Guns and Prayers

The search for the gunman who killed at least 18 people and injured 13 others in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night is still ongoing and there are fears he could become another Eric Rudolph, the white nationalist terrorist who hid for years in the wilderness after bombing the Atlanta Olympics, a lesbian bar, and abortion clinics. Guess which political party aligns with his views. The Maine shooter is a 40-year-old white guy with mental problems and a gun fetish. Golly, I wonder what his political views are.

Authorities will eventually find the Maine mass shooter, hopefully, sooner than later. What they won’t find are any answers and solutions from the Republican Party to stop these murders which for some reason, only happen in the United States. Like the inspiration of today’s cartoon, they will send out “thoughts and prayers” while continuing to glorify guns.

Lauren Boebert inspired this cartoon. Yesterday, she tweeted “thoughts and prayers” to the victims and survivors in Maine. I tweeted a reply to her stating that maybe she should send her Christmas card to them and perhaps that would cheer them up.

A couple years ago, Bobo sent out a Christmas card featuring her and her sons, who were each happily holding assault rifles. This was a thing for Republicans that year, sending out gun-fetish Christmas cards. There’s something seriously fucked up about using Christmas to promote your boner for assault rifles. One congressman made sure his assault rifles were clearly visible during a committee hearing through Zoom during the pandemic. One fucknut gun-humping right-wing racist political cartoonist makes sure one of his assault weapons is visible when he’s a guest on his syndicate’s podcast.

I was thinking about the children who were at the bowling alley where the shooter first attacked. I thought about how they shouldn’t have to live in a nation in fear of being a victim in a mass shooting or even witnessing one. I thought about my own child who’s a grown man now. I thought that if he was born today, instead of 1990 (fuck, I’m old), I would want to move my family out of this nation to someplace more sensible. I would want to raise him in a place more sensible about guns because this nation isn’t it, especially the state where he was mostly raised, Mississippi.

It’s Friday which is my CNN day. I like to focus on that which is why I’ve started drawing my Friday cartoon for my newspaper clients on Thursday nights. I actually started this one pretty late last night, around 11 p.m. I wasn’t sure about it at first because it might be too subtle for some readers (one guy on Twitter is still trying to figure out the ketchup cartoon). Sometimes, the creator can’t tell. But then I decided it says exactly what I wanted it to say. It didn’t need a reference to Maine because I find myself saying the same thing after every mass shooting.

We cartoonists are always trying to find something new to say about the same tragic events which for some reason, only occur here. And I’ll be trying it again on the next one which will be coming very soon.

Music note: I listened to Weezer.

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