Dana Summers is the creator of the comic strip Bound and Gagged. He also finds time to co-create a second strip, The Middletons, with fellow Orlando Sentinel cartoonist Ralph Dunagin. His third job is editorial cartoonist for The Orlando Sentinel. His editorial cartoons have been in syndication since 1985.
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pirate227 said, 3 months ago
Yup, those children killed in Prince Georges County, MD are dead because of… Hollywood movies, not guns.
Stipple said, 3 months ago
“Hollywood” is a diverse group of people, as are republicans and democrats.
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On the other hand, the NRA management has less diversity.
flake-67121 said, 3 months ago
Hollywood is only part of the hypocrisy.
We defend our President———————with men with guns
We defend our Congressmen————-with men with guns
We defend our Governors——————-with men with guns
We defend our celebrities——————-with men with guns
We defend our sporting events———-with men with guns
We defend our jewelry stores————with men with guns
We defend our banks—————————with men with guns
We defend our office buildings————with men with guns
We defend our factories———————-with men with guns
We defend our courts—————————with men with guns
We defend our children————————with a sign that reads: “GUN FREE ZONE.” ’
- Ken Kaîketsu Stanton
Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago
Why is it that they watch the same violent movies all over the world, but don’t have the same problems with guns? Quit blaming Hollywood.
ARodney said, 3 months ago
Sorry, Uncle Joe. Don’t talk to sense to a conservative. It wastes your time and annoys the conservative.
Robert Landers said, 3 months ago
@Uncle Joe Not only that, but are Americans really so stupid as to not realize that Hollywood movie violence is not real?
Some time ago there was a big deal about the violence in Looney Tunes. As if Wiley Coyote could fall off a high cliff, and then have a large boulder fall on him, and then in the next scene be using some kind of an Acme Co. device to try and catch that elusive Roadrunner!!
Yeah, as if that was real!!!
Radish
said, 3 months ago
I find this trend of making fairy tales into stupid violent movies is kind of disturbing. The violence of Hansel and Gretel Witchunters, and “Jack the Giant Slayer” are symbols of our age of common mass murder.
dtroutma
said, 3 months ago
The violence in Brothers Grimm fairy tales didn’t lead to people murdering people en masse. Nor did the Illiad or other ancient tales, even those focused on war.
It is the GUN CULTURE, combined with the “I can do whatever I want with guns” attitude in the U.S., more than any other nation, that makes the violence here “acceptable”, not the movies.
South Africa has a lot of violent crime, as do other countries where guns are easy to get, and the value on human life is low. WE are the “industrialized nation” leader in deaths by gun, or other homicide, period. It IS the “worshipping” of guns, not their use as tools for hunting that makes the difference. The readiness to get, and use, guns in crime is an issue of opportunity, and that is the NRA, not MGM, ABC, CBS, or even Fox with their “crime” shows.
Jase99 said, 3 months ago
They just give ’em what they want.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 months ago
Stephen king had a book revoked when felt it influenced kids too much to commit violence with guns. So point is – media can inspire to do things, but they aren’t the cause. Same reason there is an age restriction to watch said things.
echoraven said, 3 months ago
@Uncle Joe
The cartoon does not blame Hollywood, it just exposes their hypocrisy in asking for gun control while making movies that glorify gun violence. If they would simply STFU then this cartoon would have no legs; but the fact that they think they know better than we do, makes the toon relevant.
parkerfields
said, 3 months ago
@Robert Landers
The average person has the sense to realize that Hollywood movie violence is not real. But that same group of people do not do crazy things like go on a killing spree. However, there are a few crazy people that are influenced by Hollywood, and it is those crazy people that do the killing. You wouldn’t be stupid enough to be influence by Hollywood, but you also wouldn’t be stupid enough to kill like that.
parkerfields
said, 3 months ago
@dtroutma
If the gun culture is causing people to go on killing sprees, then I guess we should take the guns from all policemen. Also, you would expect policemen to be the largest segment of our society that goes on killing sprees. Reality says otherwise. You listen to the wrong people to get your logic.
parkerfields
said, 3 months ago
The cartoon is right on target.