There are a lot of really horrible things that have put America on the map: Jerry Springer, our ability to infuse anything edible with cheese, the fact that we're probably working on infusing something inedible with cheese. Guns, however, shouldn't be one of them. The Second Amendment stands as one of many great testaments to the idea of freedom that our forefathers envisioned for their people. They felt a government should trust their people with great responsibility if they truly believed in the concept of freedom and democracy.
Sure, if they came to the present and saw that we primarily use that responsibility for hunting moose from helicopters and negotiating with the Domino's guy they might take it right back, but the idea is what's important.
So to celebrate one of America's latest of many birthday to come because fireworks are technically illegal in my neck of the woods, here are your TV's seven greatest guns.
When he was ten years old, Alan Spencer snuck into a showing of
Dirty Harry. Spencer fell in love with the concept of the movie and its sequels, but for different reasons
than most. While the movies were categorized as drama, Spencer found the idea of such an excessively violent lawman to
be utterly hilarious. At the age of sixteen, Spencer wrote a spoof with a main character he called Sledge Hammer who
would spout his catchphrase "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" right before doing something unimaginably
dangerous.
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