Nasty, brutish and short is not an aspiration

[sawyl]

Watching the NRA's bizarre mirror-world response to the recent shootings in the US — essentially a claim that a return to Hobbes' war of all against all is better than any form of gun control — it hard to believe they expected to be taken serious. Indeed, on C4 News, Matt Frei had to preface the statement and an example of a typical NRA advert with a series of warnings that the pieces were not intended to be taken as spoofs.