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Video: Samantha Bee Searches in Vain for an NRA Eddie Eagle Costume

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/17/2016 8:27:15 am PDT

re: #235 Great White Snark

Perhaps pretending two very dissimilar things (guns and intellectual property) are the same and pretending an organization has no right to license a trademark (because … NRA) or character was a problematic way to promote sensible gun policy. Just maybe.

Could it be that painting a safety program with the same brush as the most egregious Wayne LaPierre policies was a mistake? It was just an elaborate gag. Far more comedic than helpful.

It is satire. Its purpose is to point out incongruities, idiosyncracies and stupidity in political ideologies.

The fact that gun defenders are picking it apart as if it were a news item shows how dull witted and serious they are about the matter.