Guns!

Saw this comic by conservative cartoonist Chuck Asay during my daily editorial comics trawling. It's a "new" "spin" on the old NRA slogan that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." I'd just like to say that Chuck is entirely right. Guns, sitting, unloaded, on a shelf, locked away, cause no one any harm. You may also note that most gun laws are not directed at the guns themselves. I've never seen a legislature pass a law that says guns must drink from a different drinking fountain, or that they must walk in the gutter rather than on the sidewalk. No, most gun laws are designed to keep hands out of people who cannot be trusted to handle firearms responsibly. How can you tell a person cannot be trusted to handle firearms responsibly? Well the first sign is that this person is attempting to purchase a firearm.

Remember, kids: Automatic Assault Rifles Don't Kill People. Automatic Assault Rifle Owners Kill People.

You think it doesn't effect you?

If you think the environment doesn't effect you... you're in for an awful shock. Buffalo Mozzarella from Campania has been contaminated by illegal toxic dumping. Our cheese, man! They're getting our cheese!

Seriously, though, this isn't something happening in a pre-industrial country, it's not something that only effects the school children living in some one else's neighborhood. Cutting corners on the environment effects food. It effects the economy. It effects the trendy Italian Bistros that global warming deniers take their trophy wives to on their anniversaries.