Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1993, Steve Benson has been a lightning rod for more than 20 years as the staff editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson sums up his career best: "I don’t aim to please. I just aim."
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sw10mm said, 4 months ago
No one says anything good about the san antonio shooter two days after the ct shooting. Maybe because he was shot before he could do any damage.
wcorvi said, 4 months ago
@sw10mm
Yea, and no one says anything about the 300 million americans who never shoot ANYONE because they know about all them guns out there.
Alan Legath
said, 4 months ago
Another loser who thinks it’s better for innocent people to be victims. Gun free zones are the most dangerous places in Amerika.Funny how the 20 schoolchildern killed by a knife weilding maniac in China the same week wasn’t big news.
moderateisntleft said, 4 months ago
@Alan Legath
uhm, 20 school children WOUNDED in China. Maybe that would help you to see the difference? Folks like you would prefer that they were dead. After all it’s folks like you that made sure Adam Lanza had access to assault weapons.
Chillbilly
said, 4 months ago
Oh goody! Another “conversation” about how guns will/won’t save us, started off by someone who has a pronounced fetish to be known as a pistol.
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No doubt, we’ll learn a lot here.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@sw10mm
No one has said anything good about Lanza either you twit. Or do you take talk of his assault weapon, his carnage and how he forced his way into the school as positive talk? You are one sick and twisted, deragned little person. YOua re starting to show signs of mental illness. Oh well, too bad for us, there’s no way to prevent you from gaining access to guns thanks to the NRA and its never ending quest to eliminate all abrriers to ownership of any type of weapon for any reason suitable for any purpose.
HabaneroBuck said, 4 months ago
The flyers of those planes lack imagination. While Newtown, Aurora, and Tucson are tragedies, the elimination of guns is no guarantee of a safer and more secure society. We can just as easily imagine bequeathing a totalitarian police state to our children with the disarming of the populace. Perhaps not immediately, but it would come.
roverit said, 4 months ago
Criminals in NY city have more guns than law abiding citizens.
Criminals can get their hands on guns easier than law abiding citizens in NY city. Maybe the NRA is not the problem. Seems the Govt. is.
DrCanuck said, 4 months ago
Obviously, there hasn’t been enough slaughtering of children yet for Americans to do anything about it. Apparently a few more are in order.
Prepare for the next. And the next. And the next……
TheTrustedMechanic said, 4 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
How will worker protections and the enforcement of same be more dangerous than the policies of the NRA?
Oh, that;s right, just another ZIT comment disconnected from reality, much less sanity.
ansonia
said, 4 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Yep. Obama knows that he owes big labor big time for the election.
ansonia
said, 4 months ago
@DrCanuck
Yeah, let’s ban mass murders.
Since banning things works so well.
echoraven said, 4 months ago
The airplanes need a swastika. Pay some homage to a modern gun control success.
Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago
I dislike the cartoon for so many reasons.
First – King Kong was a victim. Kidnapped from his island (where, of course, he was a curse to the islanders) and transported to the city as a money making resource.
Second – the airplanes are doing just what LaPierre says need be done to fight "bad guys’. Each of those planes would normally be armed with twin machine guns. They’re using guns to fight against guns. Tho, I see no art depicting bullets being fired. Will the planes just ram Kong?
Third – Kong is using a gun to what? Protect the children in his other hand? If the cartoon is to be accurate and Kong is protecting what he loves, there should be politicians in his hand, not children.
The NRA is not Kong. Gwangi maybe, but not Kong.
Nahh…the NRA is the shark from Jaws. Mindless, hungry, and too dangerous to be allowed to continue in its current form.
Send in Dreyfus and Scheider.
C.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 4 months ago
(announcement: I am the guy that posted yesterday as Dredpiraterobt$, I don’t want anyone thinking I’m engaging in Sock Puppetry. This is my handle, going forward.)
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I’m happy for the attention Steve Benson is focusing on the issue. I, personally, feel we owe it to the memory of those children not to let this issue fade until we have changed the paradigm.
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What disturbs me though is that it re- enforces the idea that this is an “All or none” battle. I prefer a solution that gives gun owners more flexibility while at the same time making the general public safer from those that would/could (even if they never thought they would) create havoc.
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Tech is the answer (not to spam the issue) GPS sensors in all new weapons which disable the weapon in populated areas. The longer the firing distance the farther the black out zone.
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Finger print reader triggers make guns not worth stealing.
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RFID bullets that fail safe the bullet in RF zones.
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(as if you couldn’t tell I’m DPR!)