Once upon a time, The Onion was funny. Those days are long over, which would be sad if The Babylon Bee weren’t a thing.
What started out as a satire site focusing on religion has become the right’s answer to the leftist Onion, only unlike its competition, it’s funny. Especially, it’s long-running feud with CNN.
While the Bee has always had a certain soft spot for gun rights, recently, they went on an absolute tear, mocking the media and anti-gun politicians.
Let’s start with their swipe at the Associated Press.
I wrote about how the AP ran a piece last week, absolutely shocked that muzzleloaders don’t count as firearms. The AP is clearly alarmed that people can buy these guns without background checks, even though it’s a non-issue, and they’ve been blasted by everyone for it.
But the Bee? Well, they did it in their own, unique way.
The Associated Press has warned that despite their deadly nature, medieval trebuchets are mostly exempt from firearm regulations in the United States.
The AP cautioned its audience that a full-sized counterweight trebuchet is capable of throwing 400-pound stones at a speed of one hundred miles per hour, and the government has done almost nothing to limit trebuchet access.
“The founding fathers simply did not envision a private citizen with his own trebuchet,” said AP reporter Dana Wexler. “Our laws were never written to take into account these instruments of death. There are no federal background checks, no mandatory waiting periods, and in some jurisdictions, you can even build one in your own backyard using publicly available instructions from the internet.”
Now, as both a Second Amendment guy and a medieval nerd, this just tickled me in all kinds of ways.
But this wasn’t the first salvo.
Oh no, there was this that also popped up, where the Bee mocks both journalists and politicians and not just their anti-gun sensibilities, but their asinine falsehoods about guns.
Seriously, some of these are the absolute greatest hits of the anti-gun left, and I’m totally here for it.
Look, I get that not everyone thinks we should have the right to keep and bear arms. I get that some people think it’s one thing to have some guns, but some other weapons are too dangerous for regular people to own.
I disagree with all of this, but I understand they feel the way they feel, and they have every right to feel that way. One of the most fundamental rights a person can have is the right to be wrong.
But what you’re not entitled to is to manufacture your own facts. You can lie if you want, but that will never change the truth, either about primative firearms or more modern weapons.
The Bee used actual statements–the PTSD comment, for example, was ripped directly from a journalist named Gersh Kuntzman, who claimed he got it after shooting an AR-15–and often video, to show the idiotic nonsense being peddled by politicians and the media to try and demonize firearms. Not all of it, true, but enough that it should be clear that these people don’t know what they’re talking about.
And comedy does it in a way that you and I railing on the internet never would.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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