The Second Amendment is wild.

Neal Brennan standup about gun control. From 'Blocks' on Netflix.
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[@avryptickle]

Spot on. But for what it’s worth, nobody on the left is downplaying the need for mental health care in the US.

[@anthonycameronnajera8471]

So a little bit not spot on.

[@avryptickle]

Very very near spot on.

[@Heezydoesit167]

The left says that if you believe you were born in the wrong body, and you need to chop off your penis to be happy, you’re mentally fine... so, I’m going to say they do downplay the need for mental health care.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

No the left is claiming everyone in existence is mentally ill and that it's normal. That's a lie and it's false

[@seanmiller5460]

I have a few liberal relatives that beg to differ.

[@helenak.5762]

Most liberals agree that mental health care is also important.

[@zoekm]

Yeah, that was a bit of a strawman. The bit doesn't really work without it.

[@Matt-xc6sp]

They have selective amnesia when pushing gun control.

[@thomp9054]

Are you saying some people are trying to hold two thoughts on their head at the same time!? Egad!

[@ajwebber]

Most is an understatement. It's basically all. You'd be hard pressed to find me a liberal that wants gun reforms but not better healthcare.

[@Diana2112Gaming]

Every liberal I know is pushing for mental health reform, and gun control. The two go hand in hand. They also point out that most gun deaths are caused by self-infliction. Which is why we're pushing red flag laws (i.e. that bag of mushrooms and Ace Ventura solution). So that whole second bit just... falls kind of flat if you actually look at the liberal position for 2 seconds with any kind of clarity at all.

[@charliejackson6192]

😂😂😂😂 “ I’m working with a drone”.

[@BlueTearDconnor]

I am pretty sure the mom who went inside the school as cops were shitting their pants didn't have a gun on her when she went in

[@zachbailey5260]

"So we're not gonna give you a gun today, we're gonna give you a bag of mushrooms and a copy of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective." Gold.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I genuinely think "Blocks" was Netflix best comedy special in years.

[@RobFMDetroit]

Three Mics is still my favorite but both Blocks and his new one are awesome too. He's 3 for 3.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@RobFMDetroit Yes, the hit rate is flawless.

[@1craley878]

I have watched this show and 3 mics so many times. He is so hilarious and I can’t stop laughing at his nra / military showdown joke.

[@SticksAandstonesBozo]

I’ll assume it’s the only one you have seen then … 🤦‍♂️

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@SticksAandstonesBozo 😴

[@SubtleSalmon]

Neal is so right, just regular people armed with guns can’t stand a chance against a developed military. Anyway back to watching this Vietnam war documentary, no spoilers I haven’t finished it

[@baronnecas2880]

Oh damn is that the prequel to the Afghanistan one?

[@SubtleSalmon]

@@baronnecas2880 yup all part of the GCU, guerrilla cinematic universe

[@JohnnyGingy]

Technology hasn’t advanced on the side of the American military at all since then am I right lol

[@soyturkey2810]

The vietnamese had material and armament support from other nations. It wasn't a bunch of rice framers with old rifles

[@apexnext]

Lol yeah you obviously didn't watch any Vietnam documentaries if you didn't know who supported them. 😊

[@Yourmission9]

It’s funny and frightening because it’s all true

[@stu1037]

Pure gold.

[@archiechoke23]

This is a really good comedy special.

[@MedalionDS9]

FUCKIN' A MILLION!

[@StrikeTheRoot]

Look, I'm a veteran and a supporter of the personal ownership of firearms and yes, this is funny. because it's comedy folks. Neal Brennan is a funny dude.

[@cconnon1912]

This is super funny. It just goes to show how outdated the second amendment is. Responsible and gun ownership is one thing. But people shooting each other over road rage is unacceptable. Kids shooting up schools is unacceptable. So what do you do? In Texas, you can be mentally handicap and they will now allow you to purchase a gun. A guy in Dallas got honked at by a car and pulled out a gun and shot at the vehicle that honked at him hitting a two-year-old girl it was in the backseat. Is he a guy with a gun?

