Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 15, 2010

Death to horseflies!

I hope Dad’s not a member of the NRA.

Calvin, you meant well, I’ll give you that!!!

She would rather have the horse-fly, I think.

Reminds me of a joke in ‘Three Men in a Boat’ where George plays his banjo to soothe Harris off his headache and Harris says he would rather have the headache.

Another William Tell in the making.

Target practicing on the back of your Mom’s head, good one Calvin! I shot mine on the butt with one of those guns when she was bending over in the laundy basket, hanging clothes on the clothesline. She chased me around the yard a few times. She got me back good as I remember but the details are fuzzy, It might have been with the sink sprayer which she nailed me with a couple times but I remember it being something more thought out.

Dart gun: for all your killing stuff needs.

I get shot almost every time I go over to my brother’s. But I get even, I give them hugs, kisses and forehead licks.

Duck, Mom!

G’Morning, Mike, Marg & Grog!

Mom, you should buy this gun for Calvin: http://www.ausgefallenesachen.com/wp-content/images/flygun.jpg

Hmm.. the savior has become the pest in sought to destroy. Don’t think there’s a big enough shoe for that one :P

Do you feel lucky, Calvin?

Good Morning, C&H fans.

She’s just lucky he didn’t try to swat it with a spade.

I had one of those, Tineli! They work great, but you need a string attached to it for retrieval. I wonder if they still sell them? The kids wore mine out.

Calvin’s little lesson here is to always have your weapon handy.

Here he comes to save the day.

Sandfan… that is so true! There’s a reason that I conceal carry! You never know when you might need it!

We used to pull the suction cup of the plastic rod so it would sting more when we shot at each other. They would also fly faster and farther as the dart would encounter less air resistance! It’s surprising Calvin hasn’t discovered that yet.

When someone slaps a bug on you, ever wonder,”Was it there?”

Ha the fly probably saw Calvin coming.

LOL, Whenever my kids start screaming about a bug, I always go grab an airsoft BB gun…

Guess I haven’t gotten rid of my youthful calvin-ness entirely.

LeslieAnne, Have you ever needed it?

Puddleglum2… Thank God no! But there was a time before I was able to get it that I wished I had it…

Calvin darts away to his room to get his dart gun and darts right back to rescue Mom from the horsefly. Now she wants him to dart away again. So dart away, Calvin! It’s a good thing Calvin had cleaned his room several weeks ago or he probably wouldn’t have found the dart gun..

LeslieAnne, You leave us in suspense… I hope you didn’t get threatened, or even worse, mugged!

Ahh Ma he was only trying to help!

If only MOM will cooperate .

Dart guns are very useful in so many situations–and funny!

Having to continuously flag spam in my favorite comic is a real bummer.

:-(

LeslieAnne: A close cousin of mine was recently robbed at gunpoint. That place is a little sketchy anyhow so why she and her friends were there playing frisbee golf at 12:30 a.m. in the first place, I can’t begin to imagine! She was in a group of 6 (maybe they thought it would be reasonably safer that way?) and I guess when you’re 21-22 years old, bad things like that only happen to other people (what a way to have your eyes opened to the fact that that’s completely not true these days!). But you can better believe that if my husband and I had been in that same area of town for any reason (even in broad daylight!), both of us would have been packing our guns for protection … just in case. (And yes, we both have a concealed carry permit.)

Puddleglum2… sorry for the suspense… It was my birthday, and I had stopped to get some pizza on the way home from work. I had had a crappy day and so I was going to go home and take a bubble bath and read while eating some pizza, but I digress. When I came out of the pizza place I started to drive my car and realized I had a flat tire. My phone was dead, and I was in a sketchy part of town. But I being the country girl that I am, proceed to change my tire. Well a guy kept driving by me and staring at me in the parking lot, which creeped me out. Thank God there were some other people around me, or I don’t know what could have happened. Then he proceeds to follow me home. I quickly parked and ran into my house. he then tried to break into my house. It was awful. I was still sitting in the middle of my living room shaking when my roommate got home. Thank God nothing actually happened, but when I told my dad about it, he said, you are getting your permit, and I’m getting you a Saturday Night Special. And so that’s how that happened.

GretchensMom… Yeah I pack pretty much every where that I can!

LeslieAnne & GretchensMom - I see I’m not the only female here who has a CCL and carries regularly.

What an incredibly sad commentary on the state of our country that folks have to go around armed. When I was a kid no one even thought about something like that. Wonder if the “no guns allowed” policies in Canada and Austrailia have been as successful as orginally touted and hoped in terms of reducing “gun” crimes such as armed robbery and murder. Anybody know? My dad worked for Field & Stream, so we were very conversant with firearms, needless to say….

Please, ladies! NEVER go home if you notice someone is following you. Even if they do nothing right away, they know where you live and can watch you and your property until a convenient time to carry out their schemes. Even if you own/carry a gun, avoiding the problem is the best thing to do.

Back on topic, I HATE horseflies.

Why the heck is Calvin’s mom afraid of a toy dart gun?

Rachel17: Ever get hit by one?

With Mom’s luck, Calvin’s will have the recoil of a rifle - or a braking Mack truck.

i’m sure that’s just a water gun

Its illegal for us to own or carry a pistol in Canada but I can see why mom is so nervous about Calvin holding a gun of any kind ,pointing at her.

Runs with Beer: We have one of these fly-guns, I’m quite sure it was a gimmick in the Mickey-Mouse-Magazine, but I don’t know, how old it is.

@ khpage… Gun control works wonderfully in other countries. Criminals LOVE unarmed victims.

Here’s the way I look at it… The ONLY people that you are harming by making stricter gun control laws are the law abiding citizens that OBEY THE LAWS… CRIMINALS DON’T!!!!!

i said to my freinds that there was a mosqito on there cheek then i just slapped them