Amy Schumer’s gun control lies
The other day, plus-size comedienne Amy Schumer, cousin to Chuckie, did a little skit on Comedy Channel about gun control. She portrayed a TV host on a home shopping network-style program from which she pretended to sell guns. It begins at about :55 into this video that was posted at Esquire;
During the skit, she had an exchange with a viewer who claims to be a felon and unable to buy a gun.
A hopeful buyer laments that he can’t get a gun because he has a criminal record riddled with felonies.
“Caller, you bite your tongue, you silly goose!” Schumer’s character says. “You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies, as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show.”
“If you go to a gun show, you can get an unlicensed seller to sell you a gun, no questions asked,” Dunnigan added
Politfact checks Schumer’s script;
To be clear: The kind of transaction Schumer’s character describes is illegal. Federal law prohibits felons from getting a gun unless their rights have been formally restored.
Felons can theoretically get around this obstacle, however, by buying guns from unlicensed sellers who are not required to conduct criminal background checks. This is sometimes referred to as the “gun show loophole,” even though it refers to all private sales, and not everyone considers it a loophole.
Schumer’s sketch was referring to this aspect of current gun law, said a spokesman for Everytown for Gun Safety, gun control advocacy group Schumer promotes at the end of the sketch.
Politifact says that Schumer was “Half True”, but they stop short in their evaluation. If indeed the type of show exists like the one Schumer pretends, in order to ship the gun, they’d have to ship it to a Federal Firearms licensed dealer, and then that dealer would have to do the regular background checks to which we’re all subjected when we legally buy firearms. In other words, it’s already against the law to ship guns directly to a buyer without a background check.
The only solution to the problem that Schumer advocates is the one where everyone turns in their guns to the government. Even that is no real solution. The District of Columbia forbade the ownership of most guns more than 40 years ago, but the Metro Police still confiscate about 2000 illegal guns every year.
Schumer got a little bit upset when the media called her spot a “gun control” message;
Because “gun safety” sounds more innocuous than “gun control”, but “gun control” is exactly what she wants no matter what she calls it. She portrayed a sale that is already illegal under existing laws. But, yeah, we should write more laws.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Two words for Amy. “Molon labe.”
Brain washed bitch…little chuckie the schumer, alias communist, NWO prick strikes again!
I did not appreciate the Steve Irwin coin bit at all. Assholes. Loved that guy.
2/17…good to know there was another Steve Irwin fan on this site. For 16 years I earned a living diving commercially. Of course all his shows were of interest to me, water involved or not. This particular effort at humor rivals the movie currently being discussed which mocks Ronald Reagan and his bout with Alzheimers/Dementia. Even MY warped sense of humor has some limits.
She’s no better than her second cousin “Fuck Nut” Chuck Schumer, the professional politician!
Gee, a liberal gun control advocate distorting the truth or outright lying to “support the cause”. How . . . predictable.
Gotta take issue with you on one point, though, Jonn. You said the following above:
No, “gun control” isn’t what Schumer and her ilk want. What they actually want is gun confiscation. But they know publicly saying that won’t fly with the American public, so they hide behind “gun control” as their goal.
Yeah, they’re lying about their goal too. Lies are just par for the course with that crowd.
This message is directed at the unfunny fat bitch.
“Gun safety” means the following:
Treat it like it’s loaded
Don’t point it at anything you don’t want to kill
Keep your booger hook off the bang switch
Don’t shoot anybody who doesn’t need to get shot
That is all.
Fuck off.
And…Make sure there’s only one story told…yours.
Damn, if she knew how close she is to pulling a Jane Fonda on herself, she might shut her big, fat yap. She acts like she’s being threatened when she isn’t.
It’s one thing to say ‘I don’t like guns and don’t want one.’ That’s a clear choice made by one person. It’s another thing to dictate terms to other people by saying ‘I don’t like guns, so you shouldn’t have any’, which is exactly what she’s doing.
Are folks seriously fact checking a comedy skit? Next thing you know, someone’s going to tell me that Larry the Cable Guy isn’t real and is just the persona of a guy who used to do typical observational comedy.
Yeah, well, the skit was followed by a call to political action. So, it really wasn’t a skit – it was politics.
Look, I get it. But surely the outrage meter is already broken. Over eight years of crying wolf over every little thing, I now don’t know what I’m really supposed to be upset about. Amy Schumer has as much influence in the gun debate as Subway Jared does with child hunger.
I think you meant child pornography.
