Tom Toles for January 28, 2019

The “Thoughts and Prayers” is wicked honesty.Well done Mr T.

No more “thoughts and prayers” unless you think they are so effective you can put them on the southern border in lieu of one of those godless fences.

NO MORE! Time to STOP sacrificing our children on the blood-stained altar of NRA (domestic terrorist organization and illegal Russian money laundering criminal syndicate) and gun manufacturer profits.

Have Americans become so numb to the firearm holocaust that mass murders, unknown in the rest of the civilized world, have become acceptable as the price we pay for insecure, impotent little losers trying to compensate for their other inadequacies?

That silencer is NRA branded.

It’s hard to prevent incessant insanity from becoming normal.

Sandy Hook was the US’s moral test similar to that which had faced the UK and Australia. That it unlike them utterly failed is an indicator of how much the US is failing as a democracy and as a commonwealth.

I don’t see America’s fixation with guns going away anytime soon. Perhaps becoming numb and going into denial in the face of all this horror is a merciful defense mechanism. If you choose to be deaf, you wouldn’t hear a tree falling in the forest even if you are standing right next to it. The trees are probably just paid actors anyway.

“I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm a Supreme Court nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association.” — Sen. Mitch McConnell, Fox News Sunday, March 20, 2016

I can imagine America without machine guns in every street. I can vote to make my imagination come true, too.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/gun-lobbying-spending-in-america-congress/

You have to have more than a dozen to even make the headlines now. The 5 in LA was no big deal. Nothing special about Americans being killed.

Why, yes, it leaves a sound, the sound of Congress People saying: “Thoughts and prayers”. But, that’s it.

Instead of MAGA, perhaps the slogan should be MAAA (Make American Armed Again). Ah, the good old days of Tombstone and Dodge City.

This is the NRA’s DREAM!!!

DEATH!! CARNAGE!!! MORE PROFITS FOR GUN MAKERS!!! BIGGER CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS!!!

But what about the zygotes?

Republicans do nothing about the mass murder of children in this country.

But what can you expect from a political party that locks up 15,000 children?

There are actions which could be taken to make schools safer from intruders. I would like to see this begin, though I know it won’t solve all mass shootings. Gun violence will have to be treated like cancer, with many different remedies.

I’m so old, I remember when US flags were at full-mast for years on end.

If another illegal crosses the border does anyone care?

Too bad for the cartoon that the shootings weren’t actually done with a Scary Black Rifle. It’s harder to get people worked up over a deer rifle or a hunting shotgun.

The NRA took 30 million from Russia and illegally gave it to Trump.

The NRA’s Russian spy, who is in prison, consorted with top Republicans and anyone can see their pictures on the net.

Is there no justice in this country anymore?

When are these people going to be charged with their outrages crimes?

If you want to buy a gun to protect yourself, just use “thoughts and prayers.”

I stopped asking that question after Sandy Hook.

I really don’t give a shit anymore about them. They kill, what, 200 people a year?