Crossing Guard

After last week's so-called press conference convened by NRA president Wayne LaPierre, the point man for American guns-at-any-cost madness insisted that the way to make America safe from mass shooters was to clean up Hollywood, fix the scourge of violent video games, and put armed guards at every school in the country.

Fair enough. Here's what Wayne's world might might look like:

This is just a rough sketch, but I wanted to get it on display in case I don't ink it up. ©2012 John de Rosier

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"

The devastating shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut prompted some of the usual responses from the gun lobby and their supporters. Among them, the nearly cliche' notion that "guns don't kill people, people kill people."

In response to that response, I drew a cartoon that assumed a world where this nonsense would be accepted as unquestioned fact. If the gun folks were right on this, then surely soldiers would be just as likely to choose, say, a candlestick (remember the board game "Clue"?) as they would a combat rifle.

©2012 John de Rosier

Because, after all, a candlestick is just another object that could be used to kill people.