The Onion’s Tips For Passing Gun Control Legislation. (Note: this IS an article from The Onion.)

The Onion’s Tips For Passing Gun Control Legislation. (Note: this IS an article from The Onion.):

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• Write gun control legislation. Pass gun control legislation.


• Before voting on gun control bill, try, if you can, to remember any recent examples in which guns have been used to kill innocent people.


• Acknowledge that it’s going to be hard to buck the pressure of the high-powered gun lobby, but not that fucking hard, dumbass.


• Consider if overwhelming public support for a particular measure is something you want to be associated with or not.


• Inform your decision by researching whether guns are good or bad when placed in the wrong hands.


• Muster everything that’s left in your black, desiccated heart to do something that might actually be of service to someone other than yourself.


• Carefully assess the other side of the argument wherein mentally unstable people can buy weapons at a gun show with no problem whatsoever, and then realize there is no other side of this argument.


• Put on your stupid little suit, run a comb through your greasy hair, go to the U.S Capitol building, pick up your fancy little gold pen, and pass a fucking gun control bill.

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