This cartoon is in reference to Joe Nocera’s Gun Report in the NYT, and the recent slate.com article, tabulating all shootings since Newtown that are reported in the news. Guns kill their owners and their children at a much, much higher rate than they prevent crime.
The Southern States lobbied for the Second Amendment to insure that slaves were kept subjugated. By “Militia” our Founding Fathers meant the “slave patrols” that were necessary to prevent slave uprisings:
Nobody reasonable is saying that honest citizens can not, or even should not, have such items as hand guns, rifles, or shot guns. But, anything can be taken to extremes (you can die from drinking too much water, which is ordinarily a very good thing for you). Also, knives, automobiles, and even poisons have legitimate uses other than killing your fellow human beings (or other creatures for that matter). Other than hunting (which no longer a necessity for the food to remain alive and active in our civilized technological society), guns generally have no other uses than to kill. And that is why guns should be at least as regulated as automobiles, with their licenses for both drivers and automobiles (and even special licenses for heavy vehicles such as trucks). And if you were to say, then let us properly administer the laws already on the books, I would have no problems with agreeing with you at all. Heck, I am even for allowing those that must have the “fun” of firing totally automatic very powerful guns to be able to go to special firing ranges and do so to their hearts content. I just do not think that they should then be allowed to take such lethal weaponry home with them!!
The land of fear, mistrust and hatred… given the quality of comments here. The gun fetish that’s part of your culture is kind of strange from those who watch the US fishbowl with amazement.
Love seeing all you right wing nut jobs get your panties in a twist over a cartoon. No wonder your power base is shrinking. One fact remains, the USA per capita has the highest number of gun deaths by a huge margin over any other non-warring country. Why? Easy access to weapons.
ARodney over 10 years ago
This cartoon is in reference to Joe Nocera’s Gun Report in the NYT, and the recent slate.com article, tabulating all shootings since Newtown that are reported in the news. Guns kill their owners and their children at a much, much higher rate than they prevent crime.
B_Da Author Premium Member over 10 years ago
The Southern States lobbied for the Second Amendment to insure that slaves were kept subjugated. By “Militia” our Founding Fathers meant the “slave patrols” that were necessary to prevent slave uprisings:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/01/16/founding-fathers-words-reveal-2nd-amendment-was-to-preserve-slavery/
frodo1008 over 10 years ago
Nobody reasonable is saying that honest citizens can not, or even should not, have such items as hand guns, rifles, or shot guns. But, anything can be taken to extremes (you can die from drinking too much water, which is ordinarily a very good thing for you). Also, knives, automobiles, and even poisons have legitimate uses other than killing your fellow human beings (or other creatures for that matter). Other than hunting (which no longer a necessity for the food to remain alive and active in our civilized technological society), guns generally have no other uses than to kill. And that is why guns should be at least as regulated as automobiles, with their licenses for both drivers and automobiles (and even special licenses for heavy vehicles such as trucks). And if you were to say, then let us properly administer the laws already on the books, I would have no problems with agreeing with you at all. Heck, I am even for allowing those that must have the “fun” of firing totally automatic very powerful guns to be able to go to special firing ranges and do so to their hearts content. I just do not think that they should then be allowed to take such lethal weaponry home with them!!
ColinJames over 10 years ago
The land of fear, mistrust and hatred… given the quality of comments here. The gun fetish that’s part of your culture is kind of strange from those who watch the US fishbowl with amazement.
JPTewel over 10 years ago
Love seeing all you right wing nut jobs get your panties in a twist over a cartoon. No wonder your power base is shrinking. One fact remains, the USA per capita has the highest number of gun deaths by a huge margin over any other non-warring country. Why? Easy access to weapons.
ossiningaling over 10 years ago
Now THAT’S a gunsucker.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Roughly 60% ARE suicides, mostly men. Women tend to try overdosing, and many survive, among those guys with guns, very few fail to succeed.