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1. about 14 hours ago on Joe Heller

   Talk about a mixed metaphor …

   Excellent toon, Joe!

   Is that an extended capacity magazine there?

2. about 15 hours ago on Grand Avenue

   Reminds me very much of this..

   https://youtu.be/qTx0S_dT_B8

3. about 23 hours ago on The Flying McCoys

   Keep in mind that the guys don’t get much better…

   In my mind it’s a bit of “if our looks matched our behavior…”

4. about 23 hours ago on The Flying McCoys

   And that’s probably his boss in the foreground.

   If you’re going to do something, do it all the way!

5. 1 day ago on Bob Gorrell

   What has not changed: It’s all about the money

   What has changed: To a degree, who the money goes to.

6. 2 days ago on Nick Anderson

   Does that mean we shouldn’t try to do something about it?

7. 3 days ago on Nick Anderson

   Yes exactly!

   That incident was an extreme form of the story that occurs many times every day.

8. 3 days ago on ViewsAmerica

   More like, you don’t have to go away, but if you tell the public about this you have to pay me lots of money.

9. 3 days ago on Nick Anderson

   Clearly this was someone with bad intentions throughout.

   My musings were more along your path of the good guy with a gun, and at what point do we suddenly realize they are a bad guy with a gun.

   My favored response to the GGWaG meme is that (almost) everyone is a GGWaG until a point where they are a BGWaG. The cognitive failure the pro gun group suffers is that they don’t realize that pretty much everyone has such a point, and that simply having guns in the mix greatly increases the probability of their use.

10. 3 days ago on Nick Anderson

    I wonder at what point in time did the murderer actually break the law?

    Was it just walking in the open carrying 2 semi-automatic rifles and a pistol in public?

    The Governor just signed an open carry law. I’ll assume it was not in force yet, and that open carry before that law was restricted. Then it would depend upon that restriction/licensing.

    Was it the moment they stepped on school property? Are there laws constraining gun possession on school grounds?

    Was it the moment they went through a side door of the school? In many places entering a school without official permission is either not allowed or explicitly illegal. Would having guns modify that situation?

    Or was it only when the perpetrator aimed a weapon and pulled the trigger?