Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 27, 2011
January 26, 2011
January 28, 2011
Transcript:
Roland: Congressman Heath Shuler, locked and loaded! We're now walking into a town hall meeting... Voice: Roland, can you describe the crowd? Roland: It looks like a well-regulated militia, Brian... one constituent has his pockets stuffed with high-capacity clips, another has pistols on both hips. A third is fondling a Glock. Voice: Wow... sounds safe, Roland! Mike: Really safe. I doubt we'll see any monkey business here!
In spite of what you read in the funny papers, you really don’t see many, if any, scenes like this. Most gun owners are a bit more discrete.
@BrianCook, if the legal system had done its job, Jared Loughner would have already been red flagged because of the threats he’d made. He’d already been kicked out of the community college because they felt he was mentally unstable and dangerous. I agree with you that he never should have been allowed to have access to firearms. Now we have the anti-gun crowd trying to come up with new laws when they didn’t even follow the existing ones.