The American version of Sophie’s Choice is playing out in Mississippi, and it is every bit as agonizing – more agonizing – than what Sophie endured.
Guns v Football. Guns, Football, Collide. Guns or Football. Guns, Threats, and SEC Football.
If a new bill fails to pass, you will have to choose between the two things you love most: Your AR-15 and the Rebels. You will not be able to bring your gun to university football games.
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Security officer, Vaught–Hemingway Stadium: You may keep one: football or the gun.
Snopes: I beg your pardon?
Security officer: You may keep one. If you fail to choose, you must go away.
Snopes: You mean, I have to choose? I can’t choose. I can’t choose!
Security officer: Be quiet.
Snopes: I can’t choose!
Security officer: Make a choice. Or get out of here. Make a choice.
Snopes: Don’t make me choose! I can’t!
Security officer: Shut up! Enough! I’ll send you out of here! I told you to shut up! Make a choice!
Snopes: I can’t choose! Please! I can’t choose!
Security officer: [To another security officer] Take him away!
[Snopes clings to his gun while the officer escorts him from the stadium.
Snopes finally gestures toward the child he has with him.]
Snopes: Take my little girl! Take my baby!