Wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom
#BadBoys
This is a tweet sent by former NFL placekicker Jay Feely the other night as his daughter left for her prom with her boyfriend. Feely spent 14 years booting oblate spheroids in stadiums across America, and became a commentator for NFL games for CBS in 2014.
CBS puts on a lot of news broadcasts that Feely ought to watch. As funny as he might find it to portray an image of Big Bad Daddy menacing the young man taking his daughter (whom he apparently considers his personal property) to a dance, he might have seen on the news a story or two about the carnage wreaked on high schoolers in this nation by guns.
Of course, the very next morning, he was all over himself mansplaining how we were all wrong to dislike the original tweet.
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
OK, Jay. First of all, jokes are supposed to be funny. Playing CopDad is not funny, nor is standing around with a gun in one's hand.
Second of all, being insensitive is not a matter of intent. Either one is in tune with the feelings of others, or one is not.
You will notice in this life that the oafs and galoots who dot the landscape regularly go out of their way to put their foolishness on display. Not enough to brandish his shootin' iron for the two young people who wanted to go have fun at a prom and forget for one evening how guns have cast a pall on this nation, no sir. He had to get pictures and tweet all over himself.
No, he had to make the whole evening all about Jay Feely, which is why I hope his daughter and her boyfriend are good enough to forgive him.
The prom and the picture and the tweet all are from the same Saturday night in America that a clearly deranged young man took a weapon of mass destruction into a Waffle House - a gun that authorities had taken from him after he attempted to take it to the White House, only to have his father return it to him - and kill four people. This person, Travis Reinking, was recently running amok claiming that Taylor Swift was stalking him. Good idea to give his guns back to him.
And none of this causes anyone to stop and consider doing anything.
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