Editorial cartoons are very specific — they respond and react to current events. But what struck me this week as I watched cartoonists share their work on Twitter, was that it was sometimes hard to distinguish which cartoons were drawn in reaction to the Uvalde massacre this week, and which were responding to to previous mass shootings.
The deathly chill that came over me when I realized that most editorial cartoons about gun violence in America are evergreen…
By Daniel Miyares, via TwitterBy Matt DaviesBy Marc MurphyBy Clay JonesBy Michael deAdderBy John Buss, aka Repeat1968By Clay JonesBy Mike LuckovichBy Pat BagleyBy Andy Marlette (2018)By Dave WhamondBy Ann TelnaesBy Rod EmmersonBy Christopher WeyantBy Mike LuckovichBy Adam ZyglisBy Rob RogersBy Ed HallBy GarrixBy Randy BishBy Phil Hands (2021)By Nick AndersonBy Darrin BellBy Marc Murphy (2012)
Some of these brought tears to my eyes. Some of them made my disgust and anger increase. And all of them showed the proof that the we must take action. Get everyone to the polls in November. If they’re no longer in office, their power is gone. Let’s go BLUE 💙.
The moral “high ground” for Repuglycans, “It’s not our fault! We didn’t pull the trigger!”
The moral ttuth: Republicans supplied the triggers so that they could be pulled!
Despite the incidents with excessive use of firearms in the States, gun control laws aren’t, passed, because, of these, Second Amendment right supporters, and, there’s nothing that can be done about it, unless, the shootings happens to the families of, Republican, lawmakers, then, let’s see, if, the GOP still, vouches for the right to, bear, arms.
Some of these brought tears to my eyes. Some of them made my disgust and anger increase. And all of them showed the proof that the we must take action. Get everyone to the polls in November. If they’re no longer in office, their power is gone. Let’s go BLUE 💙.
The moral “high ground” for Repuglycans, “It’s not our fault! We didn’t pull the trigger!”
The moral ttuth: Republicans supplied the triggers so that they could be pulled!
Vote BLUE!
The GOP is a fascist death cult. Period. Full stop.
Despite the incidents with excessive use of firearms in the States, gun control laws aren’t, passed, because, of these, Second Amendment right supporters, and, there’s nothing that can be done about it, unless, the shootings happens to the families of, Republican, lawmakers, then, let’s see, if, the GOP still, vouches for the right to, bear, arms.
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R) was shot while playing a Congressional baseball game … and they still won’t do a thing about gun control.
Yeah, until, it’s the, closest next-of-kin of the higher up of the Republican Party that got shot, they won’t, feel, a single, thing…