Did you see the new ad the NRA rolled out yesterday in response to the public outcry for stricter gun control laws following the Newtown massacre? Oh, it’s a goddamn doozy.
“Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” a deep-voiced narrator asks. “Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school? Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes, but he’s just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security.”
Yeah. Oh yeah. Watch it below…
Naturally, Jon Stewart — fresh off of one of the best Daily Show segments of his career in the form of a recent monologue on gun control — could not let this pass, lamenting that the NRA is so ridiculous that it almost feels like an “elaborate, avant-guard, Joaquin-Phoenix-style joke … or a false-flag operation run by Michael Moore in an attempt to discredit responsible gun owners.”
Here’s part one…
And here’s part two…
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Funny that none of these ass-clown NRA jerkasses were asking the same thing about any of the previous Presidents or their families. I wonder what’s so DIFFERENT about Obama that could have set off so many Klansmen—-errrr…..NRA members and officials.
I’m thinking that what’s DIFFERENT is that those other presidents didn’t openly say they wanted stricter gun control laws.
And that they weren’t black
“I’m thinking that what’s DIFFERENT is that those other presidents didn’t openly say they wanted stricter gun control laws.”
Well, if you don’t count Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Bill Clinton. But do go on.
It seems that the NRA was very successful with this ad – everyone is upset with it.
When Obama has children up front to promote his restricitionist gun policy proposals that’s okay. When the NRA points out Obama’s daughters have armed guards at their school and really all day(without actually showing them), that’s terrible. Very consistent.
I own guns. They are very definitely secured in a safe. I do not take that lightly. Find it quite ridiculous that people who do not owne guns, have never been in the military nor law enforcement nor been trained in firearms are suddenly promlugating laws that make no sense(7 bullets to a clip or 10-pick a number,any random number apparently)
More importantly, these laws will do nothing to stop the vast majority of illegal handgun crime in inner cities perpetrated by people who don’t care about gun laws at all. Perhaps President Obama would like to deal with the ongoing slaughter in his beloved Chicago before he comes for the guns of otherwise law-abiding citizens. Chicago and many alrge cities like it have numerouis gun restriction laws on the books. try enforcing those first before you pass any new laws. Further, executive orders are not laws passed by Congress.
There should be some reasonable restrictions, especially if you have family members with mental health issues.
If you could create 2 public proponents of gun ownership who might do the most harm to the 2nd Amendment cause, they would look and act very much like Wayne LaPierre and Alex Jones.
End of rant.
Dick joke.
Bug you clearly didn’t watch the second video where Stewart pointed out that the current laws are ineffective because they were designed to be. You have guns and you’re responsible with them, thank you. Not everyone is and the reason is because there’s not enough oversight because of the NRA. There’s things we can do to help and we’re not doing them.
The left has vegans and animal rights activists. The right has the NRA.
yep, everyone has their crazies, and they are so damn loud that they drown out all the rational people…
The middle has “reality television”.
yeah but nobody gets killed because of what the vegans/animal right ppl do, can’t say that about the NRA.
Weeee-ell…. [gawker.com]
haha okay, didnt know that, my fault. Would’ve never guessed that this dude is an animal rights activist lol
Well, to be fair, a steak isn’t going to leap up and kill you, but any form of political activism tends to attract lunatics. There’s a great book about this called “The True Believer” by Eric Hoffer. Written back in the ’50s, but it’s very, very relevant today.
Agreed.
The left has vegans and animal rights activists. The right has the NRA.
Vegans aren’t not screaming and ranting about keeping a 100 clip round. And the ones screaming the most, already have their guns. Moot point.
The most disturbing part of this segment is that apparently The Daily Show still runs on Windows 95.
That about fits with how tech savvy your average NRA member is. And that’s being generous.
The NRA speaks for *responsible, sane* gun owners as little as the National Chamber of Commerce speaks for small businesses or the American Medical Association speaks for practicing doctors. It’s a lobbying group, it needs to make noise to collect dues, the end.
That’s one of the best rundowns of policy insanity The Daily Show has ever produced. It’s mind-boggling how things got this far in gun legislation.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.