At 19, Jack Ohman was the youngest syndicated editorial cartoonist in the United States, ever. Now he is one of America’s syndicated middle-aged editorial cartoonists. His work appears in over 300 newspapers.
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Zuhlamon said, 6 months ago
I dunno, I think the Tea Party and Fox News are pretty much the main spewers of hate in this country – an indirect cause of bloodshed (fiscal and human) on their hands.
Molon Labe said, 6 months ago
Using your freedom of speach to critisize those that would use their freedom to disagree with you.
What we really need though is two things;
A way of identifying and quarentining the mentally ill who present a danger to others and..
A means of offering an immediate response to those that would do us harm. We cannot have police at every mall, theater, school and trainstation. Even if we had the trained police, we could not afford the overtime costs.
What we should do is take citzen volunteers, offer them training in what constitutes the legal and justifiable use of deadly physical force. Do background checks on them with regard to their criminal and mental health history. Allow them to be armed at their own expense. Perhaps set regulations regarding uniforms. And then assign them the tasks of providing security at places and locations that the local community decides are important.
In effect, recreate the militia concept.
America, in the past, had been threatened with marauding bands of savages bent on killing people. We responded by organizing ourselves, training ourselves, equipting ourselves, for the protection of ourselves and our neighbors. We could not prevent the attacks of the savages, but we could minimize the damage they could do.
I for one, am willing to return to this concept. Iif you feel less safe with a gun than without one, then fine. You don’t have to join. No one will be conscripted. The milita, like the volunteer fire department, is not for everyone. But don’t tell me that the firemen should be eliminated in order to try to cut down on arson.
sSTttrugglePup said, 6 months ago
No. What we need is a way to cope with reality that doesn’t include intrusive government AND people. The 2nd Amendment Right is as important as all the rest in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution – like the supposed right to privacy that legalizes abortion and the right to free speech that guarantees pornographers can spew almost whatever filth they want.
These extremes allow truth and reality to exist somewhere in America so that its very presence informs us ALL what is right. The right to protect myself and my possessions from the lawless insures that our government will truly continue to enforce these paradigms once they come under fire. Pun not intended…
So, libs – you still got to pay attention to the reasons you were sent to Office in the first place.
I mean…Democracy isn’t your ticket to tyranny.
Stipple said, 6 months ago
curious who these “marauding bands of savages” were that threatened the American Way into vigilantism.
dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
Most psychologists will agree that “pornography” actually tends to reduce violent acts against real people in the vast majority of cases.
Violent speech, whether form La Pierre, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, or others of the ilk, when combined with access to weapons and firepower, DOES lead to violent actions, “nationalism” going to extremes, and war, abroad, and at home.
While “pornography” is relatively benign, violent rhetoric, especially aimed at the “unstable”, is not.
Video games do still get mixed reviews, but it is scary that folks get from them that they are not only immune to violence, but also get the impression they’re omnipotent, and immortal. It doesn’t work that way.
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
Not enough room for ‘F’, crazy libs wanting to take legal guns from citizens.
It’s F.
"Friendly"Kitty said, 6 months ago
Stipple…It was called the British Army – the toadies of the Monarchy sent to deprive the American colonists of any autonomy.
dannysixpack said, 6 months ago
@theopolus
you offer distraction. you propose more zimmermans.
perhaps we can judge the mental health of people based on the size of the magazine they want to buy for their assault weapons.
and i thought we got rid of the ‘maurading bands of savages’, with smallpox laced blankets, at least to start.
dannysixpack said, 6 months ago
@sstttrugglepup
so you try to draw a moral equivalence between privacy, pornography and the extermination of an entire class of elementary school children.
try again.
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
You do realize that Gocomics might have to forward comments like that to the FBI in order to prevent the next mass-shooting by a mentally unstable person, right? Not that I would miss you around here…
Gary McSpook said, 6 months ago
It’s always informative to read what kind of things people will propose after a mass murder. Proposing more mass murder seems rather perverse; but I noticed long ago that you right-wingers can always find reasons to do more killing. It seems to appeal to you.
KenseidenXL
said, 6 months ago
Take a time-out and read the following:
Point #1: Item ‘C’ is a Class III firearm and is illegal for all but a handful of private citizens to own.
Point #2: Item ‘D’ hasn’t been manufactured since the 1990s.
Point #3: Why is it that 9,700 deaths (including suicides and accidents) by gunshot wound (GSW) are unacceptable, but 25,000 deaths every year caused by drunk drivers doesn’t merit the same degree of outrage? It seems to merit no outrage at all.
Point #4: Since 1960, over 2.6 MILLION have died on our highways. Less than 350,000 have died (from all manner) from GSW in the same time frame.
Point #5: A child (0-18yo) is 25 times more likely to die on the drive to school than by a GSW.
Point #6: The DC snipers got their gun and did their rampage during the previous ban.
Point #7: 99.9999% of so-called “assault weapons” are NOT used to commit crimes.
Point #8: The Newtown and Webster shooters did NOT legally own the guns the used.
Point #9: In the US, if you kill someone while committing a crime, you will normally face at least a life sentence for 1st degree murder, UNLESS you kill people while driving drunk. Most who kill while driving drunk (a crime) don’t go to prison for killing people.
You may now return to your mindless anti-gun rants, since your sense of outrage is badly formed and maladjusted.
PlainBill said, 6 months ago
@KenseidenXL
Once again you trot out the same fallacies when you equate highway deaths, drunk drivers, and guns. And of course you top it off by falsifying the number of deaths due to drunk drivers.
For the record. The purpose of an automobile is to move people and products from one place to another. Alcohol is a legal drug that impairs one’s judgement. To that end, strict laws prohibit driving after drinking. An intelligent person would not that as the population goes up deaths due to drunk drivers have dropped, presumably because of the increased severity of the penalties.
The purpose of any gun is to kill something. Don’t pretend that you bought a gun to put holes in targets – a screwdriver will do a better job. And the NRA has consistently opposed ANY legislation that would impede ANYONE from buying any firearm.
And your big lie – traffic deaths from drunk driving have dropped below 10,000 a year – still far too high, but efforts are being made to reduce that number.
dannysixpack said, 6 months ago
^^standard distraction strategy. classroom full of elementary schoolchildren exterminated by a man with a legal semi-automatic weapon with huge magazine. firefighters picked off as they respond to a fire by a man with a semi-automatic rifle like an amusement park game
NOthing to see here, we can live with it, move on
the REAL problem is liberals drunk driving. Funny how effective laws are able to make a real dent in drunk driving deaths but aren’t worth considering in assault weapons attacks.
echoraven said, 6 months ago
“Friends of the Swastika”; hate Hitler but like his ideas.
I’m not sure what law or ban would stop mass shootings (since it’s illegal to mass murder), but all this talk do is prop up gun sales. If ignorance is bliss that the kool aid drinkers must be really happy (though this cartoon is not particularly cheerful…)