Leave it to Saturday Night Live (SNL) to make us laugh about gun control.
This weekend, the sketch-comedy show started off with a skit about the gun control bill in the Senate. But instead of making fun of the gun-advocates this time, the show focused on how little is being done by lawmakers to actually stop gun violence.
President Obama (Jay Pharoah) started off by announcing the great “progress” that has been made in the gun control fight.
“The Senate voted 68 to 31 to begin debating the idea to discuss gun control…They’ve agreed to think about, talking about gun control! Amazing.”
He then introduced Senators Joe Manchin (Jason Sudeikis) and Patrick Toomey (Bill Hader) who hilariously went back and forth about the new laws that have been put in place to quell gun violence.
Here are some of our favorites:
“No individual can purchase a handgun from a private dealer without being asked, ‘Are you a good person?’ along with the follow-up question ‘Seriously, are you?’”
“We have agreed to limit the number of guns you can shoot at once to two.”
“We’ve been able to ban AK-47’s from all coin operated vending machines. And the Papa Johns promotion ‘Buy 2 medium pizzas get a free gun’ has been completely unlawed…except on weekends and during the Super Bowl.”
They ended with this:
“None of these restrictions would apply to Florida.”
Why are we not surprised!
Then, as a bonus, President Obama took back the mic to vent about his battles as president.
“See what I’m up against, America?! Plus Jay Z keeps rapping about how I let him go to Cuba. I thought that guy was on my side. Let me reintroduce myself! I’m the president!”
Hilarious!
SOURCE: Buzzfeed
