’m not blaming landowners, I know it probably comes like that, they have a lot on the line and it’s not fair to systematically assign responsibility. I’m just saying that maybe we need to stop thinking like folks of 2017 and start thinking like folks of pre-1990 when we trusted each other until give a reason not to instead of the other way around.
I can’t say I particularly blame Paul Blart and the Mandalay Mall Cops for not charging through the Funnel of Death at Mr. Full Auto.
I’ve worked in the military, private security, and as a police officer. I’m still wondering why casino security took so long to respond to an incident in their own building. Some of the cop bashing may be justified, but why so little concerns over private security?
SNL= “Stupid Nutjob Liberals.”
Doesn’t Jay Leno own 47+ cars…He must be “crazy”! The Government has to step in and take them all away under force of arms!
I like the smell of Hoppes #9 , an I’m glad the “old lady” left, all she did was bitch about how it smelled, and my demeanor, she didn’t realize the more she bitched dah meaner I got.
OMG! I’m NOT a firearms owner…But, I have at least 47-styles of spices and seasonings ! I must be crazy! Should that elicit an armed government response to forcefully take away my excessive spice rack !?
OMG! Wait a minute! I have over 100+ blu-rays, and DvDs in my movie collection…Would that require an armed government intervention like SNL said?!? What about PC software and PC games!?!? On, no ! Mr. Bill !
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are those gummy bears they shoot modeled after their own doughy physiques?
Don’t know. Maybe.
“These exploding spears were known as fire lances.”
As a note, a ‘fire lance’ today is usually considered a “thermal lance” and is a way to concentrate a *massive* amount of heat on a small area using Thermite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4r7OKkXmU
These idiots think that they can stave off a vote in Congress by appealing to the ATF. Problem is that all roads lead to a ban. If a stock can be called a machine gun that places it in the category of post-86 sample and automatically bans it. This then opens the door to the ATF to do exactly what SHARE act was supposed to stop – ATF over-reach.