Arizona made The Daily Show again last night as John Oliver came to Tucson to look into the controversy over the gun buyback that Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik did back at the beginning of the year. Between Shaun McClusky’s shotgun giveaway and Rep. John Kavanagh’s bathroom bill, we’re sure a correspondent will be back in the state before too long.
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.
And the dude never figured out he was being spoofed, it appeared
The dude is spoofing the NRA. He cannot be that stupid. Can he?
but hold on is it really legal to sell a gun to a stranger on the street like that??
Isn’t it great how Tucson is always reliable for things like this? Anyone remember the 60 Minutes piece from 1993 or 1994 about the U of A? Or Robert Kaplan’s Atlantic Monthly article from around 1998 where the author laid bare some of the more enduring social ills of the city? Copies magically disappeared quickly from racks and even from the UA library, almost certainly rounded up by civic boosters and convention and visitors bureau types whose ears were cracking at the sound of anything not positive about the town. Or how about even more recently, in the epic performance of Michael Hicks on the Daily Show, where Mr. Hicks, like the stout Mr. Heller in this segment, was left to cast himself in the most negative light possible, with really no assistance from the interviewer?
We might deride Phoenix (and rightly so), but it sure does seem that Tucson’s always good for making a chump of itself when the national media turns its way.
I thought he kept it together just fine. Those interviews must be tough/weird.
A piece of advice to those supporting the “right to life” movement for discarded firearms – sometimes its better to keep your mouth shut and have people think your a “wacko”, instead of opening it and removing all sense of doubt.