I’m surprised Republicans still push the “thoughts and prayers” line. No, I don’t expect them to drop it in place for actual solutions to gun violence. I’m just surprised that after it’s been mocked so much and pointed out that it’s an empty answer, that they haven’t replaced it with another empty solution.
Thoughts and prayers are nice sentiments…if you add solutions to them. But if you’re going to only give us thoughts and prayers while resisting solutions to end the mass executions of innocent Americans, then thoughts and prayers are not nice sentiments. If anything, you’re using them to continue the status quo of mass shootings.
What’s even worse is that you give us thoughts and prayers while saying it’s “too soon” to talk about gun violence. But at the rate of more mass shootings than days this year, it will always be too soon.
Thoughts and prayers don’t work. The proof of that is there have been mass shootings inside churches.
While I don’t believe in God, I will put him in a cartoon and give you the message of “shaddup.” Keep your thoughts and prayers and give us an assault weapons ban.
Creative note: I drew yesterday’s cartoon at Soho Coffee near my hotel, the Baron. After attempting to check in to the Baron, they told me that Booking.com made a mistake and I was actually staying at their affiliate hotel, the Architect. I was annoyed and found out at that hotel, that the fucker at the Baron lied to me, and that they had simply transferred me. But, the Architect was nicer and I’m really glad the new friend I met last night didn’t have to see whatever room I would have had at the Baron. But, when it came time to draw today’s cartoon, I chose to skip the Starbucks near the Architect and come back to Soho because it’s really too nice here. Sure, the music sucks, but it’s a great place to draw. The coffee’s good too.
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After a mass shooter killed five people last week in Cleveland, Texas, Republicans were quick to point out that the shooter might be an undocumented migrant. Texas Governor Greg Abbott went so far as to call all five victims “illegal immigrants,” and continued with his political stunt of deporting migrants to Chicago a few days later.
The solution that would have stopped this one mass shooting, if you listen to Republicans, is closing our border with Mexico. But there are two problems with that logic. One, the border isn’t open. Two, what would have stopped the other nearly 200 mass shootings that have occurred in the United States this year? Howling about the border wouldn’t have stopped any of those.
There was another mass shooting in Texas on Saturday. This time, at least eight were killed with seven others injured at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, a community north of Dallas. The gunman was stopped by a policeman who was on duty at the mall which will add to the Republican chorus about how we need more good guys with guns rather than an assault weapons ban. The problem with that logic is that the gunman was able to kill at least eight people with his assault weapon before the good guy got to him.
If we had an assault weapons ban, maybe eight people wouldn’t have died in another American mass shooting on Saturday.
Another uncomfortable fact for Republicans is that our gun crisis is more of a threat to this nation than illegal immigration. The number one cause of death for children in the United States of America is guns, not open borders.
Creative note: I started to draw this cartoon on the train home today and even tweeted a pic of it, but I threw it away when I got home and started over.
Music note: I listened to Alice Cooper.
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In the span of a week, people were shot for knocking on the wrong door, getting into the wrong car, and pulling into the wrong driveway. I did a cartoon on it and initially, it seemed like a lot of people didn’t get it (though readers on GoComics did. Go figure). But, I wanted a second (no pun intended) shot at it. I did one for CNN but I wanted to do another for my clients. So I drew this up Friday before last and didn’t get to finish it until today.
One of these shooting incidents was racist and is another example of the danger of being black in in the United States of America.
16-year-old Ralph Yarl was picking up his younger brothers from a friend’s house and mistakenly went to the wrong house. After knocking on the door, He was shot twice, once in the head, by 84-year-old Andrew Lester.
In a CNN interview, Andrew Lester’s grandson described his grandfather as a racist Fox News obsessive, adding that he believes his grandfather’s views are common among a certain type of older white Christian males. Before Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox News, he tailored his show to racists by pushing the “great replacement theory” and argued that whites were under constant attack and racism does not exist.
Four days after Lester shot Yarl, and before he was fired, Tucker said on his show, “When you let the mob loot, you are doomed. This is why we used to shoot looters — not because we hated them, it wasn’t personal — but in order to defend the foundation of all that we have, which is private property secured by the law. Without that, we would be living in savagery and chaos.
