Jon Stewart mocked the “gun nuts” over at the National Rifle Association on Thursday’s “The Daily Show” for disavowing their fairly reasonable statement that admitted toting firearms into fast food restaurants was “downright weird.”
After members of Open Carry Texas cut up their NRA membership cards in response — as Stewart pointed out, if open carry advocates were “sitting on a bunker full of assault rifles,” why did they choose to make their point with scissors? — the NRA quickly reversed course and apologized.
“Wow. Everyone’s scared of gun nuts — even other gun nuts,” he said.
While the open carry advocates and NRA members live by the mantra of being a “good guy with a gun,” Stewart continued, the “members of the National Everybody Else Association” have no idea whether the person standing behind them in line at Chili’s carrying a rifle is indeed a good guy.
“We are at the intersection of Open Carry Road and ‘Stand Your Ground’ Place,” he observed. “Here’s where we are. So what the f*ck are we supposed to do now? According to the NRA’s basic principles, you have a right to carry a weapon that may cause a reasonable person to believe they are in danger of great bodily injury. And they have a right, if they feel that way, to respond with deadly force. It’s a perpetual violence machine. It’s ‘Gunfight at the Golden Corral.’”
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