Amy Schumer has become an outspoken advocate for tougher gun control laws, following a fatal shooting last year at a showing of her 2015 film “Trainwreck” in Lafayette, La. “We need a background-check system without holes and fatal flaws,” she said at the time.

On Thursday, Schumer addressed the issue through satire, on her Comedy Central show “Inside Amy Schumer.” In a sketch at the start of the episode, Schumer appears as Amy, the host of a home shopping network, where she pitches viewers on a “no-brainer” gift: a handgun.

“Here is what’s great about this,” Amy says. “Almost anyone can purchase this.” She and her co-host, Kyle, reassure skeptical viewers — an ex-felon, a suspected terrorist — that they, too, will be able to purchase a gun.

A ticker runs along the bottom of the screen with messages such as: “If you’re mentally ill, you’d be mentally ill not to give us a call!”

At one point, an alarm goes off and the hosts excitedly announce that there’s been a mass shooting. “Which means the government could be coming for your guns soon, which they never have, but always might,” Amy says.

The sketch wraps up after Kyle mishandles the firearm and, well, you can probably guess what happens next.

In a stand-up scene following the sketch, Schumer recalls the shooting, and why she decided to advocate for gun control, despite skepticism about celebrities getting involved with political causes.

“I met with people — victims families — and they have, like, buttons with the pictures of their children and they’re like, ‘Will you help us because no one listens to politicians, they listen to you idiots,'” Schumer said. “And what are you going to be like? ‘No, I don’t want to annoy people on Reddit?'”

The episode also sees Schumer interviewing Brina Milikowsky, chief strategy officer for the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.

The comedian, who appears on the cover of Vanity Fair’s May issue, told the magazine about the day she found out about the Louisiana shooting. “I was by myself in a hotel, and I was just like ‘I wish I never wrote that movie,'” Schumer said.

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