Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 15, 2018

Ah – ACME Guns Inc. diversified !

Helps with bear attacks.

I predict, the football team will love it, but, the track team will hate it.

That isn’t the same Acme that sells stuff to Wile E. Coyote?

This year the Louisiana legislature passed a law allowing students to wear bulletproof backpacks to schoolhttps://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/04/louisiana_senate_bulletproof_b.html

Sadly, the gun debate is over. It ended after Sandy Hook, when people who mostly call themselves “pro-life” decided that profits for gun manufacturers are more important than the lives and bloodied bodies of FIRST GRADERS. The vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, including members of the NRA, want sensible gun legislation enacted.

But the leaders of the NRA domestic terrorist organization and the politicians they have bought and paid for have decided that their blood-stained gun profits are more important than human lives.

There’d have to be a few kids who wish they’d been wearing those vests in the past. If they are still around to do the wishing, that is.

not sure armor is a bullet proof solution – but there ain’t a silver bullet either!

Been selling the bullet-proof backpacks for some time, gun sales went up faster, and NRA got gun controls – REDUCED! So with Trump ending the fear of losing their toys, they stopped buying ’em. Giving kids body armor will just increase sales of armor-piercing bullets.

Some Libertarians want total freedom of gun ownership. And they want to break everyone else who is against that. To them the killings are the fault of Liberals and those who stooge with them.

What the “Pro-Life” people are really and truly Pro-Birthers. Explains how they can be for state murder aka Capital Punishment and against birth control and any sex not directly related to reproduction. But then they re also Protestants. The Catholic Church is against state murder too. But still wanting to force any woman and girl to become Brood Mares for their Lord not too far away from being a Handmaid.

Kinda funny…… no not “Ha! Ha!”! funny…We haven’t been able to afford our children’s education since the seventies, “Breaking News!” Schools can’t afford text books much less supplementary materials……Now let’s subtract the cost of training teachers to carry, or having 10 swat team members in every school….It won’t effect text book supplies….They already can’t afford them….

This comic is supposed to be a joke, but some (e.g. East Texas, Louisiana …) will actually think it’s a good idea

Wottsa big deal? It ain’t like they are fetuses.

Body armor may be effective in a battlefield, where bullets fly everywhere in a “statistical” way – reducing available targets reduces the probabilities of hitting one.But a school killer AIMS at the target. He has all the time to put the victim kneeling still and shooting in the face. Normal, everyday life is not Iraq, where at a planned time of the planned day you bomb a village and AFTERWARDS you arrive with readied guns and count the bodies with snipers covering the area. We are talking of a classroom where the door opens and some proud USA citizen with his proud USA gun kills some harmless USA students. What’s the use of bullet-proof vests in that case? and can you have a FIRST GRADER wear a bullett proof jacket all the day, every day?

One elementary school gave the graduates bullet resistant panels for their backpacks. Gun nuts don’t give a damn how many die. I say resistant because the good ole AR-15 can go thru them.

Betsy "DeVoid of Brains’ " dream! But if it’s from ACME, it won’t stop a spitball! Just ask Wile E.!

I bet that somewhere that particular ‘solution’ is actually being seriously considered.

Gun control is perfectly safe. It can only be bad when the government falls into the hands of the wrong people, and that can never, ever happen.

“right” whingers, “Arm the teachers!”

Sane people, “The same teachers that you’ve been calling overpaid and incompetent for decades?”

Trumpublicans are turning America into a GOP hole country.

An American tragedy.

On a different note — I always wondered why it was supply and demand and not demand and supply (I didn’t do well in Econ 101) — supply and demand always seemed like it was putting the cart before the horse.

If you voted republican you are responsible for this.

Our family seems to break out into three professions: engineers, nurses and teachers. One of the teachers installed a retractable clothes line about 1 foot off the floor just in front of the door. She can pull it out an hook it up in about 2 seconds. It makes a great trip wire. She also has plans to toss the children out the window. Yes, she’s on the ground floor.

