Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 31, 2015

No need to wonder about the cartoonist’s political persuasion.

Enjoyed the brother, who can only be bothered to look up from his smartphone when he gets shot.

Today I learned “the people” does not equal “individual”. :P

So how are we supposed to effectively defend ourselves against criminals (who did NOT get their guns legally)? Trust the police, who sometimes take 5-10 minutes to show up? Yeah, try telling the “Black Lives Matter” crowd that only cops or soldiers should have guns.

http://www.cfr.org/society-and-culture/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons/p29735

“And what about that ‘well-regulated’ part?”“Gun control means hitting what I aim at.”

SCOTUS ruled its does guarantee an individual right.

Everyone focuses on the words ‘militia’, and ‘well-regulated’. No one discusses the word ‘infringe.’ That word carries a tacit sense of wrongfulness. Are a reasonable set of laws and regulations on gun ownership and use an ‘infringement’, any more than laws against libel and slander are ‘infringements’ of the First Amendment? I am not sure that one could argue that they are.

…. this cartoon has it exactly right….people are willing to sacrifice their children to the love of their guns, but not to their love of God.Guns don’t kill people, but the love of guns over human lives…I.e.refusing to even consider laws to hinder guns from getting into maniac’s hands is sacrilegious to gun ownership:it blames the gun by suggesting the madmen are not at fault.If your faith in Jesus is willing to let yourself die for him,but you will take a gun up to protect your children, then you are saying that the gun is your saviour and protector : blasphemy!Jesus is

my gun! Repent you sinners! Put your golden calves away and trust in the Lord! Pick whatever God you want to but as for my house we choose the Lord!….

@tmoverbeckYou are exactly right! Because in a dark theater an armed citizen would be able to pick off the shooter with out hitting any bystanders without being shot themselves. And once the Police did arrive, they would know right away who the bad guy was and who the Hero was.

From the Dred Scott decision:Were blacks to be considered citizens — with all the rights a citizen should expect — the Court enumerated what those right would include:

“It would give to persons of the Negro race, … the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, … the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”

I guess Bolling considers it OK for the government to label us al ‘Dred Scotts’ to confiscate our means to fight tyranny.

Every child killed by a gun is proof that we should all have guns. It couldn’t be plainer.

PS. As the cartoon shows, guns are also a good way to take care of your obnoxious offspring.

I don’t get it.

As with so many questions, I don’t have all the answers, but I know one thing for sure. “Follow the Money!” Exactly who is profiting from the unbelievable sales of guns in our country? Who? Ask yourself. Figure it out. I live out in the country. I figure that almost 100% of my neighbors and I, are armed. At times the sound of target practice comes literally from every point of the compass. The Lafayette shooter had been INVOLUNTARILY committed. He should never have been able to buy a firearm, legally. This weak as water system is not working, and we the people had better get a handle on things or they really will be coming for our guns! And make no mistake about it, if they want ‘em, they’ll take ’em. BTW, I personally am a far leftie. Your politics in general have little to do with this issue.

You lost me on this one Ruben.

There was no standing army at the time of the writing of the Bill of Rights. The need for a militia was based on the expectation that England may return to take back the colonies. Thus, the need for the law to enable the public to act as an army.

Further, those have been actions in countries other than the U.S. Were they done here, the result might be less sanguine (and more sanguinary) for the ‘common man’. And merely not dying is not the same as succeeding.

The people with a 5 on their clothes are a lot quieter, and James Duane is their high priest.

Should we prevent rogue nations from having nuclear weapons? Countries have always found ways to kill without them.

Meanwhile: For every crime stopped by a civilian with a gun, multiple people are shot accidentally.

The upper bound for defensive gun use annually in the US is 70,000 (Hemenway 2015) and it is generally ineffective. Note that that is almost certainly a vast overestimate, with more reasonable numbers being on the order of 5000 or less1. (Cue someone pointing to the long-debunked Kleck survey.)

1 Using survey data to measure low-probability events is very vulnerable to false positives.

So many NRA loyalists! Such ardent believers! And such commitment to the cause: you’d sacrifice other people’s right to the pursuit of happiness out of fealty to a narrow reading of the 2nd Amendment! Oh, did I write “sacrifice?” I meant “kill.” Since no one can even suggest we try to do something to decrease the numbers of Americans shot (i.e. close the trade show background check loophole) we are left with no other choice but to build cemeteries and mausoleums in honor of the NRA. By golly, they’ve earned their temples of death! Yee-fucking-haw!!