Fathers subtly threatening their daughters’ boyfriends with guns is a trope as old as time. But members of the anti-gun left were recently triggered when former NFL star and CBS sports analyst Jay Feely posted a funny posed prom photo featuring a firearm.
In the photo, Feely stands in between his daughter and her prom date, a gun in his hand. “Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys,” Feely captioned the photo on Twitter.
Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom #BadBoys pic.twitter.com/T5JRZQYq9e
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
Judging by their faces in the photo, Feely’s daughter and her date are clearly in on the joke, and Feely is practicing good gun safety by pointing the barrel down and away from them, his finger off the trigger. There’s also a very good chance that the safety is on and it’s unloaded. But liberals who saw the photo on Twitter didn’t take any of that into consideration and immediately attacked.
One person called the photo “terribly out of touch” even though they understood the reference:
https://twitter.com/ourdailyquest/status/987895488241422336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Others suggested that Feely’s desire to protect his child indicated that he wanted to take away her free will and considered her his “property”:
https://twitter.com/itamer/status/987927501539131392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
He is also apparently sending a message that he owns his daughter, and this kid better not trespass on his "property".
— Anita Napp (@Anita_Nappzz) April 22, 2018
Cool to know if your daughter has any self agency you’ll shoot her boyfriend.
— ally (@missmayn) April 22, 2018
And many took the photo as proof that Feely is an irresponsible gun owner.
https://twitter.com/anthonytx42/status/987871455919656961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Let's see…Daddy poses for a photo by standing between daughter and her date, while holding a hand gun!? The clear message is what? That you own a gun? You make a strong case that MANY GUN OWNERS SHOULD NOT OWN A GUN!! Totally irresponsible.
— Larry's Wayenin! (@WeCU12) April 22, 2018
https://twitter.com/lcleary1959/status/987914073101750272
Amid all the insane liberal outrage, Feely attempted to explain exactly what intelligent people understood from the beginning: that his daughter and her boyfriend were in on the joke and the gun was not loaded.
The prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joke. My Daughter has dated her boyfriend for over a year and they knew I was joking.
I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) April 22, 2018
Of course, the apology wasn’t good enough, and liberals continued to accuse Feely of being tone deaf amid the current social and political climate surrounding students and guns.
https://twitter.com/ChandaFinch/status/988076631548944385
First, they come for our guns, and now they’re coming for our sense of humor. If liberals ever get their way, not only will we not be allowed to defend ourselves, but we won’t be allowed to make jokes about anything, either.
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