The Jay Feely Gun Control Lobby
There's nothing quite like a well-timed gun joke with an implied threat of violence.
And who better to provide such humor than Jay Feely.
The former NFL kicker and apparently tone deaf father recently decided to have some fun at the expense of his daughter's boyfriend.
Please hold onto your sides, because they are about to split.
Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys pic.twitter.com/T5JRZQYq9e
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
Wink wink, nudge nudge, chuckle chuckle.
Of course, Feely is presumably a responsible gun owner, as he attempted to explain afterwards.
The prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joke. My Daughter has dated her boyfriend for over a year and they knew I was joking.
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue
Yeah, but still.
Here's the thing.
While no one is reasonably suggesting that this was anything but a joke, we need to consider our current climate of almost weekly school shootings and endless gun violence in general.
This isn't the end of the world, but let's try to get that finger on the societal pulse for a moment.
Apparently, the current CBS analyst was referencing a scene from the classic film Bad Boys 2.
See, this is a movie, though.
Fiction.