Best. Parent. Ever. Tommy Jordan for president.

That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube video featuring the North Carolina dad shooting up his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop with a .45 went viral this week.

The shooting part — which has provided a glorious moment of catharsis to many parents — doesn’t happen until the very end of the eight-minute video called “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen.” First, Jordan sets the scene by reading from an expletive-filled Facebook post written by his daughter, in which she complains about the chores her parents make her do.

Bratty? Definitely. Typical? Totally.

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