Satire: Gun Sales Soar on Photo of Armed Obama

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The White House’s attempt to portray President Obama as a gun user may have had unintended consequences today, as a newly released photo of Mr. Obama firing a rifle at Camp David set off a panic of gun buying across the US.

Right-wing opponents of Mr. Obama were behind the frenzied gun sales, saying that they were terrified by the image of an armed and shooting President.


“I don’t want to sound paranoid or anything, but now everything Obama has been doing makes sense,” said Harland Dorrinson, who was waiting on a blocks-long line outside a West Virginia Wal-Mart. “He wants to take away all our guns and then he’s going to come shoot us.”

Learning that Mr. Obama only uses his rifle for skeet-shooting did little to calm Mr. Dorrinson: “Somebody owning a gun just for sporting purposes? Yeah, right.”


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/02/gun-sales-soar-on-photo-of-armed-obama.html#ixzz2Jrogkwd4

Not to quibble but one uses a shotgun not a rifle for skeet.

[madinmaryland]

1. “He wants to take away all our guns and then he’s going to come shoot us.” Wow!!

Borowitz nailed that one!! That's a classic. As I can see all the gun-nutters doing exactly what is in this piece of "satire"

[nick of time]

2. Probably closer to the truth

than satire.