{"id":110127,"date":"2025-05-19T20:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110127"},"modified":"2025-05-19T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T01:39:25","slug":"110127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110127","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/what_the_left_doesn_t_want_you_to_know_about_the_2nd_amendment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What the left doesn\u2019t want you to know about the 2nd Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cultural myths have always held that the left is better at comedy than the right, at least according to the left.\u00a0\u00a0But circular logic aside, the results of the past few years speak for themselves.\u00a0\u00a0The left can\u2019t meme, and it\u2019s falling behind in comedic talent.\u00a0\u00a0Case in point would be a comparison of the sheer genius of the folks of the Babylon Bee and the hapless, out-of-touch, and unfunny skits of\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first video from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/video\/liberal-goes-back-in-time-to-fix-the-2nd-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Babylon Bee<\/a>\u00a0is of a leftist (we\u2019re using that term instead of the other \u201cL\u201d word) going\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ow-N0d1QTS8\">back in time<\/a>\u00a0to try to \u201cfix\u201d the 2nd Amendment, applying many of the leftist tropes we\u2019ve been endlessly subjected to over the past few decades, such as only covering muzzle-loading muskets and nothing else, especially scary-looking assault weapons.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ow-N0d1QTS8?si=VeoLD88fcIMxacFh\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In the video, the character portraying James Madison notes that an armed citizenry is the point of the Second Amendment in keeping the government in check.\u00a0\u00a0At one point, he asks the Democrat who came back in time to alter the amendment a great question, one that should be asked of any leftist gun-grabbing ghoul:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDo you trust your government?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To which the leftist answers in the negative, and the natural response is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThen why would you want them to have much better guns than you?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very entertaining 6 minutes that demolishes most of the myths of the gun-grabber ghouls, while making a strong case for our firearm freedoms and the commonsense human right of self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6qTBHcPXs64\">second video<\/a>\u00a0proves our adage on the left and humor, but what is truly interesting is that this skit inadvertently also makes the case for the Second Amendment, making it look cool.\u00a0\u00a0Naturally, in their little way, they tried to knock our firearm freedoms with an ending tagline, but it ends up coming up short on the message.\u00a0\u00a0Their main, inadvertent point is that guns and gun-owners are cool instead of \u201cscary.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s more than amusing that\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0has fallen so far as to have the opposite intended cultural effect.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qTBHcPXs64?si=fC8V7bPEAzoB2zT7\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We can only guess from the sign-off from the second video from the formerly funny\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>\u00a0that it was meant as a criticism of the commonsense human right of self-defense and the Second Amendment.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately for them, they end up making firearm freedom cool and inadvertently boost that part of the Bill of Rights.\u00a0\u00a0These videos are well worth sharing with those on the fence, as a way of easily dispatching some gun-grabber ghoul myths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the left doesn\u2019t want you to know about the 2nd Amendment Cultural myths have always held that the left is better at comedy than the right, at least according to the left.\u00a0\u00a0But circular logic aside, the results of the past few years speak for themselves.\u00a0\u00a0The left can\u2019t meme, and it\u2019s falling behind in comedic &hellip; 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