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Every now and then, Saturday Night Live stumbles into something that makes even gun owners chuckle—and this weekend might’ve been one of those rare moments.
In a skit set during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Walton Goggins played a delegate named “Matt,” who pushes for the Second Amendment… by just shouting “Guns!” when asked what should follow the First.
What follows is a goofy back-and-forth where the Founding Fathers try to workshop the wording—“Have guns?” “No, no… ‘Bear arms.’”
And just like that, the sketch nails something a lot of Americans still believe: that the right to arms is foundational, even if it started with a bit of blunt enthusiasm.
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Sure, SNL couldn’t help themselves with a jab at the end—Matt gets “shot minutes after leaving the room”—but the damage was done: the crowd was laughing with the idea, not just at it.
Was it satire? Was it secretly based? Hard to say.
But for once, maybe SNL aimed for mockery and hit a little bit of truth. Or at least made “Bear Arms” sound pretty badass.
What do you think—was this SNL Second Amendment sketch actually funny? Or just another shot in the culture war?
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Believe I read somewhere, Walt Goggins is anti 2A.
The whole skit is mocking the 2A/gun ownership. Maybe 5 people in the audience at an SNL show are gun people.
I’m sure none of the limp wristed cast members are gun people.
It was funny, but they need tro get rid of the liberal writers. but at least Matt could have shot back
Stupid is as stupid does.
Did you not read the article? It literally said:
Sure, SNL couldn’t help themselves with a jab at the end—Matt gets “shot minutes after leaving the room”—but the damage was done: the crowd was laughing with the idea, not just at it.
Of course GA totally ignored the last line of the skit and that was that Matt was shot and killed minutes after leaving the room. That was the real message of the skit, and naturally you totally ignored it.
They mentioned it in the article.
dacian’s reading skills are very limited that’s why he misses what everyone else notices.
Hey dacian, why don’t you describe the conversations during US Constitutional Convention where abortion was discussed.
Kane you show your complete lack of American History. Abortion was legal in most of the Colonies and was not rescinded after the Country united and broke with Britain.
I might add that there was a study done on gun restrictions in Colonial America and they were numerous which included in one city, no loaded firearms were allowed in a home and in another concealed carry was outlawed. Those and many more gun laws were not rescinded after the Second Amendment was written and implemented. Rather the gun laws continued to increase until the present day.
The Far Right are always there own worst enemies. They scream endlessly about paying high taxes or any taxes for that matter but do not realized that unwanted children usually end up on welfare which costs the average taxpayers millions until they become young adults and when reaching that age if they are boys they often commit crime and murder and if they are females they become pregnant and go on welfare.
The Far Right never fund enough money for these children on welfare so that their mothers can work and pay for child care and of course the Far Right do not adopt these millions of unwanted children either.
The Far Right have no understanding of biology either as an unborn child is not a human until it is born but the Far Right insist that they be permitted to make women into medieval sex slaves. What is next with the far right, burning witches at the stake? I am not trying to be faceous as they all would do it in a heartbeat.
“Kane you show your complete lack of American History. Abortion was legal in most of the Colonies and was not rescinded after the Country united and broke with Britain.” -dacian
Prove it. The abortifacient potions were so horrible that it’s hard to imagine that any colony would sanction such diabolical medicines. The surgical or medical abortions of today were NOT the known practices of colonial America, so what was the practice more that 250 years ago? If your arguments are true, you have to know the detailed procedures of ending a pregnancy more than 250 years ago, what were those procedures?
Give specifics on any and all of the 13 American Colonies which had laws supporting “INFANTICIDE.” You do know that that the terms like “supporting a woman’s choice” were NOT part of American vernacular at the time? You do know that “INFANTICIDE” was the common term?
Here’s what I found on a quick search. In an article on titled “Abortion Laws in Colonial Times,…” this is what I found.
“From a legal perspective, most colonial governments had strict laws and penalties in place when it came to abortion. In many colonies, abortion was considered a criminal act and those found guilty were often severely punished. The punishment varied from colony to colony, but it could include fines, imprisonment, or even death in some cases.”
Another article titled, “Did Colonial America have abortions? Yes, but …An excerpt from Abortion Rites: A Social History of Abortion in America. “…Marvin takes us all the way back to Colonial times, when abortion was extremely rare and unmarried women facing crisis pregnancies could rely on society and the courts to force the father into doing the right thing.” —Mickey McLean
The article goes on to point cases where various colonies like Maryland and Massachusetts sought charges for people like a Captain William Mitchell for forcing his bondservant to drink a mixture that killed her unborn child and harmed the mother, Susam Warren.
I have seen the NPR, Hunnington, Zinn etc. that are surely your left-wing sources w/o any credibility. Still, give some supporting case histories which you must have to prove your dubious claims.
“I might add that there was a study done on gun restrictions in Colonial America and they were numerous which included in one city, no loaded firearms were allowed in a home and in another concealed carry was outlawed. Those and many more gun laws were not rescinded after the Second Amendment was written and implemented. Rather the gun laws continued to increase until the present day.” -dacian
Oh, “a study on gun restrictions in Colonial America.” Nothing like a vague study, to help a dubious ideologue, make an unrelated point on a separate topic. I’m going to help you out here, if your statement “the gun laws continued to increase until the present day” is true then that it would benefit your anti-2A aspirations. The current merit of 2A cases in America’s jurisprudence are judged on merits of text, history and tradition. Why are there so many pro 2A cases being won since there is no history and tradition to support restrictions?
SNL quit being funny around 1990.
I’d say closer to 1980 although they had moments of hilariousness throughout the 80’s and 90’s due to guys like Eddie Murphy and Chris Farley.
it’s snl just brainwashing their minions to step up the antigun crap nothing more