Six of one, ha ha. I went with child hunger because of Subway, and it is actually an issue of importance that some reputable folks (Jeff Bridges, for one) care about. It also avoids the low-hanging fruit effect by going after Jared’s actual conviction. I like subtle comedy at times.
I got your nuanced sarcasm. I just have a very strong dislike of all things Jared. He has become what he is. The Amy Schumer thing is like an open festering wound. Their (actors, media, etc.) access to television and their willingness to use that access to mock those who disagree with them is bullsh*t no matter how you cut it up.
Amen. No celebrity is going to keep me from owning my gun.
Here’s the problem. Some people, mostly liberals and 18 yr olds, think these dumfuque celebs are brainiacs. These asshats have a forum for their opinion just because the hypocritical lefties in the entertainment business gives it to them. Us slugs down in the trenches of the real world have no such bully pulpit, so we must point out their bullshit when we see it.
I read recently that ‘Jared the Douche’ gets tuned up on a regular basis, most recently within the prior few months. I also read he is in segregation because even felons have a few standards, and tuning up scum who molest women, and especially children, is frowned upon, and rightly so. Even being in segregation does not afford him absolute protection from others. He’s appealing his ‘harsh’ sentence, saying the judge exceeded the guidelines for his particular scumbaggery. I wonder if he still has his teeth? I hope he does every day of his sentence. Every hard day. Scumbag …
I don’t care if you’re outraged or not – all I care about is truth. By the way “Google” her and you’ll see that many in the media are calling her brave and innovative for using her skit to “inform” the voting public. The folks who thought Jon Stewart was a legitimate news source also think that Schumer and Samantha Bee are just as reliable.
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Agreed. The idea that we should ignore her because she is an idiot is what got us the original “assault” weapons ban in the first place.
Lots of people think that she speaks the gospel truth, I know because I work with a lot of them. It takes hours of explanation to undo minutes of bullshit that they have been fed.
They believe these celebrities and it’s an uphill battle every time because “Well, I saw it on TV so it must be true.”
No, we shouldn’t give an inch to these jackasses. They should be confronted at every turn and exposed for the lying sacks of shit they are at every opportunity.
There are some things that just aren’t funny, D. Our gun rights, and the TRUTH about our gun rights, is one of them.
Isnt knowingly transferring a firearm to a prohibited person a crime even if it is a private sale?
Yes, yes it is. But, in the interest of “gun safety”, Progressives are allowed to bend the truth until it is all but unrecognizable.
Gun control is “gun safety”?
Amy is the victim of mind safety.
And as if I even needed another reason to dislike her intensely.
Amy might do well to practice a little spoon safety.
I have an idea for a comedy skit. Amy Schumer is walking toward her door one night and is accosted by a couple of thugs. She is dragged to the alley where she is brutally assaulted and left for dead. The perps are not satisfied and approach another woman blocks away. As they near, the woman slides her hand into her pocketbook, hoping that what she places her hand on she doesn’t have to pull from the bag. Seconds later one of the thugs comes right at her and she sees the glint of a knife in his hand. She pulls the object from her bag and levels it at his chest. He sees the gun, spins away and runs off, with his buddy two steps ahead of him.
Funny story, eh?
A better ending would be she double-taps both of them, pulls her cell and calls 911, reporting her justified use of deadly force. She would then be featured in the TAH morning feel good stories.
Dozens of skits out their like this. A few of the better ones:
http://youtu.be/I3HlbgYQLE0
http://youtu.be/BQHWTfFV3Vc
http://youtu.be/I3HlbgYQLE0
Whenever I hear som lib touting “gun safety” organizations like Moms Demand Action or Mothers Against Gun Violence, I always ask them where I can take a gun safety class through them. After I get the deer in the headlights looks from them, I explain that the NRA has a plethora of gun safety and training programs, and that if they were honestly interested in gun safety vice confiscation, they would be supporting the NRA instead of Bloomberg’s latest donation recipients.
No doubt! It reminds me of Al Gore jet setting across the globe in his 757 spouting global warming.
So she feels guilty because a nut job killed people watching her movie, and now thinks we need gun control. I wish that someone could get her to think about the outcome had there been armed citizens in the theater instead of sheep at a slaughter. I know that requires a liberal to think outside of their box and will never happen, just sayin.
I laugh at the way all the people that follow the left, just fall for all of their BS without finding out the truth. Like the “gun show loop hole”. Maybe they should go to one and buy, or try to buy a firearm.
Let me see if I get it now:
Marijuana = ok
Police = bad
Thug ass criminal = victim
Second amendment = bad
Personal accountability for your actions = no, it’s someone else’s fault
Due diligence = hell no, the MSM will tell you what you need to know.
