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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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To: kawhill

Lapua? If it’s molycoated didnt L J Gibbs use that as a Marine sniper.


21 posted on 12/04/2025 11:00:04 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: dayglored
"What’s The Use Of Having A 2nd Amendment If I’m Not Allowed To Drive Around The Neighborhood Gunning Down Christmas Inflatables?"

If it was allowed, that would take all the fun out of it.

22 posted on 12/04/2025 11:09:52 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: oil_dude

Yes it is. It’s the Bee.


23 posted on 12/04/2025 11:41:27 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: dayglored

I miss Ed Anger...


24 posted on 12/04/2025 11:44:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: NorthMountain

Nuke ‘em from orbit,just the be sure.😜


25 posted on 12/04/2025 12:41:10 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: dayglored

Ar!

I can see people slavering to sue people captured on Ring cams, bursting their inflatable garbage.

Anyway I’d want one of those auto BB guns for the purpose. Quiet, cheap, unlikely to go through and do further damage.


26 posted on 12/04/2025 1:54:22 PM PST by No.6
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To: dayglored

Tik-tok challenges we’d like to see:

Recording the destruction of “Christmas” inflatables like dragons.

WTH? Just because your dragon is green, red, and white doesn’t make it “Christmasy.” It’s still a dragon.


27 posted on 12/04/2025 5:20:26 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: No.6
I'll bet a small pointed projectile like a dart would work well -- it would pierce the inflatable but lose momentum and drop to the ground inside or right behind the inflatable, so no likelihood of collateral damage. 4th Rule of Gun Safety: "Be sure of your target and what is beyond it."

The dart could be fired almost silently from a handheld device (miniature crossbow would be cool).

I guess the drawback of a dart is that a kid might get hurt if they find it, whereas a BB is pretty innocuous.

28 posted on 12/04/2025 9:43:12 PM 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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