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Op-Ed: What’s The Use Of Having A 2nd Amendment If I’m Not Allowed To Drive Around The Neighborhood Gunning Down Christmas Inflatables?
The Bee ^ | Dec 3, 2025 | The Bee

Posted on 12/04/2025 9:57:36 AM PST by dayglored

What good is an amendment saying we have the right to bear arms if I can't go house to house firing buckshot into every inflatable Christmas minion I see?

Look, I don't have to spend my evenings driving around the neighborhood in my 2003 Silverado, shooting high-powered ammunition into inflatable Grinches. I do it as a service to my community. I'm just an everyday, red-blooded American, trying to do his part to rid the world of these abominations. Putting up inflatables to decorate for Christmas is like celebrating your anniversary by kissing your sister. It's gross, and it doesn't even make sense. What in tarnation does a little yellow alien called a "minion" have to do with the birth of our Savior? I am well within my moral and legal rights to unload an entire magazine into this inflatable circus trying to ruin Christmas. If we can't go out and at least try save the holidays with a .30-06, are we even in America?

The Constitution was supposed to stop government overreach into the lives of private citizens like me. Well, someone tell that to Officer Billy Bob here, who says he's gonna have to arrest me if I blow away any more inflatable Rudolphs with my Ruger.

What happened to this so-called "Second Amendment" that meant no one could abridge my right to have and use guns? My rights don't stop where your unholy inflatable Christmas dinosaur starts. That amendment isn't worth the paper it's written on if out here in the real world, I can't put bullet holes through a few of those ugly inflatable Santa Clauses.

It's time for all of us to get off our keisters, get our guns, and get to shooting inflatables. We might just save Christmas and America at the same time.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; babylonbee; inflatables; satire

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The man has a point.
1 posted on 12/04/2025 9:57:36 AM PST by dayglored
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To: dayglored
> Putting up inflatables to decorate for Christmas is like celebrating your anniversary by kissing your sister. It's gross, and it doesn't even make sense.

Yuck! LOL

2 posted on 12/04/2025 9:58:39 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored
Honestly he lost me right here: "firing buckshot into every inflatable Christmas minion I see?"

Buckshot?

I mean really, isn't that a little bit drastic, when just a little .22 caliber pellet will do?

Other than that, have at it though, starting with The Simpsons and then Frosty et al.

The Bee needs to get someone on their staff who has at least some good tactical sense.

3 posted on 12/04/2025 10:02:23 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: dayglored

Oh yeah, the minions too. Maybe even before Frosty.


4 posted on 12/04/2025 10:02:55 AM PST by OKSooner (We are all mortal... But Jim and his website have made a significant difference in my life. RIP)
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To: dayglored

Don’t forget the dinosaurs wearing stocking hats and matching scarves.

What dinosaurs have to do with Christmas is a true Mystery to me.


5 posted on 12/04/2025 10:05:58 AM PST by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: left that other site
Some folks around here (Massachusetts) are just putting a Santa Hat onto their 12-Foot Halloween Skeleton and calling it a day.


6 posted on 12/04/2025 10:11:54 AM PST by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: dayglored
Putting up inflatables to decorate for Christmas is like celebrating your anniversary by kissing your sister.

Do you have any Eid or Ramadan inflatables for Ilhan Omar?

7 posted on 12/04/2025 10:12:57 AM PST by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: dayglored

Neighbor has an inflatable Trump with a santa hat holding a make America Great again sign
Surprised a nut case hasn’t run it over


8 posted on 12/04/2025 10:15:35 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: dayglored

Is this supposed to be funny?


9 posted on 12/04/2025 10:20:55 AM PST by oil_dude
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> Is this supposed to be funny?

It's satirical. That's related to, but certainly not identical to, funny.

10 posted on 12/04/2025 10:22:10 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored

Modern life. More people put up lights for Halloween than for Christmas these days.

Christmas displays go up in stores the 5th of July these days.

Commercialism, materialism, and stupity reign supreme.

I miss the 1960s. Bigly.


11 posted on 12/04/2025 10:23:10 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: dayglored

The inflatables look like garbage. Trash people with trash lawns, but hey, it’s still a somewhat partially free country.


12 posted on 12/04/2025 10:25:59 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: left that other site

LOL...who knew those 12-foot skeletons would turn out to be so versatile?


13 posted on 12/04/2025 10:27:49 AM PST by Yardstick
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> The inflatables look like garbage. Trash people with trash lawns, but hey, it’s still a somewhat partially free country.

"I like my minions a little on the trashy side."

You just wait. "Tacky" is making a comeback....

14 posted on 12/04/2025 10:39:27 AM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Yardstick

American Ingenuity! 😁


15 posted on 12/04/2025 10:40:55 AM PST by left that other site ( For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; He will save us Is.33:22)
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To: dayglored

We bought a Minion as a joke and put it in our daughter’s living room while she was out.

Somehow it ended up back at our house.

We got it on clearance for less than $20, so I’m not too concerned with its disposition.

For the record, we don’t do inflatables at our house, except for the aforementioned gag.


16 posted on 12/04/2025 10:43:37 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Joe Boucher

Hopefully it’s mounted to a bollard.


17 posted on 12/04/2025 10:45:59 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: dayglored

He does at that.


18 posted on 12/04/2025 10:46:41 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: dayglored
get our guns, and get to shooting inflatables.

Guns?!?!?!

RPGs! LAWS! Grenade launchers! Mortars! Artillery! The MOAB!

W-88s! (Go big, or go home)

19 posted on 12/04/2025 10:50:17 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: dayglored

“If we can’t go out and at least try save the holidays with a .30-06, are we even in America?” Dude, you’re way under gunned you need at least a .338 Lapua.


20 posted on 12/04/2025 10:52:53 AM PST by kawhill (And the sea will bring each man new hope as sleep brings dreams of home. C.C.)
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