Walton Goggins as a gun enthusiast named Matt…
I’ll allow it. pic.twitter.com/QZpYsfEuye— Matt (@BullMoose75) May 11, 2025
No one would have expected Saturday Night Live to produce content as pro-gun as the sketch that featured Walton Goggins over the weekend. And we’d be willing to bet good money that comedy wizards at SNL didn’t expect the piece to come off as pro-gun as it does.
The writers likely intended the bit as an indictment of the Founders being so deluded as to put the right to keep and bear arms directly after free speech in importance when they imagined the contributions of ‘Matt,’ a colonial era good ol’ boy who was there brainstorming at the drafting of the Bill of Rights. They probably though of him as a dumb redneck and a perfect caricature of every gun owner in America who somehow led the Founders astray.
But that isn’t how it came off. At all.
I liked it, they thought it was so important, only free speech came before it.
You should have seen Florida in 1987 when they went ‘shall issue’, the letters to the editor warned of literal rivers of blood and gun battles for parking spots at Walmart.
Seriously! And since 1987, your chance of being killed by a gun are less than one-half of what they were in 1986. It’s almost as if, more guns mean less crime…
Actually, the original set of Amendments totaled twelve. The first one never gained acceptance and the second one was shelved for almost two centuries before being resurrected and ratified by the States to become effective in 1992 as our most recent and 27 Amendment – deals with Congress’ pay raises.
So the third became our 1st, and the fourth became the 2nd, etc. If we see this as the Founders originally did when they were first brought to discussion, this means they considered the matter of Congress not being able to vote immediate pay raises for themselves as more pressing than the freedoms of speech, press, religious expression, peaceful assembly, petition of grievances, and the RKBA.
Or, the order of the initial list has no connection to “importance”.
The SNL writers could not completely come full circle on the 2nd being the guarenteer of the 1st amendment when they tried in the script for the “reason” for the next amendment.
Fucking hell. That’s awesome. I’d really like to know the story of how that came to be. Seems like one of those once in a decade flukes these shows sometimes experience.
Goggins’ character on “Justified,” Boyd Crowder, was supposed to be killed off in the first episode. His performance forced the producers to keep Boyd alive, and he was the main foil for the entire run of the show.
The order of the first ten amendments of the Constitution reflect the order the news of their ratification reached Pennsylvania, not their importance… Considering the lack of even a postal system made that delivery fairly irregular.
They had to throw in the text at the end that said he got shot as he walked out, as in you’re an idiot for supporting the 2A because you’ll get shot.
You got that right. The end of the skit makes everyone who even thinks that “GUNS” is a good idea is a fool and a jerk. It implies that EVERYONE is gonna be shot sooner or later. I don’t think the writers of the skit were trying to support the 2nd at all, in fact, I think they were doing the exact opposite. Redneck good ole boy who soon gets shot and is never heard from again. The whole skit displays their whole agenda.