My paper's cartoon today could not have predicted the next mass shooting would be today

[Mira]

As I type we're learning about a shooting in Lafayette Louisiana, in a movie theater, where two (including the shooter an older man) are dead and 6-8 are injured.
Not much else is known at this time, sad and ironic is that the other theater shooter's jury is deliberating at the moment to either give him life or death.


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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Gothmog]

2. Sad cartoon

[Frustratedlady]

4. Sad state of affairs.

What is going to be the trigger than finally stops this madness?

[malaise]

3. Prescient

Guns kill

[daleanime]

7. +1

[DFW]

13. Allow people to have access to guns, SOME of them will use them

It is too late for the gun crowd to come in with the "yes, but..." lines.

People are dead because the wrong people had access to guns and used them.

The only question is if we want our country's per capita gun death statistics to more resemble those of Syria or those of Denmark? The NRA is rooting for Syria. So far, they are getting their wish.

[awoke_in_2003]

25. Sadly it isn't

These shootings are happening too damn frequently

[niyad]

5. a very sad k and r. we all know these things are now a matter of "when", not "if".

[Electric Monk]

6. Also, from today's Toon Roundup #2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027001600




I've added them both to the GCRA 'Toon collection: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=9363

[oldandhappy]

8. yes!

[passiveporcupine]

9. Had not heard about today's shooting yet.

Damn!

[jtuck004]

10. I see there are plenty of flags. Now he can move to the next one... n/t

[Mira]

11. It's quite terrifying

because it could be absolutely anywhere.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. I considered getting the scanner on

due to copycats. Too late tonight I hope. But it is just a matter of time am afraid.

[SheilaT]

14. And people here shut me down

every time I say guns should be confiscated.

So long as guns are readily available, these shootings will happen. Anyone at all who isn't willing to take guns away from people are not entitled to act shocked or even surprised when these things happen.

Another day, another shooting. If shooting 20 elementary school children isn't enough to seriously change our gun laws, then what will it take? 30? 50? More? I'm so sick of the pious hand wringing, and the weeping over these deaths. So long as we allow guns, these killings, these deaths will happen. It's simply a part of our life. Don't even begin to pretend these could be prevented by anything other than outright taking of guns. If you don't support that, then you're happily complicit in all these murders.

[SoapBox]

15. Well I'll agree with you.

This perverted gun obsession makes me sick.

[Nevernose]

17. +1 n/t

[Mira]

18. PRECISELY stated n/t

[malaise]

20. That simple

Meanwhile two teenagers wiped out most of their family in Oklahoma - but it barely made the news.

ISIS has nothing on the NRA

[sarisataka]

22. Why do you suppose

There is so little attention given to the mass murder in Oklahoma?

[friendly_iconoclast]

27. They were all stabbed to death, so the antigun crowd doesn't care:

https://www.google.com/search?q=oklahoma+murder+family&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=oklahoma+murder+family&tbm=nws

[SheilaT]

30. You are at least partially right.

I stumbled across that story in my local newspaper. It seems like a genuine tragedy -- as are all such murders.

Sometimes, these sorts of murders, with knives not guns, are used to prove that people will kill even if they don't have guns. Alas, the vast majority of murders in this country involve guns. I'm not advocating or justifying killing with knives. I do understand that at least sometimes someone bent on murder will accomplish it with whatever means comes to hand.

Lets not make it easy and have guns so readily available.

[friendly_iconoclast]

36. We will all be safer when the causes, not just the instrumentality, of violence are addressed

[Eleanors38]

23. Missed the one in Oklahoma.

[laundry_queen]

26. +a million nt

[friendly_iconoclast]

28. "If you don't support that, then you're happily complicit in all these murders."

That sounds a lot like this:

Shame to see this mindset getting approval at DU

[SheilaT]

31. No. It's not the same.

George W was deliberately invoking a false dichotomy.

What I'm saying is that if you support the kind of unlimited access to guns we have in this country, then you give up the right to act shocked at the many gun deaths that occur. Toddlers killing their mothers. Children killing other children. Grown men going into movie theaters and shooting as many patrons as they can.

If the guns weren't so easily available, none of these murders would happen. They don't happen in other countries. Australia took away guns after a mass murder with guns. If they could do it, why can't we?

[friendly_iconoclast]

35. You're backtracking- you said those that don't agree are "happily complicit in...murders"

I'll remind the disinterested reader what the word 'complicit' means:

com·plic·it
kəmˈplisit/
adjective
adjective: complicit

involved with others in an illegal activity or wrongdoing.

It was bullshit when Little Georgie Porgie said it, and it's bullshit now.
This is the same mindset that got the Patriot Act passed.

[lib87]

16. I'm Not Surprised

And that's the worst possible emotion to have. As long as guns are available, this is going to keep happening.

[Mira]

21. Shock Fatigue

and outrage exhaustion.

[lib87]

29. It's Like Watching the Same Car Accident in Slow Motion

over and over.

[napkinz]

19. K&R

[napkinz]

24. kick

[Aerows]

32. I don't know about you

but I'm sick of this. Ban handguns. If you aren't capable of using rifles and long guns, then you have no business using one.

There, I said it.

[Mira]

33. I must tell you

I'm against all of them. Don't even know the difference between them.
I grew up in Germany. Guns did not enter my universe til I moved here. If people hurt each other they hit each other over the head with a beer stein.
I believe with all my heart I am less likely to be shot if I come down the stairs with a candle in order to confront a villain, than if I come down with a gun.

[Aerows]

34. I'm glad we are having this conversation

and utterly, abysmally depressed that we are having it again.

[Mira]

37. I am encouraged about the video of our President today

(or day before)
indicating that addressing this issue remains a powerful goal in his remaining 18 months.
I call this time the "Obama-don't-care" era based on his behavior as of late.

I am therefore quite hopeful.

(now for the issue of investigation and pursuit of Cheney and Bush and abandoning the verbiage of "going forward and not looking back" I have given up even during the Obama don't care months, I know it's another issue, but I will never fail to rail about it)