An Aussie bloke has become an overnight sensation on YouTube with his love song for guns.
Bill Chambers' clip I Like Guns has been viewed more than 1.26 million times in the six weeks it has been online.
The video shows country musician Chambers shooting at everything from watermelons to cars, with everything from muzzleloaders to a fully automatic M60 and a rocket-propelled grenade.
Since you are not legally allowed to fire a rocket propelled grenade in the former British penal colony, Lee had to travel to Cambodia to film much of the clip.
A musician, Lee normally performs with his wife and four children. This time he was inspired to write the song many years ago because “guns get such a bad press”.
He said guns are portrayed as a bad thing, however he wanted to show that they can be used for fun and sport and not violence.
The lyrics with lines like “God gave me this voice so I can be a singer, so you tell me why I've got a trigger finger'' have gone down well in the US where many still have a fantasy of the Wild West and believe it is their god given right to be able to cut another living being in half with superior fire power.
He has been interviewed by US media, including a journalist from the National Rifle Association, and the song is No. 1 on the chart of the online music distributor CD Baby.
However, not everyone is happy. The President of Gun Control Australia, John Crook, said the song was irresponsible for portraying guns as fun and non-violent. "Guns are designed to kill. The gun control laws we have in Australia have only been obtained after thousands of people have been killed.''
gun law
and the song rocks
Actually we believe in the right to use effective tools to defend ourselves against deadly threats. I suspect Australians believe in the right of self defense too, you just don't trust normal citizens enough to let them have powerful tools.
If a government can no longer trust the citizens it serves, that government needs to be replaced.
Bill Chambers produced the video.
I enjoyed watching this chuffed, chur-bro bang on about "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", even though some of his fellow Underlanders think he's a vegemite short of a full sarnie picnic.
There's no need for Lee and Chambers to get tits in a tangle over the likes of Conroy and Crook, and "She Said She Said", and "And Your Bird Can Sing".
There are enough shooters to go around...
Now, the internet is more popular than the Beatles, and John Lennon apologized for that rift between himself and Jesus, and The BBC would like to apologize for Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The budgie smugglers who organise the public bonfires should be knocked on their arses by a bolt of lightning. Good on em and like as they are really really quite nice.
Well, witches burn because they're made of... splinter groups. Isn't it good Norwegian Wood?
I reckon if you go kicking around lucy lucy in the Outback (there's some lovely filth down there too), you just may need Pol Pot as your cover man.
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If you ever go back into Wooly Swamp
Well you'd better not go at night
There's things out there in the middle 'them woods
that'd make a strong man probably cry
Things that crawl things that fly and
things that creep around on the ground.
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But there's some things in this world you just can't explain
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