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   HUMPHRIES said, 2 months ago

   Yes the “Good Old Days”. The things some clowns think they remember.

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   omQ R said, 2 months ago

   So let me see if I got the lesson, Gramps, spanking is the best form of gun control?

   No, wait, capital punishment has proven not to be a deterrent for murder but spanking definitely works!

   There you go, what our society needs is a good spanking. Keeps us from murder. Sets us straight.

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   toasteroven said, 2 months ago

   “Nope, never killed anyone! Well, if you leave out the war, that is. Let’s go home, and I’ll show you that saber I took of that German Oberleutnant!”

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   senorbullwinkle said, 2 months ago

   “Yes, little Johnny. I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.”

   Little Johnny; Neat-O, Can I have your gun when you die ?

   Grandpa; Yes, johnny, Only if you promise to shoot G-men, who want to take your gun away. And Johnny, remember to always take your gun to political rallies, and shoot any Kennedy’s that might show up
   .
   Little Johnny; I will Grandpa, I will .
   Grampa, when was the last time you got a spankin’ ?

   Grampa; Maybe I’ll tell ya when you get a little older.

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   jrott32 said, 2 months ago

   I think y’all are over-thinking this one… I think he is just saying that if parents would pay more attention to their kids and teach them what is right… then they will do the right things… The gun is just a symbol to perk your ears up because it is “Controversial”… If you take this litterally it really doesn’t present much substance. I get it though, you think he is a conservative so you just talk before you think… and thats ok because that is what small minds do…

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   cdward said, 2 months ago

   Although statistics are always iffy, especially when comparing them across several decades, from what I’ve found, in 1925 the murder rate per 100,000 was 11.3. In 2008 the murder rate per 100,000 was about 5.8.
   I don’t know if the earlier murder rate included such niceties as lynchings (which as we know were not unheard of in the 20s), but these numbers should at least remind us that the good old days were not always as rosy as we remember or want to think – conversely, things today are not always going to heII in a handbasket.

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   cdward said, 2 months ago

   BTW, in terms of spanking: when I got in trouble, I got whipped with a belt. Maybe we should encourage that because I’ve never murdered anyone (of course, I don’t carry a gun either)… On the other hand, among people I grew up with, three of them did carry guns and did murder people. Whether they were spanked or not, I do not know.

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   oldlegodad said, 2 months ago

   jrott32 Yours is the only sane post om this toon today. Most of the posters here have agendas and twist every thing to fit their warp.

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   jim12345 said, 2 months ago

   Life was simpler back in the old days
   Jim :^)

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    harleyquinn said, 2 months ago

    There was a time little Johny would bring his shot gun to school and leave it out side leaning against the wall next to the door. The bell rang and you would go hunting after school. Needed a knife to cut your apple, you would just get out your pocket knife. The same knife you would throw until you got it to stick into the ground during recess.
    
    Now an Eagle Scout has a hacket locked in his trunk so he can teach after school and he gets suspended. A Valedictorian has a butter knife fall out of a box in her car while moving and is suspended.
    The way I see it it was a safer when the parents were parents and the school was a place of learning.

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    Ian Valenzuela said, 2 months ago

    I’m sorry, is this a family of sociopaths? The kid has to ask WHY Gramps never killed anyone? And Grandpa’s answer to that question is nothing to do with morality, or God’s law, or man’s law, but he supposes his parents might have spanked him?

    I guess this underlines a fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives. The liberal grandpa would not have shot anyone because it would be a horrendous act that caused them unspeakable suffering. Conservative grandpa avoids shooting anyone because he is afraid of the consequences.

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    wbr said, 2 months ago

    sr bull get prof help

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    believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

    senor, i thought your post was funny and I did get the last two risque lines

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    ezdeb said, 2 months ago

    Ian sums it up well, I think.

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    WestTex13 said, 2 months ago

    Depends.. Children ask the most interesting of questions.. When they find out someone was a soldier they tend to ask have you ever killed anyone, etc.. There are many such innocent curious questions asked.. The post of the cartoon is good parenting prevents alot..

    Ian your post is truely sad, and casts the typical blame game of judgement of charatcer without forethought..

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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    “Grampa, when you were little did you have a gun?”
    “Once I got a gun I wasn’t little no more.”
    “Did you ever kill anybody?”
    “Nope”
    “Why not?”
    “Parents I guess.”
    “They got him to the hospital in time?’
    “Yep.”
    “Good thing health care was a lot cheaper back then. Huh gramps.”
    “Yeah, especially with all the knife fights!”

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    No, he would have gone to jail for life

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    zzazzenn said, 2 months ago

    Did Gramps carry an AK-47 to a town hall meeting?

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    d_legendary1 said, 2 months ago

    Watch it SenorBullWinkle or the righties will put two in your dome for trying to take their guns away.

    N.R.A.= Crazy people with guns!!!

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    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago

    Saw Gramps, that’s what we called him, the other day I said “Hey gramps howzit?”

    “Grummmrumm”

    “Yeah? How’s Mrs. Gramps”

    “I should’a killed her 20 years ago!”

    “What? Why?”

    “I’d be out by now!”

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    nomad2112 said, 2 months ago

    Well, it was much easier to raise the kids when mom didn’t have to work just to pay dad’s taxes.

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    nospam4me said, 2 months ago

    D.N.C. = Crazy people with Marxist ideology!!

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    dsped said, 2 months ago

    One was indeed statistically safer from murder 50 years ago. The murder rate averaged around 4.5 per 100,000 during the ’50s as opposed to around 6.0 per 100,000 during the ’00s.

    Of course, that means that a mere additional 15 people per MILLION are being killed these days, which doesn’t exactly bolster Chuck’s touching argument.

    Nor does the fact that it often topped 9.0 in the 1930’s.

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    kreole said, 2 months ago

    To toasteroven—You said, “Nope, never killed anyone! Well, if you leave out the war, that is.,etc”. Good point, however, according to Plato, a Nation is like an ant hill. An ant killing an ant from another ant hill is OK. So, killing someone from another country is looked on differently than killing someone within your own borders. Wars thrive because of this cultural phenomenon. I’m not saying it’s right, just that it explains the stomaching of it by the masses.