MV our Guns Correspondent writes:

Last week the U.S congress allowed a 1994 ban on assault weapons to expire. One of our researchers had the opportunity to question a congressman about the ban on condition of anonymity.

“We just basically couldn’t arsed with it,” was his immediate response, “we’ve all been pretty busy recently, have you seen the Simple Life 2 with that Paris Hilton? It's fucking brilliant.”

The ban put a cap on the number of bullets a magazine could hold, restricting civilians to just 10 bullets per clip.

“Research has shown that the average American only wants to shoot 6 people, so the limit on magazine capacity is largely irrelevant,” said Daniel Myers NRA president for Boise, Idaho "in fact for some people it's less" he added, before admitting to hovering around the "3-4 margins ... depending on when I last got laid".

Only really hates 5 people...

In the early 90s the U.S. Post Office was held responsible for a number of workplace shootings after it blanketed the country with advertising urging folks to “Get to work and go postal”.

The Canary Islands Tourism Board also attracted similar criticism after an advertising campaign advised people to "go Balearics" a message many illierate people in the Bible-Belt South read as "go ballistic". Most of them are now studying for their PhD's on Death Row.

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