Steve Kelley for February 27, 2018

That’s right Mr. Kelly, removing guns will not stop people from just throwing the bullets at people.

Yes, Mr. Kelly, your special fork that was specifically designed and has no other purpose but to motivate and facilitate you in killing 17 people in less that 4 minutes should be banned. Or do you really think that having that fork you feed yourself is actually more important than foregoing the death and destruction it was intended for?

Grasping at straws doesn’t help your reasoning. As a matter of fact ‘it sucks’.

Great analogy. So straight-forward, I see a lot of people missed the point (or willing not to see it).

Kelley has just quit trying.

Just think of all the people Cruz would have killed with a fork!

Boycott the NRA, ban the AR-15, stop voting for gun extremists.

All the armed cops and guards were like, “We can’t go in there, he’s armed with a fork!”

Mr Kelly, fork off. Completely studpid annalogy. If you had a semi-automatic fork that was accurate at 200 yards and could file 30 mouthfulls without reloading, then you’d be getting somewhere.

It’s been proven that using a smaller plate allows you to lose weight, so regulating tableware works. Mr. Kelly ignores the first 3 words of the second amendment. ’A well regulated……."

45 calls to the police (including reports of amassing weaponry and threats to shoot up a school, nothing done. Two tips to the FBI (after threatening to shoot up a school), nothing done. Years of concern by the schools, nothing done.

The firearm was the implement used by a troubled person that the almighty system pushed by the left as being the cure to all of society’s ills failed to do anything about. Yup, the firearm is the only problem worth addressing here.

Nice try

Let’s start with real universal back ground checks. Right now about half of gun sales are not checked at all. I would really like to see a magazine limit if there were an effective and practical way to do it. You don’t need fifty bullets to go hunting or target shooting.

I had to shoot him, he came at me with a fork!

Forking yourself is OK, forking a lot of innocent kids requires some collective action. If you can’t be trusted not to hurt OTHER PEOPLE with your fork maybe you should be restricted to a plastic spoon. Critical thinking is tough for this guy.

A fork would not be able to kill so many people that quickly.

Nice to see that Masters Degree in False Equivalency coming in handy!

With this illogic, it seems that Kelley treats the problem of “mass shooting” in this country in a rather trivial manner.

Wrong analogy – in your funny toon, the fork would have killed 17 children instead of feeding them. Would you still think the fork should be used after it killed and maimed children? Or do you think we should take such a fork off the shelves? We took away lawn darts for much less… We make motorcyclists wear helmets and drivers be sober and wear seat belts. You can’t smoke in public buildings anymore. Why do we still allow assault rifles to kill our children? This IS a gun issue. No matter how many times you stomp your feet.

It was not the fork.. but the easy availability of the food.. Ration the food and even with 6 forks you would not have gained weight. Why, take the food away altogether and even with 30 forks you would still starve.

But what if he was actually holding a spork?

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Texas police shoot man who disarmed possible church shooter …

https://www.chron.com/…/Texas-police-shoot-man-who-disarmed-possible-12704202…

4 days ago – Police in Amarillo shot an innocent man who helped foil a possible church shooting. The shooting happened shortly after 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at the Faith City Mission, a faith-based outreach organization.

The lengths to which the anti-gun folks will go to hide from basic reality is amazing.

It is time for some enlightenment. Not from the NRA, not from a right wing advocacy group, but from of all places, Wikipedia. They have a page with rampage killings listed from around the world. You will be stunned at how widely spread they are. Stunned at the range of weapons used.

Stunned by the fact that this is NOT a uniquely American problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers

Since we are on the topic of school massacres, you can peruse a special page devoted that topic. Where you will find that only 35% of school rampages took place in the US. That 40% involved the use of weapons other than firearms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers_(school_massacres)

When it’s a nationally serious problem that we need to solve, using false equivalency arguments is not going to solve anything. Pay attention Mr Kelly!! You have the power to make a difference and help save our children’s lives. Why are you using that power to try to ensure that lawmakers do nothing because you think nothing is going to help?

Exactly right Mr. Kelly. We don’t need to ban guns; we need to ban gun owners.

Exactly right Mr. Kelly. We don’t need to ban guns; we need to ban gun owners.

How many other innocent people did I make overweight because of my fork? Did I force feed anyone else? Did I shovel food from my plate to theirs with my fork? Or was what I did solely directed at myself? Not sure I see your point here, Steverino.

Kelly, like all Trump Disciples can see NO way to reduce gun violence without total confiscation of all guns.

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BTW, Kelly, it’s been shown that eating with chopsticks, by itself, will help you lose weight. (I know that’s confusing, sorry.)

yes, gun deaths are mostly suicides but if we were only talking about suicides (the only way your fork comparison is even remotely sane), then we probably wouldn’t be having such a strong push to ban guns. it is because people are using guns to kill other people – in particularly, kids.And continuing with your patently moronic fork analogy, if the guns were only making people overweight, then we probably wouldn’t be as concerned either.

BTW: no-one is advocating banning ALL guns. Certainly no politician with any sense. The argument’s a straw man.

Too many have bought into the NRA’s fallacious argument on the first amendment. It is not as broad as they make it out to be. They completely omit the reason it was included in the Constitution. It was to assure that a militia could be called quickly. Early battles in the Revolution and probably the War of 1812 were fought by guys who brought their own guns – which were single shot muskets. And the founders had no idea of modern gunnery. I doubt strongly that, were they writing the amendment today, they would even hint at it being open ended.

Mr Kelley, perhaps you could explain why common sense fire arm legislation that has eliminated mass shooting in every other industrialized society on the planet wouldn’t work here in America.

For this comic to work, the guy needs to be using a gigantic fork to force feed kids in classrooms until they explode.

Much of the world does not use forks for eating so banning forks would do very little to prevent uninhibited caloric intake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChopsticksMost people do not buy a fork for “protection” which most people claim their gun is to be used for. I find this a poor analogy. A fork or any eating implement is a passive human powered object not a mechanism like a car or a gun. Cars and guns are mechanisms that use a leveraging pedal or trigger to (hopefully) control an explosive force to propel a piston or bullet which exerts far greater force than a human powered projectile could exert … a human powered vehicle cannot speed past a car nor can a human throw a projectile at the speed of a bullet. There should be instruction for the controlled use, storage (cars can roll if not in park and loaded guns can discharge if dropped) and maintenance of mechanisms to avoid accidents. There are long established precedents of licensing and regulations to preemptively deter irresponsible people from misusing these mechanisms and at least for cars, laws confiscating them from irresponsible people using them improperly . While bats and knives are manual, human powered passive devices they too can be used as weapons though they are widely used for sports, hobbies and at work.

despicable…

You can use a fork to eat a salad. A gun really only has one use.

What would be wrong with a national gun registry?

Good God this is stupid.

Fork or AR-15, as long as you are only using it on yourself I am fine with it.

Can we all agree that pitchforks should be banned? They can be very dangerous.

The mind boggles to see the number of people so thoroughly lacking in imagination and so completely obtuse. One must wonder how deliberate that is…

Show me one instance where “misusing the fork” hurts anybody but the person who is overweight? If multipole other people were killed because an individual chose to misuse a fork, yes it would be banned.