[@MomCatMeows]

Why this guy been under radar all this time?? Wrote for Dave Chappelle and this is the first time I've heard of him! Obviously, this guy is brilliant and hilarious!

[@danielvest9602]

Problem is that the "good guy with a gun" might be an idiot, like the security guard who killed a kid returning a BB pistol to a sporting goods store.

[@rungfang27]

Yeah that guy was a complete fucking idiot. Its sad for the kid,from what I heard the kid had the BB gun in his waist band,and super idiot though big five was going to get robbed.

[@ClassicFIHD]

Or the girl who killed the guy shooting an AR-15 into a birthday party crowd. Oh, did I just spoil your narrative?

[@reasonablegentleman]

There are definitely more idiots than heroes in the world.

[@ClassicFIHD]

I'm guessing you think there is a point to be made here.

[@quietspark8703]

The Confederates got reamed by the Union military even when arms were sill equal. In a fight between a ragtag militia and a highly trained military the militia will always lose, always.

[@rungfang27]

Probably should read up about the civil war again.

[@seanmiller5460]

Might want to read up on the revolutionary war again too... you know, that time a ragtag militia fought an oppressive government and won.

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

​@@rungfang27Maybe you should, given the Confederates LOST.

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

​@@seanmiller5460Did you know you got help from literally the rest of the world? Prussia, France... F*CKING LAFAYETTE. *THAT* LAFAYETTE FOUGHT IN AMERICA WITH THE REBELS. So no: it wasn't just a ragtag militia. The reason Washington won was because he turned your "ragtag militia" into a proper army and, look and behold, he was right to do so! Also, another small, SMALL particular: guns back then and guns nowadays are world apart. You simply cannot compare the two things like that. You see, History becomes a lot more interesting, when you actually study it.

[@fitter1972]

My problem is with the side that says the real cause of gun violence is mental health and then does nothing to improve mental health care.

[@Tattlebot]

US is unwilling to address the treatment of children which is the main cause of adult aggression.

[@michaelanderson8146]

"Fucking a million." Definitely sounds "Right."

[@FreckledOne-d2e]

That parts always gets me😂

[@matthewnelson5293]

This was my favorite bit from Blocks!

[@jratnerd]

Did people forget that uvalde had a security office with a gun and he ran out of the building? Guns in schools dont help if cowards are holdihg them.

[@atomicsmith]

This is perfectly captured in the “necessary for the common defense” part of the 2A that most people ignore. You will defend your own life and lives of those you love far more vigorously than somebody collecting a paycheck and counting on a pension… See also Ukraine.

[@morbidhandle13x]

@@atomicsmith so you think the kids should have had guns or what

[@atomicsmith]

@@morbidhandle13x Are you really this dumb, or just playing it up for this comment?

[@apexnext]

​@@morbidhandle13xthey would have done better then that security guard. 😂

[@jratnerd]

@@atomicsmith ...Ukrainians fighting now get their guns from their Army storage. A lot of people had their own personal use guns, but that didn't stop tanks.

[@bitrotter]

Deeply embarrassing take. The societal and psychological impact of gun violence far exceeds that of flu deaths. When grandpa kicks it from a flu at 82 it's sad, but people move on. When gunfire rips through your community, traumatizing your kids and leaving literal and figurative wounds... you can't put an estimate on the extent of the tragedy. It's not just about the "number of dead" it's also about the survivors.

[@obcl8569]

Precise & poignant addition to this conversation. Well said indeed.

[@newbrookland]

Agreed, but what's your suggestion for achievable gun control legislation?

[@bitrotter]

@@newbrookland thanks for asking, i have a lot of ideas, but the problem is federalism. doesn't matter what a state like NY legislates. It could be the best laws possible that respect the 2A while also correcting its shortcomings and treating this issue as the public safety issue it is. Problem is we're sandwiched between N states that not only don't give a shit about gun laws but actively make it easier to traffic them by making it harder to track them. When the right complains that "gun laws dont work" they are correct and it is entirely BY DESIGN. The only real solutions are federal and there's nearly no appetite for that in DC. Ideally laws there would redress the serious structural issues that make it impossible for gun manufacturers to produce obscene numbers of guns, market them and sell them without regard for public safety. Gun tracking and licensing and training coupled with regular mental health checks to maybe help keep them out of the hands of the suicidal. Ultimately too we need to just cut down the # of guns in the wild. Not saying any of these are simple solutions, but they are actionable.

