Jules Feiffer has described Tony Auth best, "His perspective is that of a bemused and often angry comic historian. Irony, never a favorite form with Americans, is his meat and potatoes. He is not smug, and though he can be mean, he is never mean-spirited. Auth is a moralist and an optimist. He insists, even in this day and age, that hope is more than the name of a right-wing comedian or the shtick of a reactionary president."
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Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
Hey, us at GoComics are puttin in a good days tannin’ on yer hyde too!
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
@Dredpiraterobt$
Hyde, as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr
-- ?Maybe a typo, but a VERY effective one!
Radish
said, 5 months ago
There are no secrets anymore.
Rottiluv
said, 5 months ago
The NRA completely lost my support when they supported Romney over Obama. Shows that they really are nothing more than a GOP front.
jnik23260 said, 5 months ago
We’re not afraid of you anymore. And hopefully neither is Congress!
DrCanuck said, 5 months ago
NRA’s new motto: “We don’t care HOW many children die; we’re keepin’ our guns.”
AshburnStadium said, 5 months ago
The NRA had just celebrated a new milestone regarding the number of “likes” on its Facebook page just before the Sandy Hook massacre. Its Facebook page has since been pulled down. I hope that the NRA can be toppled as well.
Baleine said, 5 months ago
@jnik23260
The only thing Congress is afraid of is losing campaign contributions.
Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago
Liberals new motto: Nothing is low enough to say after next week.
ARodney said, 5 months ago
Ima, anything in particular you’re calling “low” here? I’m curious what among the above statements you consider beneath human dignity. That people should be allowed to live? I can see why that would bother you.
onguard said, 5 months ago
the Dem Libs masters put the word out…..Never let a Crisis, real or imagined, go to waste, just push your agenda. The MSM is with you.
sw10mm said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
How many have been killed by other means, and yet you’re mysteriously silent about those.
Doughfoot said, 5 months ago
Actually the vast majority of homicides in this country are committed with firearms.
There are 80,000,000 gun owners in the U.S. (though the number declines each year), and 300,000,000 privately owned guns. Now that is not going to change any time soon. What is astonishing is that so many people think that 80,000,000 and 300,000,000 are not enough, and we need A LOT MORE to keep us safe and free.
The other thing I think astonishing is that so many folks think making it as difficult to buy a gun as it is to adopt a puppy is denying them the right to defend themselves. That say the same about regulating gun as much as we regulate automobiles is similarly in violation of their rights!
The vast majority of gun owners are perfectly decent people who would never use their guns in a way to endanger others except in necessary self-defense. Nearly everyone agrees that lunatics and criminals ought to be disarmed. And yet what measures to accomplish those purposes does the NRA support? A law that would prevent me from selling my gun to your teenage son in complete ignorance of his psychological state? A law that would forbid you to keep your gun lying around loose when your son has been diagnosed with emotional problems?
A law (like the seatbelt law, or the motorcycle helmet law) that requires gun owners to keep their guns locked up when not actually in use might have prevented Lanza from accessing his mother’s gun collection. Might not, but we’ll never know now.
Gun control does not necessarily mean disarming people any more than requiring people to register, insure, and be licensed to drive, their cars denies people the right to move about freely.
“Paranoia strikes deep” on this issue, on both sides, but I only hear one side saying “nothing more can be done to improve this situation” 30,000 dead a year (one out of every thousand Americans) by the gun is just the price you pay for liberty. Even leaving out the accidents and the suicides, the figure is still 10,000 a year. A law that reduces the number of homicides by 1% saves a hundred lives a year.
A neighbor of ours killed his son-in-law. The two got into an argument over dinner. Nobody thinks Dad could have grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Son to death, though he might have driven him out of the house or socked him on the nose. But Dad had a loaded gun in his desk, and in his rage pointed it at the Son, and in a moment of blindness pulled the trigger. He was horrified instantly and called the police and an ambulance and made no bones about what he had done. All too late. Son died because a deadly weapon was on hand at the wrong moment. I didn’t make this up.
Guns may be useful instruments of self-defense, but they can also be deadly temptations. They can prevent violence, or provoke it. They are neither good nor evil. But they are dangerous and should be treated with seriousness and respect. Why should not the law require gun owners to all behave as the wisest and most responsible gun owners do?
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago
@Doughfoot
“They are neither good nor evil.”
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They don’t kill people, people kill people…
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They’re the same thought.
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Guns are the tools of evil. At least Judeo Christian defined Evil, add Muslim in that they go by the OT too. The 10 Commandments Thou shalt not kill (I don’t remember what number it is it’s after God does His praise Me! routine, it’s the first Thou Shalt, I think)
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Jesus said “Turn the other cheek”
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Killing is evil in the eyes of at least the three middle eastern religions.
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The gun is a product with but one intent. To kill. Maybe I’ll just kill you in the knee cap, but that knee cap is a gonner for good!
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The gun is a tool of EVIL. Even if the evil is the lesser of two evils, it’s still evil.
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The gun is temptation to kill. When you shoot a bow and arrow, or hurl a dart what are you hitting? When you go to the shooting range, what is the target (often)?
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As your tragic story relates, the temptation is there. It’s the Means, just waiting for you to have the motive and it will create the opportunity!
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Guns are at least part of evil.
MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago
They are waiting. They are waiting for some stupid Liberal, preferably the President, to go on TV and demand – with a frothy mouth – for all guns to be taken away. THEN they can pounce back with “Second Amendment” and “From my cold dead fingers”. But not this time. The guy in the Oval Office plays Vulcan 3D-chess against Spock every night and WINS…
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Faux News reported today that the sale of Bushmasters and AR-15 has gone up steeply since the mass murder. What kind of person do you have to be to buy one now? What kind of person do you have to be to SELL one now? Walmart got the message early, they removed a lot of semi-autos from their stores and one other dealer-chain with 400 dealers did the same. I applaud these moves! Sensible, I repeat, SENSIBLE gun-control (aka “gun safety”) is needed now and I hope it will happen, rather sooner than later. If Obama has to attend one more vigil he will loose his shit and there won’t be any translation necessary…