God please help us!
“God please help us!”
Yes, I pray He does, because we seem incapable or unwilling to do so ourselves in so many matters.
The intent of the left is not a ‘reasoned discourse about guns in America’ but a total ban on firearms. Except, of course, for those owned by the politicians, the beautiful people and their layers of bodyguards. Why? Silly, it’s because they are so much smarter than us. They see the big picture. They know what is best for the individual and, by extension, for the country. Many of these people are so far removed from reality they actually believe the pablum that spews from their ‘brown particulate matter’ encrusted lips. Maybe in my lifetime the adults will once more be in charge. I’m not holding my breath, though, because I have a lot of years under my belt. And, folks, if Killary is elected, well, you get my drift.
So all you really did, you stupid bitch, is admit that law breakers DON’T abide by the law…. No matter what the law is!!!!
So laws or gun control won’t stop law breakers. Just like you won’t stop eating too much chow even if tighter “controls” were placed on your eating rights.
What a horrible cunt.
You summed that up rather nicely.
Not an appropriate name to call her.
A cunt has warmth and depth.
(Thanks MZ Williamson. Priceless)
I’d hit it.
Yep. Somehow, I knew it was coming. LOL
We know, IDC, we know. It took you long enough. Were you thinking it over? Nah! lol
….with a ball-gag….
Comedy sketches are meant to be absurdist.
The issue she is highlighting was that felons can acquire guns through private sales.
This is true.
It is not legal to do so but true.
Many people assume felons get guns through some shady dark alley transaction with a criminal arms trafficker.
In reality they can just buy one from a private citizen in most cases.
Is it an issue? For some it is. It is for her and her organization.
What is the solution? Not sure. We should have a national dialogue on it.
Your blog post is part of that dialogue. So is her sketch,
He’s Baaaack! No such chance you’ll ever escape me and the promise I made to you. Surely you remember…..ABSOLUTELY!!! The time when you posted on this site, “People who are afraid of communists are foolish”. You DO remember posting that don’t you? So where are we when it comes to being foolish to fear Communism, according to YOU?
Korea AND RVN for starters where a combined total 347,352 Men, Fathers, Brothers etc Americans fighting your Communist friends were either KIA, WIA, or MIA. Great friends you have there Larsie Pooh. But the numbers keep on growing to question your claim and competence. Don’t forget the 20 million folks who were murdered in the USSR by your friendly commies..China, meanwhile suffered 65 million killed by your Commie friends. Not to forget one million Vietnamese killed by your easy-going Communist friends. Somehow your claim seems less truthful every time you post on this site. Continue posting as you wish, I’ve PLENTY of more numbers to add every time you want the absolute truth known. You know, Larsie, it seems damned suspicious that you don’t deny what I continue to publish. Are you auditioning for the Gainey Cricket Brigade? Corresponding similar to the adage, “A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a client”…in your case it would read, “A man who does heavy research for his own stories represents a fool for an author”.
How many times are you going to post this?
I am not a communist. I do not have communist friends. Communism is not a threat to the US. Communism does not work.
Let it rest already. You are acting insane.
There are 2000 registered voters in the communist party in the US. Out of more than 146,000,000 registered voters.
Communists represent 0.00136% of registered voters.
This is reflected in the representation they have in government.
Seats in the Senate
0 / 100
Seats in the House
0 / 435
Governorships
0 / 50
State Upper Houses
0 / 1,921
State Lower Houses
0 / 5,410
Your fear of communism is utterly irrational.
Fascism is a far greater threat to the US than communism.
Both are collectivist, socialist, authoritarian systems differing only slightly in specific details.
Practitioners and advocates of such schemes killed (ballpark) 100 million people in the 20th century. They continue to say that they can make it work, given one more chance, much greater effort, and of course the correct leader this time.
Right. Not a threat.
Closer to 142 million, 11B-Mailclerk – from 4 Communist states in the 20th Century alone (USSR, PRC, North Korea, Khmer Rouge Cambodia). Add their close cousins Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (both strongly socialist and authoritarian regimes), and the total approaches 170 million.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
Those numbers are only deliberate murders of civilians outside wartime that were perpetrated by those governments for political reasons. They do not include wartime casualties. They are also considered rather conservative estimates, actually. The true totals could well be much higher.
Yeah, right. Tell us another one, “Fulla”.
Communism – as well as other authoritarian socialist forms of government – are threats to everyone. Just ask anyone who’s survived living under such a regime.