I will freely admit that I don’t know the solution to this problem, then again, I am not an elected official whose job it is to try and find one. The fact that most of our elected official at all levels of government are not even willing to try and find a solution to this problem should have all Americans “Up In Arms”.

What kind of a country allows something like this? You have more people dying every year by gun shots than people in Syria. Your government is so pathetic; you allow children, maybe your own children, to die in school by lunatics who are able to obtain automatic weapons legally. You have to give your head a shake and wake up already. Why isn’t anything being done? Just because you’re afraid of a lobbying group with money? Your government is absolutely pathetic how you allow this to happen, over and over and over again. Perhaps the next generation will stand up to the NRA and say enough is enough. There is no argument by anyone that can allow guns to be put in the hands of lunatics; your “right to bear arms” has to be eliminated. Your founding fathers were talking about a militia to defend your country, not allowing lunatics to kill indiscriminately. Pathetic, just pathetic. Sandy Hook should have been the end of this BS, yet you allow it to happen again and again. How can you look at yourselves in the mirror and call yourselves human? Those poor innocent children having their lives cut short: America, please wake up and fix your problem!

As of June 14, 2018, 1,183 people have been shot in Chicago. 2016 was a bloodbath year with numbers approaching the 1970s and 1990s level: 4,380 shot. Mass shootings are becoming more common. On 6/10/ 2018, five days ago, six people were shot at one address in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. If the eighteenth century writers of the Constitution were confronted with this twenty-first century reality then the Second Amendment would read very differently.

And Chicago has one of the most liberal of governments and one of the strictest gun laws. What is the solution? I have absolutely no idea.

BTW: last weekend had a 13 year old killed by his best friend in a “gun accident”, police and DA aren’t releasing info on whether it was a rifle, shotgun, or handgun. Only thing from rumor mill central is that they, of course, thought the gun was unloaded, which points to semi-auto handgun potential.

In 1959, when the AR-15 went on the market, mass shootings were unheard of. The most famous mass shooting was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre where some gang members gunned down some members of a rival gang in Chicago. The first time a school/church/work social was the target of a mass shooting was in (IIRC) the mid 80s. Two kids shot up a school. They did not use an AR-15. The “vicious” AR-15 was around for over 20 years and was never used to commit such an atrocity. What has changed in our society that would foster school shootings? It certainly was not the availability of guns. Guns are not the problem. A gun is just and “it”. An “it” does nothing without a “who”. Why are you gun grabbing loons so focused on the “it” and not the “who”?

To all who believe that guns should be banned or heavily regulated. How do we accomplish this without violating our Fourth Amendment rights?

Right, the same way we issued protective gear and parachutes to all air travelers after September 11.

Wait, what? We merely made it so that bad people cannot bring bad things on the airplane? That does sound so much easier.

https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/06/06/draft-n2487549/print

Wow! Look at all the commments. So sad that we even have this problem!

It’s sad when it’s perceived by those with the most power that fear is a better thing to sell than hope.

Future generations will look back at this era with the same contempt, scorn and pity as we do when we look back at the Salem Witch Trials.

We demand gun regulation and they supply more guns.

“If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry.”

Sat what you want, but this would be more effective than banning scary looking guns.

Nothing more american than hitting the wrong target (metaphorically and literally).

“.. since no one has any specific proposal to take away the guns (meaning to the founders a single-shot musket) from anyone who is not a terrorist, convicted violent felon, domestic abuser or mentally disturbed…”

But the entire anti-gun dialogue here has focused on banning guns. Banning guns takes them away from not just criminals and mentally disturbed but the law abiding citizens also. The gun community has heard far too many state the ultimate aim is to take away all guns. But rather than all at once, it will be a slow “death by a thousand pricks” type of thing.

BTW, I am not a member of the NRA. I am also neither a Democrat nor a Republican but more of a Constitutionalist Independent. That is why I support the Republic we are rather than a democracy.

What a can of worms this one opened…