[@seth5143]

@@bitrotter Good luck ever getting rid of them while 3D-printers still exist. So strange liberals acknowledge the failure of the War on Drugs constantly but simultaneously suggest that the law of supply & demand could magically disappear or be controlled via similar legislation regarding a different product. Doesn't matter what the product is; where there's demand there will be supply. You're living in a fantasy land. Btw, where do you think confiscated product ends up after the cuffs go clink?

[@RustyShakleford01]

It's not wild, though.

[@slogan8652]

Neal I loved this special. Thanks for the clip.

[@rogerbartley2225]

I don't worry about dying from flu, but I do catch flu quite a lot. I don't worry about being killed in a shooting but I would prefer not to get shot at all. Is it just part of life in America you'll pick up a few extra holes 🙂You get your seasonal Kevlar jabs from Wall Greens, lol

[@TheGreatKrystoff]

I wonder w hy Neal felt this needed to be reposted now

[@backelie]

Because he's got a new special out.

[@negativeindustrial]

@@backelie Of two year old material? Probably not.

[@backelie]

@@negativeindustrial Posting old material on a free platform to draw attention to new material on paid platform.

[@jimmyddddd]

Never heard him do the liberal side analysis of this bit. Well done!

[@johnsimth6587]

Which is a bit off because I don't know any liberal running for office who is against advocating for more health care. They'll argue gun control is needed but not that its ONLY needed, thats a misdirection argument from the right often uses. Its also a comedy bit so logic isn't really needed, like suicide is still horrible and should be stopped. It being 2/3rds doesn't mean... thats...anything better. It doesn't change the stats at all. Thats still people dying by guns, thats the fact.

[@rcranes2227]

Most liberals are all-in on mental health care as well. As for the flu, I can get a vaccine and almost guarantee I won't die from it. I have little choice if somebody decides to rampage through my kids' schools. It's different.

[@Shawn-zt3gv]

To be fair most of us say people with guns are much more likely going to use them to hurt themselves or someone they care about before they ever use them to defend themselves. But funny jokes none the less

[@quaternio]

That is an inverted framing of the moral reality. Those people who hurt themselves or others still have that degree of destructive intent. Guns being absent doesn’t change that, but rather makes it so you have virtually no plausible defense against them, unless you just happened to be born physically strong and violent enough to defeat them with brute force. A firearm equalizes the capability to make the other guy fall, even if you’re 90 pounds.

[@Tattlebot]

@@quaternio Studies also do not calculate the victimization by fist or blade which is deterred by the victim possibly being armed. There is a degree of invisible deterrence which is difficult to calculate, because there are too many factors in comparing the US to a disarmed society. This continues beyond prevented attacks to the prevention of the social costs of antisocial behaviour, like threatening confrontations.

[@richardkurr4977]

Yeah, but, It’s like he missed the last 20 years alone that show the sheer effectiveness of an insurgency using guerrilla tactics…

[@Earl_E_Burd]

What about the zombies?

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

Spear walls are better, in the long run. They don't run out of ammo.

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

Jokes aside, someone once made a video describing how a Medieval stronghold could resist a zombie plague.

[@PurpleHazeVanNederlands]

No way those hillbilly rebels in America could defeat the greatest army the world has ever seen in the UK. No way farmers in Vietnam with Aks could beat the giant US army. No way shepherda in Afghanistan with Aks can defeat the USSR, no way shepherds in Afghanistan can defeat the US. No way can 1m South Koreans keep the 3m person North Korean army/China from winning and taking over all of Korea...

[@TRYtoHELPyou]

Sir, you.... Didn't mention all of the shots taken by photographers that have been just killin' it.

