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Just when we thought the national, anti-gun media couldn’t sink any lower, NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) proved us wrong. Saturday evening’s (Nov. 13) show opened with the regular broadcast of SNL being interrupted by a mock, special NBC News report. The mock report was coverage of a mass shooting at NRA headquarters in Washington, D.C. (leave it to NBC to not even do the most basic research to correctly identify our headquarters as being located in Fairfax, Va.). As if making a mockery of a mass shooting at your NRA headquarters was not tasteless enough, the show went even further by portraying NRA President Charlton Heston and other staff as being impressed with the shooter’s marksmanship skills. In noting that NRA officials would not press charges against the shooter, the mock news interviewer questioned the shooter, who was holding a trophy “awarded” to him by NRA officials. This skit, coupled with the media’s reporting on recent mass shootings at schools and businesses, conveys the troubling image that, while these latter incidents are to be met with grief, shock, and horror, portraying such a scenario at NRA headquarters is a subject to be treated with humor. Everyone likes a good joke and should be able to laugh at themselves. This, however, doesn’t fall into that category. Making light of a slaughter at our national headquarters clearly falls outside the boundaries of good taste, and you need to express your sentiments to NBC and Saturday Night Live. ACTION ITEM: Please call NBC’s “Comments Line” at 212/664-2333 or E-mail NBC from their website at www.nbc.com to express your displeasure over this distasteful skit. You may also write them at: “NBC Viewer Relations,” 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112. PLEASE CONTACT NBC IMMEDIATELY & ENCOURAGE YOUR FELLOW NRA MEMBERS TO DO SO AS WELL!

Uploaded: 11/20/1999