“In Chicago, they already are. There is no point to that. Nobody is benefiting. What you’re seeing instead is civilization unraveling, unrestrained violence and destruction effectively unchallenged by government authorities, the mindless breaking of things, the rage of stupid children. If you let that continue, there will be nothing left standing.”
Fox News isn’t just killing our democracy, they’re basically telling white Americans to shoot black Americans because after all, if they’re ringing your doorbell, then they’re there to loot, rape, and murder decent hard-working white Christians.
The real shame about Tucker’s firing is that he wasn’t fired for his racist agenda. Fox News loved that his show was number one with white nationalists.
Missouri has a stand-your-ground law. Lester plans to use it and he’s already said he was in fear for his life when a very large black guy rang his doorbell, so he shot him…twice. But Yarl is 5-foot-8 and 140 pounds. He’s also a bass clarinet player in his school band.
If you’re afraid of that, then you’d probably shoot a black Girl Scout.
Music Note: I listened to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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A couple weeks ago, Politico ran a cartoon by the “anonymous” cartoonist (shame on you, Politico). And in the cartoon, he points out that the percentage of gun ownership in this nation has remained steady since the early 70s. He is correct but what the Canadian cartoonist pretending to be a U.S. cartoonist misses is the number of households that own more than one gun, the types of guns, and the sheer volume of guns in this country (the country I live in, not the one the “anonymous” cartoonist lives in).
About three in ten Americans own a gun and 29 percent of those own five or more guns. I’m sure there is a greater ratio of people owning AK-47s and Uzis today than in 1972. In a nation of 333 million people, there are over 400 million guns. And as we’ve seen over the past week with people being shot for knocking on the wrong door, pulling into the wrong driveway, or getting into the wrong car, there are too many gun owners in this country who shouldn’t even own one.
The fraud that is the “anonymous” cartoonist is telling us that we don’t have a gun problem here in the United States of America…from the safety of his drawing board in Canada.
Music note: I listened to Bush.
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On April 14 in Kansas City, Missouri, 16-year-old Ralph Yarl was intending to pick up his twin brothers from a friend’s house and ended up knocking on the wrong door. He was shot in the head by 84-year-old Andrew Lester.
On April 15 in Hebron, New York, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis was in a car with friends being driven by her boyfriend and they were looking for another friend’s house. After turning into the wrong driveway, Kaylin was shot and killed by 65-year-old Kevin Monahan.
On April 18 in Elgin, Texas, 18-year-old Payton Washington was shot by 25-year-old Pedro Rodriguez after her friend, Heather Roth, accidentally got into the wrong car. Washington is in critical condition after being shot in her back and in her leg. Roth was grazed by a bullet, treated, and released.
Yarl has been discharged from the hospital and still recovering. Yarl is black. Lester, the shooter, is white and was taken into police custody on the day he shot Yarl, April 14, and then released. He wasn’t charged until April 17. Go figure, right? Lester shot Yarl twice through the glass window of the front door, later saying he thought Yarl was trying to break in and that he was “scared to death” of Yarl’s size. Yarl is a 5-foot-8 and 140-pound bass clarinet player in his high school band. Scary.
I can not tell you how many times I’ve been mugged, mauled, and pummeled by 140-pound bass clarinet players. When I went to New York City two weeks ago, all my friends told me the same thing: Watch out for 140-pound bass clarinet players because this one time, at band bamp… And sure enough, as soon as I got off the train in Penn Station, there was a 140-pound bass clarinet player waiting for me, saying, “Give me your wallet, motherfucker. Toot!”
Gillis and her friends were in two cars and pulling out of the driveway when she was shot by Monahan, who came out of his home and fired twice into the car with a 12-gauge shotgun. There was a standoff between him and police for over an hour. Because of a lack of cellphone reception, Gillis’ friends drove her to the next town before she could be treated. She later died from the gun wounds. Monahan has been charged with second-degree murder.
Washington and Roth has just completed cheerleader practice when at a grocery store parking lot they used for their carpools, Roth got into the wrong car and realized it when she saw Rodriguez in the passenger seat. She quickly got out and after getting into her friend’s car, she saw Rodriguez approach and rolled down her window to apologize. And then, according to Roth, “He pulled out a gun, and then he just started shooting at all of us. Payton opens the door, and she starts throwing up blood.”
