[DoodleBob]

Does Skynyrd get a pass?

[bk1000]

It wasn’t anti-gun. It was specifically about the $20 throwaway “Saturday Night Special”.

[rdcbn1]

Saturday night specials of the sort that were the subject of the Skynard song no longer exist for all practical purposes.

[HandBasketHell]

The 70s were a time when the Democrats were the ones who were seen to be concerned about the poor man, and the Republicans were all of the country-club variety.

It's hard to translate anyone's support of a political party from the 70s to today, since the party platform has radically changed.

[notdownwidems]

...gimme back my bullets

[hardspunned]

Gimme Three Steps anti gun?

[rey]

Wasn’t that song followed a year later with their song Guve Me Back My Bullets?

[newfreep]

“Every time I sing Saturday Night Special,” Johnny (Van Zant) adds, “I feel the power in those words that Ronnie wrote. There are too many guns in America.

Sounds like Johnny is a leftwing "gun-grabber" communist.

[T.B. Yoits]

‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’ by The Beatles

[Fireone]

An old Dr. Demento favorite: Everybody Run, the Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3yGdQYwqg

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No.

The message was "unless you have enough money to buy a handgun of a certain quality you have no right to buy something cheap to defend yourself".

It is the same classism that is behind all gun control. Only people of certain economic standing should be able to be armed.

Funny, but I do not find that in the Second Amendment.

[from occupied ga]

Typical antigun bullsqueeze “nuanced” my aunt fanny

[SuperLuminal]

Not according to Fox news, which is now writing him off, ever so subtly...

[SauronOfMordor]

A cheap gun is EXACTLY the type that would be bought by a poor person as a “just in case” gun. It is cheap enough to buy on impulse and keep in your nightstand drawer.

Similarly, the tirades against “assault weapons” got started when lots of surplus Chinese SKS rifles became available for about $90 back in the early 1980s. They were the kind a regular person would buy on impulse and stick in the closet “just in case”.

This alarmed the people who prefer a disarmed population.

[Chewbarkah]

Seems like Skynard released a song and album called “Gimme Back My Bullets” after some blowback.

[Organic Panic]

Much better to use an expensive stolen Kimber when committing crimes than a cheap Jennings....Is that the message?

[Paal Gulli]

Imagine what a wonderful world this would be if we only let people who were pop musicians write all the laws.

[NorthMountain]

Those cheap handguns were no good for hunting or anything else – they were just made to kill people.

And they were the only self-defense tools that poor people could afford. Accordingly, the ruling class saw an opportunity to deny some folks the ability to defend themselves ... and jumped on it. Because that's how the ruling class wants YOU: poor, defenseless, and at utterly at their mercy (of which they have none).