Approaching cautiously after waiting for an opportune moment to pose his question, Vice President JD Vance reportedly asked a National Guardsman patrolling the nation’s capital Monday if he could touch the man’s service rifle. “Sorry to bother you, sir—is that thing real?” Vance said to a newly armed member of the Ohio National Guard on a D.C. street corner, adding that he was “a little scared,” but if it wasn’t any trouble, he would also love to feel the weight of the private’s M4 rifle in his hands for a couple seconds. […]
I don’t get it. Vance was in the Marines and while he wasn’t in combat, he presumably got basic training on firearms. I know this is a parody but what is it trying to parody?
Maybe ‘gun’ is a euphemism or code for couchfuckers.
I guess it’s imagining scenarios where he could be his creepy sycophantic self. Yeah it doesn’t really hit for me either.