There are stand-your-ground laws in this nation that allows you to shoot someone if you’re being attacked, and in some places, merely threatened. It was used successfully in 2014 in Florida when George Zimmerman got out of his vehicle to confront Trayvon Martin about trespassing. Despite outweighing Martin by over 160 pounds, Zimmerman was able to get off scot-free after shooting and killing him, and then later claiming he was afraid for his life, so he took Martin’s. Trayvon was armed with Skittles which may outrage gun-humping fucknut conservatives as much as a can of trans-Bud Light. Taste the rainbow.
Now, we’re not even waiting to be threatened. We’re just shooting at anything that moves.
Knocking on the wrong door, pulling into the wrong driveway, and getting into the wrong car should not be a death sentence.
When I was a teenager, I once walked into the wrong apartment. I was visiting my older brother and staying at his apartment for a night. I went to meet some friends and on the way back, because all the apartments looked the same, I walked into the wrong one. There was a guy on the couch who I scared to death and I’m really glad he wasn’t holding a gun. I was probably 15 and weighing around 140 pounds myself, and I ran. I ran as fast as my skinny scrawny legs could carry me. When I reached my brother’s door, I saw the guy standing outside his apartment, looking very confused. Nobody was shot. Nobody died, though I could have from embarrassment. I kept waiting for that guy to knock on the door, or just barge in, but it never happened.
A few years later, I had just picked up a girl for a date and realized she was going to open the door to the wrong car to get in. Because I’m evil and enjoy a good bwahaha, I let her do it, then after she was in the wrong car, I opened the passenger side to my car and she about died from embarrassment. Nobody was shot. She scolded me while I laughed at her, then we went bowling and had a good time. She didn’t give me any but the bwahaha was worth it.
And I can not tell you how many times I pulled into the wrong driveway, or even just turned around in a stranger’s driveway. You’ve done that too and yet, you’re still alive. Nobody should be murdered for committing a harmless mistake.
This doesn’t happen in other nations. Here, it happened three times in one week. This is bullshit. We have to get over our gun fetish. We also need to calm down. Hear people out before you start shooting at them. Writing for The Guardian, Francine Prose asks: How do we change the belief that it’s a good idea to shoot first and ask questions later? How do we repair this broken chromosome in our nation’s cowboy DNA?
I live inside an apartment building and I’ve had several encounters with people who don’t live here. Usually, they’re homeless and I just step over them as they’re laying in the hallway. If they don’t bother me, then I don’t bother them. I haven’t slaughtered any of them yet. Coming home one night around 10 p.m., I passed a guy standing around in the hallway loitering. After getting into my apartment, he knocked on my door to ask how he could get an apartment in this building. He believe that since the front door of the building wasn’t locked, that gave him the right to loiter and override the sign on the door saying “no loitering.” I wasn’t in the mood for it and told him to leave. He was an asshole standing between me and the Big Mac I had just brought home, but I still didn’t murder him. Last year, two young guys knocked on my door at 2 a.m. I was not pleased. I cracked the door open, they told me they were looking for one of my neighbors. I told them they had the wrong apartment and pointed to where they needed to go. I was very grouchy and irritable and despite the fact they were snot-nosed entitled white-privileged millennials, I didn’t kill them.
Maybe I live in the wrong country.
Creative note: This cartoon might be too subtle. It’s not getting many reactions on social media, which also might mean I’m being shadow-banned, and one of my proofers didn’t get it at all. One guy on Twitter thought it was about Chinese spy balloons. But then again, there are also people online who think my name is actually “Claytoonz.”
Music note: I listened to Pearl Jam.
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If Republican voter suppression laws aren’t effective enough, they’ll just expel the people black voters elect. That’s what they’re doing in Tennessee.
Three members of the Tennessee legislature protested in the well of the House, demanding tougher gun laws in the wake of the March 7 shooting at Covenant School in Nashville that killed six. They interrupted the legislative session chanting, “No action, no peace.” They were found in violation of House rules of decorum and procedure. Their ID access to the capitol building was revoked and two of them were stripped of their committee assignments.
Two of the protesting members are young black men and one is an older white woman. Two of them were expelled from the legislature last night. Guess which two.
