Just to bring everyone up to speed, the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is that the whole spiel about a militia is basically irrelevant. Source: Supreme Court decision in DC v. Heller (2008).

Love it or hate it, them’s the facts. That said, plenty of other decisions have been overturned at a later date. Like the one that made black people less than equal to whites in Dredd Scott v. Sanford or the endorsement of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson. So things might change at some point.

See that mast disappearing behind the horizon? That ship sailed a long time ago.

Because nobody is stopping them.

Capillary dilation of the so-called blush response? Fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris…

“Poop”?

Will make zero difference to ardent supporters of the death cult. They know. They’ve known for years.

They do. Not. Care.

Are you saying you’re suffering a dearth of targets?

Again, if this is not the time to exercise your supposed God-given right to bear arms to ward off a tyrannical government then the whole point of the 2nd Amendment is moot.

I’ve said it before: You guys aren’t going to vote your way out of this pickle. I hate to say this (sincerely!) but this is going to end in violence one way or another. 🙁

I get the point the comic is trying to make, but saying that more guns means more people die from guns isn’t really a “gotcha”… In places with fewer guns, fewer people are using guns to do their murderings.

Fair point but see below…

I’d be more interested in a graph that shows total murders per capita compared to gun ownership per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

The United States has over 4 times more murders per capita than France, for instance.

And you really shouldn’t discount just how easy it is to kill someone with a gun. I don’t have the stats at hand right now but knife related killings (as an example) are way less likely to happen because victims have a comparatively good chance to survive a knife attack.

There are solid reasons for keeping weapons that are designed to kill human beings out of the hands of most of us.

So where is the well-regulated militia defending the United States with their huge arsenal of guns? We’re not hearing anything about valiant protectors of the constitution taking up arms against the domestic enemies that are ICE, MAGA, etc…it’s almost as if the whole spiel about needing guns to resist a tyrannical government was BS all along. 🤔