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awoke_in_2003

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36. I remember the day Gabby Giffords was shot

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 09:42 PM

Oct 2015

It seemed surreal. Of course, nothing was done by the Do Nothing congress.

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Luckovich - When Gun Legislation Will Happen [View all] groundloop Oct 2015 OP

Ok... NightWatcher Oct 2015 #1

We can only hope...And I'm kidding, of course. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #2

I wouldn't wish that on anyone..... groundloop Oct 2015 #3

Nor would I. CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2015 #6

The folks making sure NONE of us are safe because of too many guns, are very safe, I assure you. randys1 Oct 2015 #4

Might want to self-delete shenmue Oct 2015 #9

Don't want to get one of those nasty alerts.. erronis Oct 2015 #34

I remember the day Gabby Giffords was shot awoke_in_2003 Oct 2015 #36

I'm starting to think most of Congress is made up of holograms anyway. They're not human. nt valerief Oct 2015 #46

Gun control will happen before this horror. Agreeing with the cartoon's conclusion is defeatist! Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #5

If shooting 20 6&7 year olds didn't do it, nothing will. NightWatcher Oct 2015 #7

^ This. Right here. forest444 Oct 2015 #14

I pulled off the road and started crying when I heard that rurallib Oct 2015 #30

I had grade school age grandchildren then awoke_in_2003 Oct 2015 #38

Poignant. And correct. slumcamper Oct 2015 #39

Or this KamaAina Oct 2015 #8

Heh... madinmaryland Oct 2015 #16

No, that would be more like this KamaAina Oct 2015 #44

If the gun homicide rate of white people equaled the gun homicide of black people Major Nikon Oct 2015 #10

Good point mainstreetonce Oct 2015 #11

The gun homicide and mass murder rate of white people by white people is the highest of all. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #17

The reason why you are not sure is because you didn't read and/or understand what I wrote Major Nikon Oct 2015 #22

Fred What are you talking about? StoneCarver Oct 2015 #24

So no wonder white-folk-led GOP and NRA want to do nothing about gun control, as you suggest. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #27

I have thought that for a long time. If black girls had more abortions than whites did LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #47

I wouldn't want to give anyone any ideas.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #12

And a woman passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #42

And even then it probably wouldn't happen - not with the GOP in charge. forest444 Oct 2015 #13

Yes, but .... left-of-center2012 Oct 2015 #15

the ultimate "good guy with a gun" wet dream groundloop Oct 2015 #25

Wouldn't last long rpannier Oct 2015 #18

Yup. Only when a repuke Congresscritter gets shot will we see gun safety laws meow2u3 Oct 2015 #19

Exactly. SoapBox Oct 2015 #20

Congress has been attacked in the past. former9thward Oct 2015 #21

Thank you Jim Beard Oct 2015 #32

And at the time it must have seemed extraordinary, isolated, surreal and not emblematic of an... Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2015 #43

Didn't that actually happen? I believe it was U.S. Senator John Tower who was pro gun Hoppy Oct 2015 #23

No, because it would be a 99.9% probability that it would be a right-winger picking off left-wingers Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #26

In 1954 it was left wingers shooting up the House. former9thward Oct 2015 #45

Great cartoon Gothmog Oct 2015 #28

When gun violence starts to impact the 1%... perdita9 Oct 2015 #29

I thought it would be a toon of hell freezing over. LuckyLib Oct 2015 #31

Or the heat death of the universe. SheilaT Oct 2015 #33

Yes, gun legislation will happen then if ... DrBulldog Oct 2015 #35

Has already happened Old Codger Oct 2015 #37

Luckovich can't draw flying pigs? jmowreader Oct 2015 #40

touche Iris Oct 2015 #41

Already has happened and still a reminder of the shooting packman Oct 2015 #48

I think the toon is wrong. For Gun Legislation to happen, NCjack Oct 2015 #49