SNL “Guns” skit misses target, and hits Bullseye

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The Saturday Night Live (SNL) “Guns” skit was actually pretty funny, according to 83% of viewers who voted on it in an online poll. It is not hard to see why it received an 83% rating. Its message is completely ambiguous and will be taken different ways by different people. This is good comedy but bad politics for disarmists…

It aired on 11 October, 2015. The skit is being advertised as a way to promote Comedienne Amy Schumer’s (yes, she is related to the infamous disarmist Charles Schumer) disarmist campaign. She obviously thinks that what the skit shows is so over the top as to advocate for much stricter limits on gun ownership.

What most of Americans see is a parody on how common and ubiquitous guns have been and become in American society. As anti-gun advocacy, the SNL “Guns” skit is a complete bust, and is likely counterproductive.
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