More guns, to prove there are too many
The story responds to the long national argument about gun ownership, and to advocacy groups that keep searching for a message that finally lands.
Every Smattering story starts from a real event and goes exactly one step further. Here is the step, and the line we did not cross.
“Our research took three hours on social media and most of a cable news marathon. We feel very confident.”
The real news2023, Portland, OR
Years of campaigns have not moved the debate much in either direction. That frustration is real on every side, and it is the starting point.
The escalationOne step further
Our nonprofit, Unpull the Trigger, decides the fastest way to show there are too many guns is to give every gun owner a free second rifle. The research took three hours on social media.
Where we drew the line
The nonprofit and its staff are invented. No real victims of gun violence appear in the story or in the joke.
Read itThe story itself
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