Yay guns!

In the Saturday Night Live sketch about guns entitled "Guns" it shows a myriad of different people in different situations.  The theme is things that everyone can relate to and has experiences with things like love, family, and connection. The music behind it is soothing and puts you in a calm space, something typical of a calm positive ad for things or ideas that people should cherish and maintain. The last thing that it says everyone can share in is guns.  Making guns seem like something that is and should be present in everyday life and interactions, especially with those you love.

This ad is an example of situational irony.  In situations like those shown in this video, from a situation with a grandparent and there grandchild, to a dinner with your significant other to a party, guns are placed in each.  The gun is seen as a symbol of love and viewed extremely normally.  Of course as people know about guns they are absolutely not associated with these circumstances.  Guns, in reality, are violent, dangerous weapons that most people don't want near them.  The gun in this instance is an object that completely doesn't fit, but is viewed through a lens of normalcy. 

What this video is trying to show is that guns are so prevalent in our society and in a way they are "normalized." However this shouldn't be something that is okay or normal.  They are very dangerous and being found in places they shouldn't be, as in this video someone has it in their bed. As a society we need to realize how truly abnormal it would be for guns to be recognized in these circumstances, or any, for that matter.  It forces us to look at our laws and regulations and think, could this actually be the direction that something with as big a magnitude as guns is going. This satire was done well as it is funny to see people act so happily in situations with guns, but really, commenting on our countries problem with guns and that something needs to change.