Lars, you’re still a lying sack of shit with a pathological need to see yourself as right no matter how obviously wrong you are. Come back when you get some maturity, bitch.
By the way, communism is pretty fascist when you get right down to it. Oh sure, the window dressing is different, but the underlying themes are the same.
Communism is not ‘pretty” fascist.
Words have meanings. And the two are extremely different.
Calling them the same and then calling me a liar is bullshit.
Underlying themes are not even close to the same.
It is absurd to claim they are.
“Get some maturity bitch”…? Nice example of your maturity.
Your failure to understand communism or fascism and ignorantly lumping them together is not due to my lack of maturity.
It is your failure. Your ignorance.
As the man said: “Communism is extreme control of men by other men. Fascism is, of course, the exact opposite”
Having been in both tyes of places in my lifetime, I can assure you that the ideological differences are window dressing and that at heart the are both all about power and control for the central party.
And that’s the very simple point that’s beyond the comprehension of Lars the Self-Proclaimed Omniscient.
But then again, Lars is not only an idiot, but also a proven liar.
“The issue she is highlighting was that felons can acquire guns through private sales.”
Right. Criminals will break the law. Any additional laws regarding gun ownership will NOT affect the criminals. Only you and I.
Nation dialogue complete.
Under the current set of laws guns are easy for felons to acquire. That is a fact.
Do we want felons to be able to easily get weapons?
Criminals may break laws but honest citizens do so far less often.
So, they could just make it illegal to resell firearms unless you use a licensed broker. Or some other form of means to determine the legality of the new owner possessing a firearm.
When you sell a car it requires paperwork be registered with the state for the transfer to be legal. We could do something similar for firearms. The difference is the paperwork would need to be filed before the transfer.
There are a lot of items we restrict people from reselling because allowing them to do so is a threat to public health.
Prescription drugs for instance. Milk in many cases. Event tickets resales are illegal in many jurisdictions. For a time it was illegal to resell software though those laws tend to lose.
These I just possible suggestions. My point is only the dialogue is not over.
That’s right I forgot…
Cars aren’t stolen, violently so.
Prescription drugs are no longer abused either, or stolen in home invasions.
And nobody scalps event tickets.
Yep, let’s get those gun “loopholes” closed.
Gun ownership is a right. If we use the same laws to govern a right as we do a privilege (gun vs. car), it will cease to be a right and become another privilege. THAT is why most people who uphold 2A refuse to make concessions concerning its meaning.
“The issue she is highlighting was that felons can acquire guns through private sales. This is true. It is not legal to do so but true. Many people assume felons get guns through some shady dark alley transaction with a criminal arms trafficker. ” They DID get them through a criminal arms trafficker! What part of “illegal” gun sale don’t you get? That makes the seller a criminal for knowingly disregarding the law by selling to a felon. Law abiding citizens don’t do that; so that leaves criminals selling to criminals. I know of several private, law abiding sellers who have sold firearms privately, including me, to other law abiding citizens. How do I know they’re law abiding? Because I made a copy of their drivers license, their permit to purchase a handgun/assault rifle, or their permit to carry, plus made a bill of sale, etc. What is different between what I did and when D’Brickshaw sold that stolen gun (private gun sale) to Tweeker Terry? D’Brickshaw didn’t ask for any of that stuff; he just asked if he had the $100. Of course, if it was a purchase South of the border, they would already have it cleared with Obama’s DOJ (Fast and Furious ring a bell?) Amy and her cousin are complete dumbasses with an agenda. Truth means nothing to them. I want to have a film crew follow Amy to a gun show and have her try and purchase a firearm from a private seller there. She would get an education real quick. Unfortunately, she wouldn’t take the challenge, because she already knows the truth and doesn’t want herself exposed as the lying bitch that she is. Just like when Dickhead Kelley made a video of himself filling out the forms to purchase an AR. He said on the video that he was going to purchase the AR and then give it to a police department. Dumbass didn’t understand that he was admitting that he was making a straw purchase, which is a federal crime. Did he get in trouble? Nope, not on Obumbles watch. He should… Read more »
Nobody said ANYTHING about the person knowing the other person was a felon.
You are projecting something that is not there.
That is the issue with the current “loophole”.
The vast majority of gun owners are responsible enough to not sell firearms to felons and usually will take the necessary steps to insure the person buying is legal. The ones that you and Schumer claim are out there (other than criminals) are such a small percentage as to be almost noteworthy, if looking to pick fly shit out of pepper.
