Rep. Joe Wilson and his colleagues will support your cause if you ring the right bell
Last week, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson joined a few current and former politicians trying to convince the public they should not be held responsible for saying on camera that toddlers should be armed with guns in schools in order to prevent school shootings.
Wilson claims to have been the victim of a prank that was actually part of Sacha Baron Cohen's new Showtime series, Who is America? In this particular segment, Cohen poses as Col. Erran Morad (a.k.a., the "Terrorist Terminator" ), an Israeli touting his "Kinder Guardians" initiative to American politicians. The groundbreaking program, Cohen would like to have you believe, introduces children age 4-16 to pistols, rifles, and even heavier weapons. More than that, though, Cohen's dubious program trains these children to operate these weapons for the purpose of being able to use them in classrooms for the prevention of future school shootings.
One of a handful of politicians to appear during the promo, Wilson says straight to camera, "A 3-year-old cannot defend itself from an assault rifle by throwing a Hello Kitty pencil case at it. Our founding fathers did not put an age limit on the Second Amendment."
While being interviewed by Morad, Larry Pratt, a prominent gun lobby leader with the Gun Owners of America, says he knows of several politicians that might be amenable to the program's cause — after he laughs as Cohen's character jokes that "it's not rape if it's your wife."
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