[@helenak.5762]

Why are you not counting suicide by gun as gun violence? Why are you not seeing that the ready availability of a gun is part of the reason for the high rate is gun suicides?

[@helenak.5762]

I meant "...the high rate of gun suicides?" Not "is gun suicides" which doesn't make sense.

[@franklinkungfu]

Well, first of all he's not really trying to solve gun violence so much as he's performing comedy. Secondly in his comedy he did advocate for a mental health screening before being able to purchase a gun. I feel like he addressed your concern even though he's just doing a comedy bit.

[@jamesonrosen1773]

​@helenak.5762 you can edit comments by pressing the little dots to the upper right of your comment. Itll end up saying edited next to your name. Like mine

[@JordanAnthonySmith]

He’s not *not* counting them. He’s saying it’s important context often left out, which would change how people responded if they knew it.

[@adj4596]

Take away the gun, ppl will get creative making machines to do the job or overdose pills,so this thing called a knife,found in every kitchen in America

[@LarryCheat]

the only thing about the military vs regular folks w/ guns argument is i doubt a lot of folks in the military would be willing to fire against their own. and i bet a lot of military people share the same 2nd amendment beliefs

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

Which is why all the supposed "tyrannical government" would have to do is send platoons from different states to the rebel ones. Also, if your military today has no qualms about bombing civilians with drones, I don't see how hard would it be to apply the same lack of basic human empathy at home: the rebels in the US would simply cease to be "civilians", because, in the eyes of the military and the regime, they would be "dissenters", "terrorists", "traitors of the homeland" and all in all, something less than human. But truth be told, if that would ever happen to be the case, you don't realize that it wouldn't be "the army vs the civilian population". It would be "the army AND A LARGE PART OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WHO VOTED YOUR TYRANT INTO PLACE vs those few who did not agree with it all.>> The moment your nation will become a dictatorship, believe me when I say that *over 50% of you will have wanted it to be so.*

[@tedstriker2000]

Politicians should go into the Big Brother House and thats how we vote for them '')

[@oceanoflotion8630]

We should make them LipSync For Their Lives

[@brentottoson6974]

The last question hit hard. Why can't we be right AND happy? #Brennan2024

[@eongoosm]

Click bait clip and I ate it immediately. Ironically I have been listening to Lana and also recently lost my girlfriend. No gun. Though I've been eyeing that fork on the table pretty hard.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

A fork's not really practical. Are there any tall buildings near you?

[@eongoosm]

@@FatNorthernBigot I have a fear of heights.

[@vincenttavani6380]

"I'm sitting at this table called love Staring down at the irony of life How come we've reached this fork in the road And yet it cuts like a knife?" Hang in there, bud.

[@eongoosm]

​@@vincenttavani6380Random act of kindness, well done.

[@arghsonofcliff]

Funny thing, people with mental health issues don't have a lot of money. At least most of them. If they did there would be as many mental health clinics as plastic surgeons.

[@kesagatame]

That’s an inaccurate statement. There’s a whole slew of mental health issues that cover rich, poor, middle income folks.

[@apexnext]

​@@kesagatameyes it affects everyone, but only the rich and some middle can get the help they need.

[@EricSmith9000]

People laughing about democide...

[@jtgoat9810]

The man should’ve just said that he had zero working knowledge about the history of firearms and moved on. *yawn.

[@migzydrift]

That shirt is so wack. Love ya, Neal. 😇

[@leftyzappa]

In other words, we better adapt, and be wise.

[@mike110111]

Nah didn't get the asshole vibe, it was a totally good point

[@carljones9640]

I know it's supposed to be jokes, but I'd also rather be right than happy. Consider the fact that 21 states have passed laws that effectively ban transgender people. If you think there's not a need to be able to resist an oppressive government in 2024, you're wrong. If you think it's not worth trying just because it'd be a lopsided fight, I'll remind you that the entirety of the U.S. military couldn't beat half-trained goat farmers from the Middle East with 80 years out-of-date weapons in Afghanistan. All the most advanced fighting force in the history-of-ever got us was $20 trillion dollars in debt and Afghanistan still controlled by the Taliban.