Justin Pearson and Justin Jones (no relation to me, I think) were kicked out of the legislature despite being duly-elected members. Now, about 200,000 Tennesseans, mostly black, are without representation in the state House. Gloria Johnson survived an attempt to expel her by one vote. She credited her survival to the color of her skin.
Tennessee Republicans suck at protecting their citizens from gun violence, but are great at saving them from Critical Race Theory, drag queens, and uppity-elected black men.
One Republican compared their protest to the January 6 insurrection and said it was worse. Republicans who actually aided that insurrection have NOT been expelled and are still in Congress proposing more insurrections. Some of them even got promoted to more prestigious committees despite being supporters of terrorists and despite being lunatics and morons.
Republicans also claim that prosecuting Donald Trump for breaking many many oh so many laws is political and an attempt to keep him from being president. Yet, here they are expelling black Democrats members AFTER they’ve been elected.
And, the only way Tennessee Republicans had the number of votes to do this is because of gerrymandering. Sure, Tennessee is a red state that Trump won with 60 percent of the vote in 2020, but Republicans control the House by three-quarters. Tennessee is red, but not as red as the House.
Republicans would rather expel elected black members of the legislature than do anything about school shootings, and from a previous ban they installed, it won’t be included in future school textbooks.
So what now for the two who have been expelled? They can run for their seats again in special elections. Their districts may even appoint them to temporarily fill their own vacancies. I hope they do that. I hope no Democrat runs against them in their primaries. I want to see these two young men back in the Tennessee legislature to show Republicans that they can not defy the will of the people.
This was a strict party-line vote. Only Republicans voted to expel these Democrats. This was entirely partisan. When one party starts removing duly-elected members of an opposing party, it’s fascism. And in this case, it’s also racism.
On Justin Pearson’s first day in the House, he wore a dashiki to honor his African heritage which he said that without, he never would have accomplished becoming a member of the state legislature. One of his Republican colleagues took to the floor to denounce the dashiki being worn in the House.
So, did they expel Pearson for the dashiki? Of course not. They expelled him and Justine Jones for being black.
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In the awesome movie “Wreck-It Ralph,” Ralph is the villain in an old 80s arcade game destroying the building that is constantly being repaired by our hero, Fix-It Felix Jr, which he does with a magic hammer gifted to him by his father. Ralph admits that Felix is good at fixing things, but also says, “If he was a regular contractor carpenter guy, I guarantee you, you would not be able to fix the damage that I do as quickly.” But Felix does fix things and it’s entirely what he’s about. But if Felix was a Republican, he wouldn’t be Fix-It Felix. No, he’d be Fuck-it Felix.
Fuck-It Felix would be in Congress and after seeing another American school shooting, this time in the state he represents, he wouldn’t say, “I’m gonna fix it,” which is what Fix-It Felix would say. Nope. Fuck-It Felix would say, “We’re not going to fix it.” In fact, Fuck-It Felix isn’t even going to try beyond “thoughts and prayers.” But hey, at least Fuck-It Felix is finally admitting that not only can’t he fix it, but he’s also not even going to try.
Talking to reporters, Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett said, “It’s a horrible, horrible situation, and we’re not going to fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals. And my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me, he said, ‘Buddy,’ he said, ‘if somebody wants to take you out, and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.'”
What? By that logic, we shouldn’t have fought World War II. But ya know, go tell the families that when a lunatic with an assault rifle wants to murder their children at school, “there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.” I guess you just gotta accept it.
He also said, “I don’t see any real role that we could do other than mess things up, honestly … I don’t think you’re going to stop the gun violence. I think you got to change people’s hearts. You know, as a Christian, as we talk about in the church, and I’ve said this many times, I think we really need a revival in this country.”
I’ve been to revivals when I was a kid and for a fifth-grade atheist, they were horrible.
Fuck-It Burchett has an A rating from the National Rifle Association and a 95 percent yay rating from the Heritage Foundation, probably because of shit like proposing more revivals to stop mass shootings over programs that actually work, like a ban on assault weapons. Mr. Fuck-It opposed a bipartisan gun control bill and universal background checks for gun purchases. He’s also one of the 125 House members who signed a brief backing the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and make the United States a fascist dictatorship.