I challenge you to go to a gun show and attempt to purchase a firearm. I challenge you to buy one through the internet and have it shipped to your house. I bet you can’t do it. Neither can Schumer.
Oh, the poodle doesn’t know about all those guns that were stolen out of a freight car in a railyard on the south side of Chicago about two years ago. Obviously, he thinks all guns come from stores, just like eggs and butter.
“The issue she is highlighting was that felons can acquire guns through private sales.”
But that’s not what she said.
“What is the solution? Not sure. We should have a national dialogue on it.”
Easy. If you are not in prison, or under a court order, all Constitutional Rights should apply. Period. There is nothing to have a “dialogue” about.
Period.
Maybe they are meant to be absurdist but she is not funny. She is a vulgar bitch that only makes fun of everyone and anything.
I watched about 10 minutes of Trainwreck because my wife rented it from Redbox. Then I went to the barn because I’d rather shovel horse shit than watch her slutty sex life on TV.
I’d have shot myself if I’d have paid to see her movie in a theater ( I know that was dark and uncalled for, I mean no disrespect to the inocent unarmed citizens that were murdered, but I think that most of you get what I’m saying)
So, numbnuts, tell us how many laws we have to pass with the threat of decades of imprisonment before all the criminals facepalm themselves and go, “FUCK! I might get in trouble for this shit!”
“There are 2000 registered voters in the communist party in the US. Out of more than 146,000,000 registered voters.”
All that suggests is there are ‘only’ 2000 people stupid enough to register as a communist. If you are suggesting there are only 2000 in this country who have communist leanings or sympathies, I think your numbers are suspect. But, I don’t that that is what you are suggesting. Registering as a communist is the kiss of death in many respects, and it is doubtful, to me, that most want to be known as a communist or sympathizer. The value of 2000 is likely only the tip of the spear, probably the last miniscule length of the spear. I agree those with communist leanings and sympathies are a minority, but disagree that they represent only 0.00136% of those who vote. I also believe that, in the absence of a communist on the ballot for whom to vote, most of those with communist leanings will probably vote for the most-liberal candidate.
There are far more people with fascist leanings. Or at least fascist ideology and rhetoric gains far more traction in American politics than anything communist.
Communism has essentially no political power in this nation. Socialism does but there is a significant difference between the two. Socialism is compatible with a free market. Communism is not. There is no form of communism that preserves a free market. And since the exercise of free choice in trade is a significant part of a free society, communism is generally not compatible with a many aspects of what are likely necessary for a free society as we currently conceive of it.
And communist “leanings” is a pretty vague term. I have seen people on this board lump everything they don’t like under the sun as communism.
Hell, they even call Obama a “communist”. This illustrates the complete lack of understanding for something they fear so much.
Which explains why they are so damn afraid of it.
Socialism and Communism, unchecked by freedom and liberty, both lead to the same end: Tyranny.
“Gun Bans” … “Gun Control” … “Gun Safety”
eventually becomes
“Reloctation in the East”.
Can’t happen here? Tell it to the Cherokee. Or, tell the Nisei.
Jackson, Democrat, having been told by the Supreme Court “You cannot deport the Cherokee”, did so anyway.
Disarming them was the required first step.
This bullshit… As a white male, that stays well armed, I’m part of the problem as all this privilege clouds my judgement. So, if I was to quote something by a group of white revolutionaries I’d be fucking wrong in these anti-gun, anti-reality morons. They patronize by treating anyone that believes in individual freedom and responsibility as anachronistic. Fuck them. I’ll stay dragging my knuckles as the sentient ape I’s be and place these few precious words here, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive…, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”.
So I wonder if Amy was wishing that she had a sidearm with her when this happened?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/05/02/fan-fights-back-after-amy-schumer-blasts-him-for-harassment.html
‘This guy in front of his family just ran up next to me scared the shit out of me. Put a camera in my face. I asked him to stop and he said ” no it’s America and we paid for you” this was in front of his daughter. I was saying stop and no. Great message to your kid. Yes legally you are allowed to take a picture of me. But I was asking you to stop and saying no. I will not take picture with people anymore and it’s because of this dude in Greenville.’
And how about this rather ironic choice of words:
‘Schumer posted another message on Instagram thanking fans for support and sticking to her guns regarding Brewer’s behavior.’
‘Sticking to her guns’, eh?
Any bets on how long it will be before Amy starts going around in public with armed security (is she’s not doing so already)?
Why does this vapid bint trigger Dependa-flashbacks in my head?
Because she’s Chuckie’s cousin?
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