Every now and then, Saturday Night Live stumbles into something that makes even gun owners chuckle—and this weekend might’ve been one of those rare moments.
In a skit set during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Walton Goggins played a delegate named “Matt,” who pushes for the Second Amendment… by just shouting “Guns!” when asked what should follow the First.
What follows is a goofy back-and-forth where the Founding Fathers try to workshop the wording—“Have guns?” “No, no… ‘Bear arms.’”
And just like that, the sketch nails something a lot of Americans still believe: that the right to arms is foundational, even if it started with a bit of blunt enthusiasm.
Sure, SNL couldn’t help themselves with a jab at the end—Matt gets “shot minutes after leaving the room”—but the damage was done: the crowd was laughing with the idea, not just at it.
Was it satire? Was it secretly based? Hard to say.
But for once, maybe SNL aimed for mockery and hit a little bit of truth. Or at least made “Bear Arms” sound pretty badass.
What do you think—was this SNL Second Amendment sketch actually funny? Or just another shot in the culture war?
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