Tennessee is also represented in the House by Republican Andy Ogles, a former mayor who claimed he was the “most conservative mayor in Tennessee”. His district includes parts of Nashville. He offered “thoughts and prayers” to the victims of this week’s school shooting in Nashville but stands by the gun-fetish Christmas card he sent friends, families, and supporters that was very similar to the bang-bang Christmas cards issued by the Boebert and Massie families. Yes, the Ogles family Christmas card featured wife, husband, and kids…most of whom were armed with assault rifles. I guess they’re ready for the War on Christmas if it ever shows up. I think we should at least be thankful that they didn’t show us the boners their guns gave them.
Cartoonist Michael Ramirez is on board with the Fuck-Its, claiming the problem is there are not enough thoughts and prayers. If thoughts and prayers are the solutions to gun violence, then why isn’t it working yet?
Republicans don’t want to do anything about gun violence. They don’t want to try to “fix it.” They would rather use mass shootings to put more guns into the populace and with the recent shooting in Nashville, use them to attack LGBTQ. Never mind the fact that 99.99 percent of all mass shootings are done by white guys.
Fundamentalists love to say “prayers work” while not offering statistical evidence that they do, but statistical evidence shows that while we had a national assault weapons ban, mass shootings were down by 25 percent. Republicans refuse to reinstate the assault weapons ban while knowing it worked and saved lives. Another stat Republicans need to look at is that mass shootings on a daily basis only happen in the United States of America. Another fun fact is that no school shooting was ever prevented by a gun-humper Christmas card.
Republicans offer no solutions to real problems. It’s like when they voted to repeal Obamacare over 50 times without ever offering a replacement. Their replacement for the assault weapons ban is thoughts and prayers.
At least one Republican admits they’re not going to fix it. But if you’re not even going to try to fix major problems in this country, then what the fuck are you doing in Congress?
OK, you guys want to fuck your guns. I get it. But how about you stop posing up a storm with your assault weapons and do something that will actually stop mass shootings.
You’re not owning the libs, Fuck-It Felix…you’re helping gun fuckers murder children.
Music note: I listened to Soundgarden.
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Three students and three school staffers were murdered today in another American mass shooting, this time in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the Gun Violence Archive, this is the 129th mass shooting in the United States this year. That’s 129 mass shootings in the past three months, and we still have four more days before this month is over. Hell, the day’s not over. For one person at the scene, it was her second time witnessing a mass shooting. Only in the United States can a person be a witness to two mass shootings.
And this happened in Tennessee where out of “concern” for child safety, the Republican-controlled state legislature just banned public drag shows. Last year, they banned Critical Race Theory even though it didn’t exist in any schools in the state.
There have been no mass murders in schools or anywhere else in this nation by drag queens or Critical Race Theory. But school shootings happen. They happen a lot. So why is it so easy to ban drag shows and a black history course that doesn’t exist yet we can’t talk about gun control? Why can’t we talk about a ban on assault weapons?
Republicans became very comfortable with kids being murdered by assault rifles several years ago. Guns are more important to them than the lives of our children. So is homophobia and racism which is why they’re so eager to act against drag queens and black history which multiple states are now banning.
And the thing is, I’ve already written this blog. I’ve already drawn this cartoon. And I’m going to write it again and I’m going to draw it again. I’m tired of drawing dead bodies. And, a lot of Republicans are going to tell me “too soon” with this cartoon.
Within minutes of posting this cartoon on Twitter, a goon tweeted a meme at me about Nazis and gun bans. It’s “too soon” for me to talk about gun control on the day of a school shooting, but the goons can go ahead and lie about Nazis and gun bans.
So if the day of a mass shooting is “too soon,” when does “too soon” expire? When can I talk about gun control after a mass shooting? With 129 within three months, it better be a short window. There have been more mass shootings than days which would mean we can never talk about it.
Mass shootings have become a Republican industry.
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I called a goon a “goon” yesterday and it upset him.
I enjoy reading the comments my cartoons get at GoComics but I don’t always interact with the readers there. But sometimes I’ll see a comment that I feel needs addressing. Yesterday, one of the right-wingers suggested a topic that fit his narrative, like that’s what I’m here for. I don’t see these guys telling the Boks, Varvels, and Lesters to draw on gun control, equal rights, Black Lives Matter, or women’s rights. Maybe someone should suggest a cartoon about climate change to Ben Garrison.