[@AssassinLLC]

But Joe biden said that if the government decides to get tyrannical, there is nothing you can do about it.

[@jayswizzle57]

What laws are you referring to that ban transgender people?

[@earlyre]

Umm check your history books... NO ONE from outside Afghanistan has ever been able to hold Afghanistan. Not saying we did a bang up job, but.. A similar one to what we did in Vietnam. Only this time there were fewer returning soldiers getting spit on and called baby killers.

[@carljones9640]

@@earlyre So, in otherwords, we couldn't beat the mujadeen, even with our outlandishly superior military? Glad you agree.

[@lorenzocassaro6188]

Btw, has it come to you that the reason your government is making such sh*t laws is because a majority of the population already agrees with them? The government is not some sort of criminal mastermind holding its grip on your nation. The government IS your nation. You voted those people into place, knowing what they would try to do. If you don't like it, vote them out. That's how democracy works. It's not perfect, it's corruptible, but it's still a better alternative than your stupid Second Amendment. The rest of the First World does it just fine. You don't need to shoot anyone.

[@MrBrian000]

Had no idea this dude was so funny

[@bdasalways]

“Would you rather be right or be happy…” 😬😂😂😂

[@jimbo0896]

the dumbest quote ever spoken

[@FunnyGuy2011]

Imagine if instead of “Ace Ventura” it was “The Mask”

[@TabethaAurochs]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is another winner

[@thatcandont]

Awesome

[@CasualDandyAkaSqwrty]

SUPA FUNNY YESH NEAL

[@ac-uk6hs]

The Vietnamese stopped our military with much weaker guns than what we've got so I would reconsider my silly argument that guns don't prevent fascism

[@alexpelham8840]

You need to pass a test, get a drivers license, and annually register the vehicle to drive a car legally. Surely the founding fathers would be opposed to that?

[@big0514]

Your mistaking a privilege vs a right

[@Deemo202]

Yes and to exercise that right you need some training. Cry about it.

[@big0514]

@@Deemo202 I don’t mind training and many states do have ccl requirements. The issue is training hurts lower income areas which are typically more dangerous than upper class areas. But to register your gun isn’t necessary because it’s a right not a privilege

[@clairec1238]

happy v right 😂

[@CollinsCorp]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@patrickrkruger]

I've never seen the 2A as Americans being able to rise up against our own government. Instead, that am armed population would be able to defend against foreign invaders. Hence, Well regulated militias, line. The founders thought a government by the people, for the people, wouldn't face populist force.

[@rungfang27]

The well regulated militia line was written 230+ years ago. English words back then had different meanings than today. When it was written it just meant the people were all meant to be well equipped and trained,everyone is the militia. Today people try to make the argument using today's understanding of the word,meaning nations guard.

[@patrickrkruger]

@rungfang27 Nope. 1776 there was plenty of modern war words we still use. It wasn't an alternate dimension. "At the time of the American Revolutionary War, the word militia were groups of able bodied men, who protected their town, colonies and eventually States." And I guarantee you, there were dumb asses that the town would make sure never owned a gun.

[@user-nq7iu8ds1o]

I think a bag of weed would be better but mushrooms is A funnier joke

[@Jms3424]

This clown shoe has no actual concept of the reason for the 2A

[@BradGroux]

Pretty great dialogue. With that said, anyone who thinks that the US military can't be defeated by an armed populace need to look no further than the results in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Guys in caves with 40-year-old Russian AKs defeated the strongest military the world has ever seen.

[@andreiprioteasa3193]

Bro 60 years ago in a jungle with enemies hidden in tunnels in a war that the US never wanted to win is not a valid argument

[@SK-hj8ss]

Assuming that the superior military force can't or won't use Total War tactics - popular insurgencies win against superior military forces almost every time. No insurgency is going head-to-head with a superior military force. It's just guerrilla warfare.

[@quaternio]

@@andreiprioteasa3193Nice dodging all the many modern examples like Afghanistan.

