If there’s any humor to be derived from it, it’s that a PSA blasting the liberal elite for using Hollywood to send out their message, is exclusively using celebrities to push their message.
This bothers me on so many levels, and it goes beyond the simple threat of saying that if you protest the way the right does things, you will be shot. That part is not just troubling, it seems to go against the very spirit of the 2nd Amendment that the NRA seems to hold dear–that the right to own weapons is a protection against tyranny. This is tyranny. That’s not an exaggeration. I wish to God it was an exaggeration.
But I want to say something about Charlie Daniels, man, and maybe more than just Charlie. I’m in the mood to rant after watching that crap last night.
One of his earliest hits was a song called Uneasy Rider, about a hippie travelling to LA. He spends a lot of time in the song making fun of rednecks in that song. Maybe he’s had a massive change of heart since 1971; none of us are the same as we were 30, 40 years ago. The guy’s originally from Wilmington, though, which ain’t exactly country. He owns a ranch now, but that was because he wanted to play cowboy. He’s more real than that douchebag guy who covers rodeo for RFD and rants about liberals from his super-clean pickup in his super-clean cowboy costume, I guess.
Charlie Daniels has played at a concert about a mile from my house, surrounded by beans and corn. His guitarist is from about 20 miles from where I live. It’s coal country, farming country, good salt of the earth people. Sure, there’s people here who agree with the message here. Of course there are. There’s also people who strongly disagree with it. My brother in law is one of the types that Charlie references directly. You’re not going to get him to support everything the Republicans do, because he’s been a union man since he was 18 and is now retired.
But if guys like Charlie think that my brother-in-law would be easy pickings because of course he’s liberal and of course obviously unarmed, he would be in for an extremely rude awakening.
And I’ve joked about going full Charlton Heston before on here; I can’t even begin to fathom how anyone in the NRA is remotely okay with this. The gun dealers, maybe, because this might spark gun sales again, since they dropped as soon as it was clear Clinton had lost. But other than them, the NRA membership likes to present itself as responsible gun owners, because the stereotype about rabid gun nuts is that they’re trigger happy. This does nothing to counter that.
Mr. Wayne La Pierre, I know from the pamphlets I get in the mail, you’d like to get some of my money. I have something else for you instead,sir.
/rant