But this reader suggested a draw a cartoon that would feed his narrative, something he obviously saw while watching Tucker. I replied that it’s funny he found that to be an important issue while totally ignoring the mass shooting on Monday night that occurred at Michigan State University which resulted in three deaths from the killer. I also told him that I don’t take suggestions from goons.
He was upset at being called a goon and that he was flagging my reply, and what happened at Michigan State was “just another mass shooting.” I let him know that referring to what happened at Michigan State as “just another mass shooting” is why he gets called a “goon.”
Goons don’t care about mass shootings. They’d rather we ignore them.
Since the shooting on Monday night, Lauren Boebert has tweeted about a toxic chemical spill (while not proposing heavier regulations or punishment for corporations who create these spills), attacks on Pete Buttigieg, that it is OK to flash your penis at teenage girls in bowling alleys, Joe Biden, and spy balloons, but nothing about the shooting.
Since the shooting on Monday night, Marjorie Taylor Greene has tweeted about the chemical spill (while not proposing heavier regulations or punishment for corporations who create these spills), Hunter Biden, her white coat, the likelihood of being hit in the face with a banjo in her district, Jesus, but nothing about the shooting.
Since the shooting on Monday night, Ted Cruz has tweeted about Buttigieg, the chemical spill (while not proposing heavier regulations or punishment for corporations who create these spills), the border, his love for shoegaze, and big tech censoring free speech, yet no tweets about the shooting.
Since the shooting on Monday night, Jim “Gym” Jordan has tweeted about the chemical spill (while not proposing heavier regulations or punishment for corporations who create these spills), the border, big tech censorship, how much he hates it when he gets a run in his pantyhose, and a ton of tweets about balloons, but none about the shooting.
Since the shooting on Monday night, Matt Gaetz has tweeted about the chemical spill (while not proposing heavier regulations or punishment for corporations who create these spills), Elon Musk, hating that we are sending aid to Ukraine, the difficulty in finding extra-small condoms, big tech censorship, but nothing about the shooting.
I believe I research my subjects more than most cartoonists do, and for this blog…but I did make up one tweet for each of those MAGAts mentioned. See if you can find them.
The film “Don’t Look Up” is a metaphor for how right-wingers, conservatives, MAGAts, and your run-of-the-mill pigfuckers ignore science, facts, and impending doom if it’s something they don’t want to hear. As a meteor hurtles toward Earth that’ll destroy all life on the planet, the Republican response is simply, don’t look up. It’s a great metaphor after the coronavirus pandemic.
When it comes to science, Republicans don’t want us to “look up.” But now, they do want us to look up and see all the UFOs invading our airspace, but whatever you do…don’t look down. If you look down, you might see all the bodies from mass shootings. Republicans would rather look up than see those bodies or find solutions for mass shootings beyond “thoughts and prayers.” It’s why people like Jim “Gym” Jordan keep asking about spy balloons.
The day after the shooting inside a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas that left 25 dead in 2017, I read a post from a MAGAt cartoonist proclaiming it’s why we need stricter immigration policies, or maybe just ban all immigration. The shooter wasn’t an immigrant. He was a white guy born and bred right here in the good ole U.S. of A. He was a Texan.
I also looked at the official NRA Twitter account. Did you know the NRA describes itself as a “civil rights” organization? I know! Get the fuck out of here. Since the shooting on Monday night, the NRA has tweeted about new guns for 2023, President Biden “coming for your guns,” more gun reviews, how not to blow your dick off while fucking an uzi, and the University of Tennessee’s rifle program, but nothing the shooting.
Don’t look up. Don’t look down. Just don’t look.
Music note: I listened to a few tunes by Lenny Kravitz but spent most of my time drawing and coloring this while watching CNN and Nikki Haley’s presidential announcement.
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Signed prints: The signed prints are just $40.00 each. Every cartoon on this site is available. You can pay through PayPal. If you don’t like PayPal, you can snail mail it to Clay Jones, P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402. I can mail the prints directly to you or if you’re purchasing as a gift, directly to the person you’re gifting.
Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.
Tip Jar: if you want to support the cartoonist, please send a donation through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com. You can also snail it to P.O. Box 3721, Fredericksburg, VA 22402.
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