Bob Gorrell for June 07, 2023

This is cartoonist for “thoughts and prayers”. And I’m frickin’ SICK AND TIRED of hearing that “it’s too soon” or "But the second Amendment or “We need better access to mental health” (we do). The difference between the USA and other nations is just exactly this: The USA has literally insane gun laws. Fix that first, eh?

FYI – the TRUTH is that in the early US, because there was no military or police, every white male was REQUIRED to own a gun so all of them could serve in the “well-regulated militia.” SCOTUS got it wrong about “bearing arms” meaning carrying a gun for self-defense. The common meaning of “bearing arms” then was “serving in the militia.” And many, many places in those days had restrictions on who could carry guns outside that militia, and where.

See USA. 13%.

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Gorrell copy/pastes an RVA logo(Richond, Virginia)

https://github.com/rvacivtech/rva-creates-open-web

and some clipart bullet holes

http://www.clker.com/clipart-739582.html

just to illustrate “a shooting happened in Richmond Virginia”

if you are someone who fights against any action to reduce mass shootings, you don’t get to do cartoons like this when a mass shooting happens.

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 (2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution)

In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court affirmed for the first time that the right belongs to individuals, for self-defense in the home, while also including, as dicta, that the right is not unlimited and does not preclude the existence of certain long-standing prohibitions such as those forbidding “the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill” or restrictions on “the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons” (Wikopedia).

I had to google this but there were numerous results. My best guess is this:

Office of the City Attorney. City Attorney · City Code · Ordinances · File a claim · Our Attorneys. Circuit Court Clerk for the City of Richmond, VA.

Callous Republicans do nothing as gun shots become the leading cause of death among children.

Gorrell and other gun violence advocates celebrate every mass shooting. It makes people afraid and they buy more guns.

Maybe if Repubs would stop stonewalling on common sense, responsible gun legislation and do something to actually do something.

Just like Trickle Down Economics, Thoughts and Prayers don’t work either.

Until someone can come up with a fix for this stupidity, let’s do just this:

Institute an ENORMOUS tax rise on ALL gun and ammunition purchases.

With no possible exceptions ’cept sales to the ACTUAL MILITARY!

Congress can do that, and it doesn’t impact the Second Amendment whatsoever – after all, purchases of guns and ammo are currently taxed, and Congress already knows how to raise taxes. There’s nothing in the Second Amendment that addresses affordablity.

Then the mentally-deficient “little people” can still own their own winkle-enhancers, and feel brave – and relevant – or whatever.

Eventually mass shootings would decrease – but we’ve already tried doing nothing, and that doesn’t work.

And the revenue will serve to lessen the national debt.

Ya eliminate all gun laws

What is RVA?

New Law – You must give up your guns, otherwise you’ll be charged with a felony for merely possessing them. Good guys – “O.K.” Bad guys – “Catch me if you can”. That is why we’ll never go along with it.

To pass common sense gun legislation you would need either a Democratic super majority in Congress, with a Democratic president, or put it to the states in the form of an Amendment to the Constitution. Given that the Republicans are now actively working on two plans to eliminate two-party rule in the United States, arm yourself and be woke (situation awareness) as nothing is going to change.