No War On Christmas Here! On Fox & Friends, Gun Club Defends Toddlers Posing With Santa… And Guns

“Everybody wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas, so why not get a real gun when you’re an adult?”

If there was one place in America where you could expect to see photos of people posing with Santa Claus and their AK-47’s, it would be Scottsdale, Arizona, home of the country’s largest indoor gun range.

This morning, Fox & Friends invited Scottsdale Gun Club general manager Ron Kennedy to defend the organization’s controversial practice of having members pose with Santa and their guns.

Gretchen Carlson questioned the appropriateness of these types of images in Arizona in light of last year’s Gabrielle Giffords shooting, which caused Kennedy to launch into his standard speech on safety without addressing the larger implications.

Brian Kilmeade took particular interest in the rules the gun club has put in place for the photos. These include no fingers on the triggers and no guns pointed at Santa. Kilmeade also wanted to know why Santa himself is never photographed holding a gun and didn’t appear to get a satisfying answer from the spokesman.

One fact left unmentioned was the three self-inflicted shootings that have occurred at the Scottsdale Gun Club since 2007, including one this past August. Perhaps those gun-related stories are just a little too dark for Christmas time.

Watch below, via Fox News:

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