[@rungfang27]

No the us military did not lose in Afghanistan, never lost a battle there. Politicians, the Afghan govt,and the Afghan forces failed to hold what us forces gave them. Hence the collapse of the Afghanistan govt within days of us forces leaving. And the us never lost a battle in Vietnam, once again politicians get their grubby little hands in it and fuck it all up!

[@SN-sz7kw]

The diff is being on foreign soil and being on your own turf. Language alone makes all the difference.

[@Courtesyflush52]

Neal vastly overestimates the average military member if he thinks they can handle 50:1 odds Most of these guys shoot a couple times a year, and barely finished high school

[@Tattlebot]

In a real crisis, people go home to protect their family. That is why I think "taking on the feds" is a false concept from the 80s. Real civil wars always organize along lines of identity. See Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and pre-2022 Donbass.

[@Diana2112Gaming]

MACV SOG had a 150:1 back in 'Nam. So uh... Yeah.

[@DocRock71]

^^^ It's always clear what MAGAs, Meal Team Six and other gun nuts who never served think of our troops and armed forces.

[@keltone]

Why be happy, when you can be interesting?

[@CabronMonoxide]

LMAO

[@charlesco7413]

His NRA vs the Drone bit is clever and made me chuckle. Then i remembered we just evacuated Afghanistan (cause we couldn't beat them) and all they had were AKs and rocket launchers that we had supplied them to fight Russia. (Nevermind what we left behind as we slammed the door on our own ass.)

[@sillyslambo8527]

Amazing bit, can't wait for everyone to piss their pants over it 🤣

[@Euridian]

They'll be the ones commenting. Everyone else is laughing lol

[@akshayde]

It's 3-4 years old I think

[@dodgechallenger2116]

This guy talking about liberals as if hes not one too

[@matt42977]

Because us liberals know how to joke and laugh at ourselves.

[@slampersand3145]

Well it's a good analysis ❤️ whichever way you wanna associate people.

[@machineo12887]

It's called self awareness and humility, I can understand why that would confuse a conservative

[@dodgechallenger2116]

@@machineo12887 you guys think a man can have babies. And your masters will censor this comment. Sit down.

[@leopoldbuttersstotch73]

I love guns! 2A all day!

[@Scoots1994]

Not a gun guy, but from out here in the country when I look at gun violence stats it seems most of it is happening in a small number of places ... and those places have really strict gun laws. I don't think the issue is the lack of gun control laws.

[@dreadtrain2846]

Too many guns and lax laws.

[@AirsoftTim92]

The vast majority of guns used for violent crime in cities are being trafficked from out of state, from states with lax gun laws. You need a national program to fix it.

[@jacksondowney4327]

Respectfully, you're looking at the stats incorrectly then. Per capita, the worst gun violence in the US is the south, and in the suburbs/smaller cities. Gun violence is happening everywhere. The double homicide in "Small City, Alabama" just isn't reported nationally in the same way that violence in the big cities are.

[@TabethaAurochs]

​@@jacksondowney4327Yup. DC is the only true city you can find statistics for, but data scientists treat it as a state, and it has the most gun-related deaths by far. The next dozen are current and historically red states. When looking at the proportion of gun-related suicides, the top states are also current and historically red states, but the highest deaths shift from Southern states to Western/Mid-Western states. What never shifts is the fact that the highest number of gun-related homicides and non-suicide deaths of women and children occur in those states with the least restrictive gun laws.

[@johnsimth6587]

You should stop lying.

[@avengemybreath3084]

It’s funny because it’s so ignorant. He is a clever guy, but a shallow thinker

[@DichotomousRex]

He also has a bit on how if you think comedians should be deep, you're an idiot.

[@leopoldbuttersstotch73]

I love guns. 2A all day!

[@dontcallmegus]

And a comedian - take it easy dude 😂

[@TexRobNC]

Neal, you see the audience all super quiet during the second half? It's because you lost them. Dude, you think you have a cool take on this, you don't, guns suck man. I'm ex military, guns are fucking terrible

[@johnsimth6587]

Veteran here as well, its a joke. He's doing comedy so we can assess the second part is him having to editorialize a bit of truth. No one on the left argues gun control and NO mental health care. Thats the bit he adds in to make the joke workish. Its nonsense.

