![]() Yes, make sure to throw an Obama in there. And Iranians?! Do I even have to mention how terrified Americans are of Iranians?!?! This plan practically writes itself!īesides, you don’t even have to be within the US to do this. You can even borrow photos already posted by whichever paramilitary group is making headlines this week, and just start passing them around online, claiming they got all the guns at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, laughing and shouting “Can you believe they didn’t even do a background check?!! Thanks Obama!!!” Americans can barely tell them apart from Sikhs and Hindus anyway, and I’d be willing to bet that anyone of Mediterranean or Latin American descent with an especially nice tan could scare the hell out of white America just as well as anyone. Go ahead and write letters to NRA members thanking them for ensuring the ease of your many assault rifle purchases, and mention how you’ve recently expanded your collection with high-capacity magazines, explosive rounds, laser scopes, and bullet-proof vests so no one can stop you. Go ahead and mention how it’s practically impossible to get a gun in your home country, but here in America it’s soooo easy!!! Post photos of your kids holding assault rifles with captions like “isn’t it so cute how they can barely lift them?!” You can even use toy guns, since they look the same anyway. Talk about how easy it is to get assault rifles and grenade launchers from the neighborhood vending machine without even having to show an ID of any kind. The only thing that matters is that they view only one of these as fundamentally dangerous. They’re happy to see white people getting guns, but they’d be absolutely horrified to find a bunch of Muslims doing the same thing. This photo comparison made the rounds on the internet, generally under the title “Explain the Difference.” But a lot of gun lovers claimed they could explain the difference, and quite easily, because one is a freedom-loving American, while the other is a freedom-hating Muslim.Īs far as this plan goes, it doesn’t matter if they’re right or wrong. Just look at Shark Week.Īs for guns, the problem for quite some time has been that gun-loving Americans view easy access to gun ownership as fundamentally good. And how can we possibly get gun-loving Americans to view easy access to gun ownership as fundamentally bad? But Americans have pretty much made a national pastime out of being scared of the wrong thing. Terrifying though Dolph Lundgren may be, it’s the Americans who are killing you. ![]() ![]() Outside of film, we even have entire color-coded paranoia movements, like the Yellow Peril and the Red Scare. Remember “No Irish Need Apply?” And segregation?!? Just take a look at the last century of American cinema, with Russian villains all over the place. You see, if there’s one Americans hate more than the metric system, it’s weird foreigners. And your wrongness is destroying America.īut this is a problem that can be solved. If you’re one of those people, you’re simply wrong. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, except for those 6 in 10 Americans who think the exact opposite of reality. “Woohoo! We’re #1! In a shitty category!” As gun ownership rates vary by region or state, gun homicides vary right along with them. As gun ownership rates rise or fall, gun homicides follow the same pattern precisely. Despite 6 in 10 Americans thinking guns make us safer, the evidence is overwhelmingly the opposite. You see, the United States has a problem with guns. For whatever weird reason, it sparked the removal of the Confederate battle flag from all sorts of buildings, and that’ll perhaps lead to an incremental improvement in matters of entrenched racism, but it certainly won’t solve the underlying problems related to gun violence. Yet another mass shooting came and went, with no policy changes of any kind, nor any hope that such a thing could possibly happen. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of health care subsidies and marriage equality, which is a bit like a drunken hippopotamus sweeping a gymnastics competition with perfect scores all around.īut there’s one thing that wasn’t solved, and that was gun violence.
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