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SNL "Guns" skit misses target, and hits Bullseye
Ammoland ^ | 13 October, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 10/13/2015 9:38:42 AM PDT by marktwain

The Saturday Night Live (SNL) “Guns” skit was actually pretty funny, according to 83% of viewers who voted on it in an online poll.  It is not hard to see why it received an 83% rating.   Its message is completely ambiguous and will be taken different ways by different people.  This is good comedy but bad politics for disarmists…

It aired on 11 October, 2015.   The skit is being advertised as a way to promote Comedienne Amy Schumer’s (yes, she is related to the infamous disarmist Charles Schumer) disarmist campaign.   She obviously thinks that what the skit shows is so over the top as to advocate for much stricter limits on gun ownership.

What most of Americans see is a parody on how common and ubiquitous guns have been and become in American society.   As anti-gun advocacy, the SNL “Guns” skit is a complete bust, and is likely counterproductive.

Link to Video (2 minutes)

Most people are visual learners.  In the video, guns are presented at happy, life enhancing events.  A marriage proposal, a new love, life affirming exercise, a gift from a close family member, and the birth of a child.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunsskit; media; newyorkcity; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile; snl
SNL Skit backfires on Disarmists.
1 posted on 10/13/2015 9:38:42 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

I actually LIKED IT!.
It’s a GREAT commercial for the 2A................................


2 posted on 10/13/2015 9:43:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: marktwain

Looks like they pilfered from the movie, La Femme Nikita.


3 posted on 10/13/2015 9:44:24 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: Red Badger

The YouTube comments are great, too.


4 posted on 10/13/2015 9:48:44 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata; marktwain

I just emailed it to my circle.....................


5 posted on 10/13/2015 9:50:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

I love that half the comments on youtube are how the morons at SNL didn’t practice good gun safety etiquette.

SNL practiced “Hollyweird gun safety”


6 posted on 10/13/2015 9:52:57 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: laplata

She looks like Miss Piggy in the flesh........................


7 posted on 10/13/2015 9:54:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

I just emailed it to my circle.....................


Good idea. I’ll do that, too.


8 posted on 10/13/2015 9:56:33 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Red Badger

LOL No Muzzies are going to go near her.


9 posted on 10/13/2015 9:57:36 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: marktwain

Strange, I bought my wife a Ruger SR22 for our 27th Anniversary, and a Glock 42 for Christmas, and she had the same reaction, sans the unsafe gun handling.


10 posted on 10/13/2015 10:07:01 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
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To: Red Badger
I've seen her act. Not much shocks me, Amy Schumer photo: AS won an Emmy for 'Inside Amy Schumer', 2015 AmySchumerWonEmmy-TVGuide_zps7eccspsq.jpg but she's a real sow.
11 posted on 10/13/2015 10:28:43 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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she is a cousin to Chuck Schumer and has joined his anti-civil rights campaign.


12 posted on 10/13/2015 10:46:02 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: marktwain
How I Met Your Mother

Barney Stinson: Ted, it's a well known statistic that 83% of people married longer than six months are seeing someone on the side.

Ted: Do you know that whenever you make up a statistic you always use 83%?

Everybody uses 83% - Prime number, it sounds high, but believable

13 posted on 10/13/2015 7:08:33 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (It's funny 'cos it's trure - Homer)
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