Mike Luckovich, editorial cartoonist of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. His work also appears in Time, the New York Times and other media. He is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.
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masterskrain said, 4 months ago
America, Home of the Best Politicians Money can buy!
An “Honest Politician” is one who once he is bought, STAYS bought!
Omnius said, 4 months ago
The NRA is the criminal’s best friend, just ask the Mexican drug gangs who’ve gotten so many assault rifles from America. Every gun crime couldn’t be committed without the help of the NRA. The money the corrupt politicians take from the NRA is Blood Money.
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 4 months ago
And this will keep happening, with the acronym on the cap changing over and over, until we remove private money from politics. Of course, that’s like asking heroin addicts to vote for stricter drug laws.
jcmckain
said, 4 months ago
As Deep Throat said to the FBI agents, “Follow the money.”
DavidGBA said, 4 months ago
Gotta be some gun manufacturer money in the NRA coffers, too! Having an African-American president has sold so many guns, much ammo, to paranoid fools.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago
Once again the debate is focused DOWN. It’s about what happens to the end buyer, and NOTHING is focused UP at the manufacturer or the special interest group (the one that pretends to be lobbying for the end buyer, but that’s only because the end buyer sends membership dues.)
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Nothing about outlawing Gun shows! We want smaller magazines? Yeah! That’ll do it?
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The only solution is the technological solution! Update the specs for all guns! Obsolete the old guns (and here is as good as any a place to remind people what is happening
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Yes, guns are flying off the shelves, why? Because it’s like the Tickle Me Elmo. I buy the gun today and then they get made illegal so mine is "grandfathered and I can sell it to a “Collector” for a sweet profit! Those who think it means that the public is gearing up for war are deluding themselves! This is a “Bubble” market, just like the tulip bulbs.) New guns need a GPS kill switch and a finger print reader trigger mechanism.
Bullets need an RFID sensor that disables the bullet in public areas.
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Personal protection weapons need a range of no more than 20 feet (the projectile self destructs, there make be injuries, but they are unlikely to be lethal to bystanders.)
Bruce4671 said, 4 months ago
@ReasonsVentriloquist
hahahahahaha….gps kill switch! Yeah BABY!
Let’s see. Tech advances, we have our guns (as do the criminals) and being “law abidin’” citizens, we have the new tech. Now the criminals, they have the new guns too, but that GPS stuff? Naw, we disabled that sh.t. Just a chip anyway. And as for the RFID stuff? All ya got to do is dip the bullet in a bath of this new tech microfilm and blocks the signal. so….ok but we ain’t going to no public building we going to YOUR house and I got me one of those GPS kill switches from the military surplus store…..hahahahahaha!
RV for every tech advance to limit a CRIMINAL there is a CRIMINAL that will find a way around it. The proposals are all fine and dandy but they will only limit and restrict those that OBEY THE LAW.
Now if you were to find a way to keep a murderer from killing again under all circumstances….oh wait….there IS a way but we outlaw it as “inhumane” to euthanize a person that say rapes a 16 year old girl and cuts off both her arms. ……….. or maybe a way to keep mentally disturbed people from “acting out” … but no they have rights too so……
Oh I know let’s just take away the rights of people that have committed no crime.
gocomics0128 said, 4 months ago
@Omnius
you’re the reason they make “you’re stupid” T shirts
JoeCoolLives said, 4 months ago
@DavidGBA
DavidGBA said, about 2 hours ago
Gotta be some gun manufacturer money in the NRA coffers, too! Having an African-American president has sold so many guns, much ammo, to paranoid fools.
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They’re not all paranoid, an’ they’re not all fools.
It’s BHO’s policies an’ positions, as well as his constant lying, that have caused many Americans to fear for their nation as well as for themselves.
You don’t have to look very far – or scratch very deep – to find rampant corruption everywhere.
The politicians are up to their eyeballs in corruption, bribes, kickbacks, blackmail, etc.
Business leaders are very corrupt, as are unions, and the professionals in finance an’ law. Energy is hopelessly embroiled in corruption…the White House, Congress, and the Judiciary are all brimming over with self-serving corruption, lies, an’ criminal manipulation. Congress is a sideshow.
Almost universal in all of this is the assumption that the public is a herd of fools who’ll swallow anything…The last election is a good example of this playing out. Josef Goebbels – Hitler’s Minister of Misinformation in the Nazi Third Reich has been credited as having said that ‘if a lie is told loudly enough an’ long enough – it becomes the truth.’
I was not happy with the election nor with the re-election of Obama…his racial heritage is really not the problem…his cultural upbringing an’ Marxist/socialist indoctrination IS a problem, as those political philosophies are clearly an’ diametrically opposed to the American way of life an’ American individual freedoms, as well as making him opposed to the economic capitalism which has made this nation great. Obama is anti-business, anti-capitalism, pro-socialism, pro-Islam, an’ radically leftist…
Obama is tearing down our nation…
He now has four more years as “Lord Ears” to finish the systematic destruction of America that he began in 2009.
AgentSmith101 said, 4 months ago
I’m against gun control, but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I despise lobbyists.
If enough people in a grassroots effort want to support an issue, fine. Otherwise, getting a professional group together stacks the deck one way or the other and is superfluous bloat.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago
@Bruce4671
I don’t engage with you anymore. Because you are intellectually dishonest.
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Please keep for future reference
Radish
said, 4 months ago
Boehner, lord cry baby, was photographed passing out tobacco lobby bribes on the senate floor.
DrCanuck said, 4 months ago
@Mr. King
That Jon Stewart bit was terrifying. Showed how many Americans simply believe what they are told to believe and do what they are told to do, with no independent thought at all.
Just like JoeCool’s rant against Obama above; NONE of which is true. Yet he believes it because others have told him to believe it.
M Ster said, 4 months ago
JoeCool, regarding Obama’s "Marxist/socialist indoctrination…opposed to the economic capitalism…is anti-business, anti-capitalism, pro-socialism…
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Seems like you want to take Darwinism to the extreme, and that you want goverment to do the same.
Jim Guess said, 4 months ago
Has ANYONE on the left EVER read the Constitution? Has ANYONE on the left EVER read the Second Amendment?
Obviously, Luckovich has not … or refuses to accept it.
Wait until some lowlife breaks into HIS home, robs him, rapes his wife, and beats him senseless. THEN, what will Mike wish he had in the home and training how to use it before that thug broke in???
A GUN, stupid! A GUN!