Educating Liberals On Guns & Private Property

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Charles C. W. Cooke:

Vox with the scoop:

Samantha Bee had an easier time buying a gun arsenal than a costume of the NRA’s mascot.

Gosh, that sounds outrageous! What’s the story?:

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee had a dream: to buy the costume for the NRA’s gun safety mascot, Eddie Eagle.

But it turns out the NRA has all sorts of restrictions on getting the outfit. The group requires an 18-page application. There are rules around what you can do in the costume — for example, no driving or drinking. There’s even a national registry that tracks Eddie Eagle costumes around the country. At one point, Bee started a fake gun safety training group — and was told only law enforcement can buy the costume.

“It turned out the organization that makes it easier to get a gun than Sudafed makes it nearly impossible to acquire their giant dancing eagle,” Bee said.

There are disagreements in politics. And then there is willful stupidity. This, alas, is an example of the latter. “Eddie the Eagle” is a private, trademarked, fictional character owned by an organization that is able to restrict his replication as much as it wishes. Firearms, by contrast, are constitutionally protected goods that cannot be denied to free people without good cause. Of course it is easier to get hold of one than the other. To buy a gun one needs to be of a certain age and to be without a criminal record; to obtain an “Eddie the Eagle” costume one needs to meet whatever conditions the character’s owners have imposed. One might as well ask why it is easier for a person to buy a machete than to take Jennifer Lawrence out for dinner. “But one is nicer than the other; surely that counts for something?!”

At Vox, German Lopez pretends that he thinks Bee has a case:

The point: While the NRA values making its costume extremely difficult to obtain, the organization — by lobbying for laxer gun laws — seems okay with letting people get a gun without much, if any, of a hassle.

The skit really isn’t a stretch.

On the contrary: The “skit” is not only “a stretch,” it’s utterly desperate.

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Without any hassle? Go buy a gun (if you meet the legal and mental requirements) and get back with me.

“One might as well ask why it is easier for a person to buy a machete than to take Jennifer Lawrence out for dinner. “But one is nicer than the other; surely that counts for something?!”

One is nicer than the other.

I’ll take a good, solid machete any day.

“It turned out the organization that makes it easier to get a gun than Sudafed makes it nearly impossible to acquire their giant dancing eagle,” Bee said.

Samantha, dear, we realize you’re not very bright, but that was an exceptionally stupid comparison.

It wasn’t the NRA that decided that everyone in the country is a potential meth cooker, and thus mandated that you jump through hoops to buy cold medicine. That was your hero, the ever-expanding government.

Oh, BTW, your hero Barry O voted for that one. That’s what he thinks of you.

She’s mocking the NRA and their ludicrous big safety bird, Charles. You’re like a humorless person seriously debating the logic of a joke he doesn’t get.

I am glad to know that Eddie is OK, however. I’d heard a report a while back that he’d been shot and killed from a helicopter by a sheep rancher.

@Greg:

“You’re like a humorless person seriously debating the logic of a joke he doesn’t get. ”

Calling him a liberal? Now that’s just mean….

Seems YOU’RE the one who missed the point.