N.R.A. Proposes Sweeping Ban on Movies

[ghostsinthemachine]

FAIRFAX, Va. (The Borowitz Report)—Saying it was “high time to take action against the number one cause of violence in America,” the National Rifle Association issued a statement today urging a sweeping ban on movies.

Tracy Klugian, an official spokesperson for the gun-lobbying organization, said that the N.R.A. had taken this extraordinary step because it “could not stand idly by and watch movies tear apart the fabric of our civil society.”

To that end, Mr. Klugian said, the N.R.A. would use money from its PAC, the N.R.A. Political Victory Fund, to support politicians who favored a ban on filmed entertainment.


Yes I know it is satire: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/n-r-a-proposes-sweeping-ban-on-movies

[Archae]

1. Before anyone replies...

Borowitz report is humor.

[Fred Sanders]

2. I give this article two thumbs up, the NRA response, after 72 hours AutoShutdown, will be predictably comical as this.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I hope they go after schools, churches, malls next

[cascadiance]

4. NRA should also add banning shopping malls too! :)

Clackamas Mall shooting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackamas_Town_Center_shooting

Westroads Mall shooting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westroads_Mall_shooting

Trolley Square Mall shooting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_Square_shooting

Tacoma Mall shooting...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Mall_shooting

Coral Ridge Mall shooting (where I used to live)...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/12/suspect-custody-iowa-mall-shooting/71161254/

... and so many more that they feel shouldn't happen if we banned malls...
http://www.kgw.com/story/news/2014/07/24/12402040/

And then we should also ban schools as well... Schools are even more evil in providing a place where killers misuse their firearms and we don't have enough of others with arms to stop them...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

[Electric Monk]

5. and video games

[passiveporcupine]

9. K&R

the second one especially!

[Logical]

6. The NRA is a right wing bunch of nuts. When Ted Nugent is a spokesman you know they are idiots. nt

[volstork]

12. Agreed.

That doesn't mean that they should be ignored. They do a tremendous amount of harm in this country.

[Logical]

13. I agree. nt

[malaise]

7. K & R - brilliant n/t

[Eleanors38]

8. Well, Trump trades in satire and imagination writ large: The NewTruth.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. That would be the next logical reaction.

[lobodons]

14. Guns don't kill people!!

Movies do!!

[Bohemianwriter]

15. Is this clown serious?

Ban MOVIES, but demanding to walk around heavily armed, acting like grown up kids?

[etherealtruth]

16. No, its Andy Borowitz, a comedic writer n/t

[rurallib]

17. the sad thing is is that it is believable