Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling

Tom the Dancing Bug

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  1. masterskrain

    masterskrain said, 10 months ago

    You know, I’m not sure if I should be really scared that this is SO TRUE, or what??

  2. Christopher Shea

    Christopher Shea said, 10 months ago

    Took me a moment to notice the sniper rifle in the clock tower in the last panel.

  3. packratjohn

    packratjohn said, 10 months ago

    I feel safer already….

  4. TheRealZarthArn

    TheRealZarthArn said, 10 months ago

    I guess the same logic would apply to nuclear weapons. Every country should have them.

  5. jimjammer

    jimjammer said, 10 months ago

    Ban forks. They make people fat.

  6. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @TheRealZarthArn

    N. Korea and Iraq would agree having nukes keeps other more dangerous countries, like the USA an China, from invading or attacking.

  7. aaf709

    aaf709 said, 10 months ago

    Given what happened in Colorado last week I’m surprised this is still up. Broom Hilda’s Wednesday strip was changed. In that one a little girl, who always shouts, said she’s not allowed in theaters because during action/adventure movies people can’t hear the gunshots.

  8. Tommy1733

    Tommy1733 said, 10 months ago

    To me it’s pretty amazing that this was written in 1999, and yet seems so contemporary.

  9. MysteryCat

    MysteryCat said, 10 months ago

    I think this strip was shown Because of the Colorado shootings— not in spite of them.

  10. DocNuke

    DocNuke said, 10 months ago

    @

    Yeah, a maniac wearing body armor with high powered assault rifles facing off against some God-fearin’ NRA member who has spent a lot of time at the range, but who has never been in a real life-or-death situation. I’m thinking maniac still shoots a lot of people and others get caught in the cross fire.

  11. rpstrong

    rpstrong said, 10 months ago

    What’s unfortunate is that the Eddie Eagle program is brought in to this in the first place.

    Eddie Eagle does NOT teach you how to handle a gun, does NOT teach 2nd amendment rights, does NOT encourage the ownership of guns. In fact, it teaches kids to treat guns as though they were snakes: If you find one, don’t touch. Leave the area and tell an adult. If your friend has one, don’t play with it or even stick around – just leave the area and tell an adult.

    The program is intended mostly to eliminate unintended shootings involving kids who don’t receive firearms safety instruction as a matter of course while growing up.

  12. Ellen Gwynne

    Ellen Gwynne said, 10 months ago

    2nd amnd. refers to a militia, not individuals.

  13. mdavis4183

    mdavis4183 said, 10 months ago

    Dear Comrad Eklla:

    See Public Law 109-92 and D.C. v Heller. The right of the PEOPLE – not the muilitia – to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

    Dear Comrad Rueben Bollins:

    As gun ownership in America continues to reach a/ll time hystorical highs, gun related deaths of children have DECREASED.

    http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html

    1998, United States
    Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 1 to 14

    Number of Deaths: 607

    Population:55,717,623

    Rate: 1.09

    2005, United States
    Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 1 to 14

    Number of Deaths:397

    Population: 56,570,807

    Rate: .70

    1998, United States
    Unintentional Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 1 to 14

    No. of Deaths: 121

    Population: 55,717,623

    Rate: .22

    2005, United States
    Unintentional Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 1 to 14

    No. of deaths: 74

    Population: 56,570,807

    Rate: .13

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    1998, United States
    Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 85+

    No. of deaths: 30,682

    Population: 275,854,116

    Rate: 11.12

    2005, United States
    Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 85+

    No. of deaths: 30,684

    Population: 295,895,897

    Rate: 10.37

    1998, United States
    Unintentional Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 85+

    No. of deaths: 865

    Population: 275,854,116

    Rate: .31

    2005, United States
    Unintentional Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 85+

    No. of deaths: 789

    Population: 295,895,897

    Rate: .27

    ======

    1998, United States
    Unintentional Drowning/submersion Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 14

    No of deaths: 1003

    Population: 59,480,432

    Rate: 1.69

    2005, United States
    Unintentional Drowning Deaths and Rates per 100,000
    All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 14

    No. of deaths: 810

    Population: 60,670,417

    Rate: 1.34

  14. Mark

    Mark said, 10 months ago

    Boy, I sure hope you’re getting paid for posts like that. What a crashing bore otherwise.

  15. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    Also Brazil beats us for gun related deaths by a factor of 3. In the USA more people die from self inflicted gunshot wounds then by other means.

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