M2Bulls by Marty Two Bulls Sr. for May 12, 2019

Far far more that a caring, sensible, reasonable populace would or should allow. Isn’t it a shame that you even have to ask the question?

I wish gocomics would put a tear drop symbol for this kind of message. A like doesn’t seem appropriate.

…how many more unhinged people with guns are out there?

Red rain is coming down

Red rain

Red rain is pouring down

Pouring down all over kids

They are standing at the water’s edge in their dreams

They cannot make a single sound as she screams

It can’t be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch

Hey, bullet’s touch

This place is so quiet, sensing that storm

Red rain is coming down

Red rain

Red rain is pouring down

Pouring down all over them

Well it’s been buried in a sheltered place in this town

They tell you that this rain can sting and look down

There is no blood around, see no sign of pain

Hey, no pain

Seeing no red at all, see no rain

Red rain is coming down

Red rain

Red rain is pouring down

Pouring down all over them

Red rain

Oh! Oh!

Putting the pressure on much harder now

To return again and again

Red rain

Just let the red rain splash you

Let the rain fall on your skin

Red rain

You came to school, defenses down

With the trust of a child

Oh!

Red rain coming down

Red rain

Red rain is pouring down

Pouring down all over them

And we can’t hide any more

No more denial

It’s so hard to lay down in all of this

Red rain coming down

Red rain is pouring down

Red rain is coming down all over them

We see it

Red rain coming down

Red rain is pouring down

Red rain is coming down all over them

We’re bathing in

Red rain coming down

Red rain is coming down

Red rain is coming down all over them

She’s begging you

Red rain coming down

Red rain coming down

Over them in a red, red sea

Over kids

Over kids

Red rain

Peter Gabriel – used without permission

“There’s nothing we can do” say the only country where this ever happens.

As long as the NRA is taking foreign money, and money from gun manufacturers, and using it to buy members of "Con"gress, it will never change!

When the incidental lip service given to protecting children in the U.S. becomes more of a priority than the fake blanket of the 2nd Amendment plus the profits being accrued by those making/selling guns and ammo. In other words, not for a very long time.

Republicans get bribes from the NRA, they will do nothing to stop school murders since they let the ban on semi automatic weapons die.

People need to stop voting for Republicans if they want any change.

Marty, this is beautifully done. I wish it weren’t so true, but you nailed it. The people who are allowing this to happen are the same people who are (and have always been) engineering the betrayal of everyone who isn’t like them and enabling the rape and murder of the planet. I wish it weren’t so true.

Republicans are furious over the children who die from abortion but silent about the children who die from guns

It would be nice to know. Unfortunately, the National Rifle Association’s lobbying efforts have effectively blocked any attempts at getting a grasp on numbers.

Collateral damage folk.. the price you are willing to pay for the daft interpretation of the 2nd amendment. Asking how many children must die.. sadly, lots.

The government’s extremely clear answer to the question is:

“Yawwwwwnnnnnn. Whatev.”

2nd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I FULLY support the 2nd Amendment. ALL OF IT.

A ‘militia’ includes all able-bodied civilians.

WELL REGULATED.

Forget the unreasonable NRA, what part of ‘well regulated’ eludes lawmakers and the courts? Background checks, paid for by the applicant – not tax dollars. Age and health restrictions. Severe penalties for violations.

And I’d think there are more that can be done to preserve our right to bear arms while preserving our rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’.

We’re not stupid. We can do both.

Since it seems we can’t stop this sort of thing, I will hope and pray that the next batch are children and grandchildren of NRA and GOP ammosexuals. Maybe that will get them thinking.

At the rate we seem to be going (slightly hyperbolic, I know), there won’t be left a single little child to lead them.

The Second Amendment says that the Feds cannot disarm state militias, whose primary functions were catching slaves and fighting Native Americans. Well, there was the Whiskey Rebellion, where President Washington Federalized the Pennsylvania militia and rode out at their head to put it down, the only sitting President ever to take the field in prospective combat. (The rebels melted away into the hills, so there was in fact no shooting.)

We no longer have such state militias. We have the various state National Guards for the common defense. If you qualify, you can go and BEAR arms up to and including tanks and fighter jets, and KEEP them at National Guard armories and airfields.

Well done, Marty; sadly so.

“How many times must the cannon balls fly, before too many people have died?”

For those who think that the idea of school shootings is a recent tragedy of American life, I’d remind people of the 1984 movie ‘Johnny Dangerously’. Joe Piscopo’s character, Danny Vermin, showed his .88 Magnum and his line was “It shoots through schools.” Humor, 1980s style. We’ve had sick people here for a long time. You’d think we would have solved the issue by now.

What has our world come to now. Why are people this way, acting like everything is fine and that kids arent dying young?