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Zenith2017 t1_j8xe1ok wrote

Reply to comment by trs21219 in Turtle Creek man charged with possessing guns in Pittsburgh's federal building by lod254

The greater point of the satire I tried to make was that every gun owner is a well intended responsible and safe gun owner, up until the moment they aren't. The opposite is a rhetoric that tries to justify guys like these, mal-intended or not.

*Autocorrect

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Cryptic_Skies t1_j8xl42d wrote

i think satire died when too many people took The Colbert Report to be real...

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Zenith2017 t1_j96wx4v wrote

At some point Colbert, the daily show (god I still miss Jon Stewart), SNL etc just became bad imitations of reality in a way, haha

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Cryptic_Skies t1_j9ahlnc wrote

> just became bad imitations of reality...

as art often does.

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