[@jon8004]

He didn't say guns weren't terrible. He implied that people are more scared about gun deaths than they should be, statistically speaking.

[@johnsimth6587]

@@jon8004 Which doesn't actually track, yeah those numbers do include suicides but... thats still a dangerous aspect of guns. Those people die, its something bad and something that should be worked towards preventing and not ignoring. People are statistically LESS scared than they should be around firearms in my personal opinion, I mean... look at the current state of the debate today. They want less regulations for people without training than we have requirements for people with training. Its surreal, its the opposite of being careful or safe. I mean, I don't know who could argue suicides aren't a negative or a problem. Argue that suicide doesn't cause a life to be lost or something, its a strange argument. Like "yeah, sometimes the guns kill the exact person that was intended to kill. So we shouldn't be scared" thats a weird sentence.

[@dontcallmegus]

Haha that's called a listening audience. Do you hear the riotous laughter after the punchlines?

[@windowboy]

Bit like Jim Jeffries bit?

[@jon8004]

Same subject, different jokes.

[@fossi31415]

Unfortunately for this bit to be funny is actually has to make sense. The people in the military are the exact people who would side with the people who would want to protect you from the government. The government are the elected officials.

[@jon8004]

Your confidence is amusing.

[@curtisbme]

So you don't understand that the government is in charge of the military and their job is to follow orders? Also unaware that we have a political group who's leader has already stated he would use the military against groups he doesn't like on domestic soil?

[@fossi31415]

@@curtisbme following orders is voluntary when you're talking about a war between thw government and the people

[@DichotomousRex]

...except all those times the soldiers said "I was just following orders" right? That wasn't voluntary?

[@curtisbme]

@@fossi31415 You are implying that soldiers are just going to opt out on a command in mass. That is a lot of hopium about a mass of people specially trained to follow orders at all cost.

[@clicheguevara5282]

Funny how it’s 2024 and liberals somehow STILL don’t know the meaning of a “well regulated militia”. 😂

[@JeffreyKarlan]

Nobody does! That's the confusing part of the second amendment. What do you think it means?

[@quaternio]

@@JeffreyKarlanThere is no confusion amongst honest people with a little research. “Well regulated militia” is a term of art in political philosophy at the time of the US founding. It means a highly prepared and capable group of non-professional combatants. Switzerland held the same idea at the time, and you can see what that looks like in their example today. Militia has never been confusing in this context. You are the militia. We all are. What we learned though is that militia (ordinary working people) only want to defend their own land-not march off to war for economic interests, and as such, mere militia were not enough to satisfy the aspirations of the federal government. Add a little time to those unchecked aspirations, and now we have the abysmal war machine that Eisenhower predicted.

[@HAHb-zc2dp]

It's not wild at all actually and I'm Canadian

[@blantant]

This is the dumbest bit Neal has ever done

[@FunnyGuy2011]

But it’s the best

[@DichotomousRex]

Military cosplayers hate to hear how much of a joke they are

[@zacrl1230]

Don't worry, no one is taking your security blanket away from you. You'll be able to cuddle with your gun all you like. Just don't do it in public, kinks are for the bedroom.

[@pando4000]

So the plucky militia cant beat the side with the expensive toys. What about the Viet Cong and the Taliban

[@johnsimth6587]

Holy crap, we got ourselves a time traveler!

[@curtisbme]

Impressive. Shows a stunning lack of basic understanding of all three groups mentioned. Remember kids, never let stupidity get in the way of stating your opinion as if it isn't moronic, it's the American way!

[@anthonycameronnajera8471]

Do you think it's easier to fix all the mental health issues in society or to fix the problem of access to guns?

[@sailincat2822]

I wouldn't expect U.S. gun owners to line up for either one, in spite of both options saving many lives.

[@zacrl1230]

I've never been happy so I might as well be right.