Mike Lester for September 03, 2019

Lester, are you forgetting “Thoughts & Prayers?”

If you’re going for accuracy, the ref should have been paid off by the NRA to look the other way.

Criminal = Inaction

- Assault weapon ban was effective until he was taken out of the game prematurely.Lester, what do you suggest?

No it’s easy. All we have to do is figure out who is going to commit murder before he does so and then take away his guns.

Reclassify them! If you can pass a class III background check own all you want.

I don’t get it… Is Lester actually saying he’s for the laws on the players on the right!? That would make ME we stars!

In Mike Lester’s hand, a cartoonist’s pen is an assault weapon against the truth.

While it’s true that statisticians differ as to the effects of red flag laws, assault weapons bans, etc., there’s no dispute that since the assault weapons ban expired, mass shootings have skyrocketed. In the last five years under the ban, the U.S. averaged less than one mass shooting per year, with a total 5-year death toll of 21. Since the ban expired, the rate has increased nearly fivefold, and in most years the annual death toll has exceeded that five-year total. In every year since the ban expired, the annual death toll has been greater than in any of the five years preceding its expiration.

In America, Fireworks are Illegal because you might hurt yourself. But a weapon that gives you the ability to Fire 41 rounds, Kill 9 people, wound 14, and injure 37 others in 30 seconds, that is granted immunity by the NRA, God himself, the Texas Legislature and apparently Mike Lester.

In America we restrict Shotguns for hunting to Three rounds to give the wildlife a chance. I guess people do not deserve such consideration.

Very accurate cartoon. All those laws were killed by the gun obsessed and the NRA.

It’s good to remember that even collecting data on gun violence by the government is exactly the same as total confiscation of all guns — except criminals’, of course.

I’ll give Lester the benefit of the doubt here and assume he’s commenting on the ineffectiveness of the various measures that have been tried, not blaming liberals for having tried them. But he’s wrong in two ways. First: it’s not exactly “criminals” who have been the most recent problem, it’s angry white males. (Yeah, what they do is criminal, but mostly they aren’t career criminals: They’re whack jobs.) And second: it turns out that some of the palliative measures do have good effect, particularly the ban on assault weapons that was allowed to expire in 2004. That no such ban has been reinstated says more about (dirty-money) politics than about whether it had some good effect. Also effective: Simply enforcing a modest waiting period between when you tell a seller you want to buy and when you may pick up the weapon. Particularly effective if that waiting period is used to do a full and effective background check. NYC, for instance saw an immediate drop in gun homicides when it instituted such a measure, despite being only a few minutes from New Jersey which did not.

If laws don’t work, then what’s the purpose in them? Abolish speed limits, stop lights, robberies, assaults, muggings, murders, etc. After all, criminals just ignore them, so what’s the use?

Well, at least Mr. Lester’s cartoon accurately depicts how effective such laws are at curbing mass shooters and gun violence. ;-)

Since the assault weapons ban, flawed though it was thanks to the NRA, expired in 2004 mass shootings are way up. Your point truth M`Lester?