Hoplophobe Comedian: Gun Ownership Should Go the Way of Slavery

By Ammoland

By AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On June 26, the Huffington Post ran a column focused on how Australian comedian Jim Jefferies “shoots down [the] 2nd Amendment with humor.”

A central component of this “humor” is to equate gun rights with slavery and talk about how a constitutional amendment—like the one that banned slavery—could be used to overturn the protections the Second Amendment affords to the rights of self-defense and bearing arms.

After all, Jefferies makes clear that he does not believe guns are actually used for protection. And he tells an anecdotal story to explain why:

I had a break in in Manchester, England where I was tied up. I had my head cut. They threatened to rape my girlfriend. They came through the window with a machete and hammer. Americans always go, Imagine if you had a gun. Alright, I was naked at the time. I wasn’t wearing my holster. I was staring at the window waiting for machetes to come through.

Jefferies punchline for this story: “What world do you live in where you are waiting, constantly f*ckin’ ready?”

Perhaps he could have told a condensed version …read more

Source:: AmmoLand