Matt Davies for April 26, 2012

his fly is open…how convenient for our elected representatives

Why are liberals and democrats so against Americans having the right to defend themselves? What are they really planning, that they do not want us stopping?

The NRA is one of the most powerful advocacy groups. And get on our knees to thank you for defending your 2nd Amendment rights? As if it were scripture. The constitution was designed to be changed – and that amendment needs to go. The need for arms is mostly in the heads of paranoid whackoes who think someone’s after them. (and they’re the scarriest thing in this country). By the way, your little guns aren’t what protect us from an overreaching government. After all, we have the best financed army in the world. And as my right-wing friends often tell me, if guns were made illegal, they’d just get them illegally.

More people die from gunfire from fellow citizens, and their own family members, than prevent their toys from being stolen. I’m not wild about having assassins roaming the streets, and I’m especially not wild about the NRA telling us that somehow preventing people ON THE TERRORIST WATCH LIST from buying guns is unconstitutional. It doesn’t need an amendment, the 2nd amendment is very clear that it applies to militias. It needs sane judges.

Yes, but an automobile has an express purpose other than causing grievous bodily harm. A gun is designed to put holes in human beings. There are millions upon millions of automobile operating-hours occurring every day, which of course result in some accidents and fatalities. A gun in your home is more likely to hurt or kill someone by accident than to ever be successfully used to fend off a threat.

The latest news on what Tampa is doing to prepare for 15,000 protestors is that they will have a small roped in area to gather but they WON’T have guns.The gun part goes against recently passed state laws, allowing people with permits to have their guns. I have a feeling a lot of lawyers are going to get rich fighting the government.

those are cool, but they don’t have the pouch to put the representative that was bought by your party in.

People who have a concealed carry permit commit almost NO gun crimes. They are law abiding citizens, not crazies. I belong to a gun club. The people in that club are fine law abiding individuals. There are no wackos. The gun club people are no different than the people in the antique car club that I also belong to. If guns are taken from us, the “bad people” will simply use baseball bats, knives etc.

@Bruce4671I certainly agree that criminals will still have guns. As I see it, If guns are taken from us, criminals will not turn them in and only they will have guns.

so what we are faced with is the fact that law abding people don’t use guns for crime and criminals will have guns even if they are banned. I support legal gun ownership.

“I would welcome legislation that required those that want to be gun owners to attend weekend duty with the national guard and to be on call to assist in any national emergency situation. But how would you pay for it?”

Actually, I’ve been endosing that idea for a long time. We pay for it by reducing our standing army (by attrition, not mass decommission). In addition to weekend duty (say once a month) there would be a two-week (or whatever) yearly requirement for “active duty,” on a rotation. Live on a base, drill, discipline, command structure… We won’t need to build any new bases, since there’ll be room available in what we already have, and it would provide ongoing employment for civilians, both as on-base support and in nearby communities.

And of course, in case there IS a need for a mass mobilization (domestic or otherwise), we can more easily stave off a Draft, since those who are willing to fire and face fire have already committed their availability.

So the childish post here is meant to produce what exactly? You make no point, throw random things in the air and hope they make sense?

“Apparently ignorance is the easy way. Guess we’ll never get anything useful out of your posts.”

Ignorance about what? There are so many things about which I cannot claim perfect knowledge that you’ll have to be more specific.

Stephen Fry compared knowledge to sand: You may say to a man who has just been to the beach “My you have a lot of sand”, but when you think of all the sand in the world, everybody is pretty much sandless.

Or, as Gallagher (I believe) put it, “Everybody’s ignorant, just on different subjects.”

“What is the average air speed of an unladen swallow?”

Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so quick to assert my ignorance. When questions like that are being tossed around, saying “I don’t know” can have perilous consequences.

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .

I am extremely pro gun and extremely anti NRA. They are an un—American, lying and seditious organization bent on overthrowing the elected government of the United States….they cynically make money by making people fear their own government…..People who support them are paranoid conspiracy types. I think we need guns to defend us from the NRA jerks and fools…

No point trying to talk sense into you. There’s a thick skull that won’t take it sitting on your shoulders. Nice rant for someone who can’t read, though.

If every one had a gun fucundity wouldn’t matter and Undertakers would rule the world.

Why isn’t this cartoon updating? Matt Davies has published three new cartoons since April 26.

http://mattdaviescartoon.com/