A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.
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DrCanuck said, 5 months ago
As a Canadian living in the USA, I couldn’t understand the attraction to guns. Then one day, my neighbour shot a pair of deer, drained their blood into plastic milk jugs, bought a plastic deer decoy, put the buckets of blood in it, and then blazed away with his semi-automatic until blood and deer bits flew all over his yard.
And then I understood.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
Irony that in this case it was the mother who was the gun lover!
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Pro Murderer er.
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ODon said, 5 months ago
The right to bear arms.
The right to bare children.
The right to the pursuit of happiness.
As a nation we have a lot to resolve.
AgentSmith101 said, 5 months ago
As a fellow hunter I’d like to say that he’s a very extreme and sick outlier, but I don’t know where in the US you currently live.
MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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Life. Never thought about it this way. Would of course be co-adopted by the anti-abortion crowd, but could be used in the context of military-style mass-murderer weapons first…
PepeLePew2010 said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
Yep.
The more things change the more they stay the same…….
ahab
said, 5 months ago
I wasn’t even supposed to work that night. I had finished a long day of meeting, and found out at 6:30 pm that a colleague had influenza. Could I fill in for him? ‘Just power through until 8 am," I thought. “Nothing too bad happens on Thursday nights.” T he Emergency Department(ED) was full, with another 10 patients in the waiting room. We were on “divert”, meaning ambulances would bypass University of Colorado Hospital and head elsewhere. Then about 12:30 am a call came in over the dispatch radio. There’d been a shooting at an Aurora theater. Nine minutes later, we received a frantic police call. Multiple shooting victims, Not enough ambulances. Officers would haul patients to hospitals, including ours. So much for divert. The first police car showed up at 1:06 am. It looked like a crime scene, with blood splattered throughout. As we pulled the first two victims out of the car, another arrived. In total, nine police cars and an ambulance rolled in within 45 minutes. … I am proud that every single patient who arrived with a pulse that night,22 of the 23, is still alive today. People talk about the “Aurora massacre,” but to me, considering how many seriously injured people were saved, it was the “Aurora miracle.” Comilla Sasson,M.D,M.S. University of Colorado attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the U.of Colorado.
ahab
said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
Yeah, those blood-thirsty deer will bite your head off if you get close to ‘em. They’re “wicked,” cagey ba$tard$,they are! (Read with a Scottish accent) I wish to extend extreme apologies to English Teacher.
ahab
said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
^ Which is why assault rifles are needed to swiss cheese the cagey blokes! Eh?
ahab
said, 5 months ago
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More guns = unbalanced people have better access to them as well.
Rickapolis said, 5 months ago
Most guys look at guys as a phallic substitute. True or false? Answer is obvious, isn’t it?
braindead08 said, 5 months ago
@Rickapolis
Rick, you might want to proof read a little more.
Tigger
said, 5 months ago
Alcoholic Beverages kill people every day, ergo, using the :Liberal Logic, if we ban the manufacture and sell of all Alcoholic Beverages, we will reduce the number of Drunk Drivers killing innocent motorist.
comicsssfan said, 5 months ago
It doesn’t get any more true than this. Wow!
comicsssfan said, 5 months ago
@Rickapolis
Maybe not “most” guys…but there are some.