Cartoon of the Week - No. 6

Welcome back Cartoon of the Week, brought to us this week by Frazz. Frazz is a bit of a do-gooder and moraliser: afraid of getting a real job, he's a deluded singer songwriter and bad poet, living off his his attractive teacher wife/girlfriend. Hmm, that reminds me of someone...


This cartoon reminded me of a kind of scary blog that I was sent to. It was basically gun toting neo-con with pictures of Bush, bullets hitting stuff, etc etc. A lot of posts were dedicated to the second amendment to the US Constitution, the one that states that every person has the right to bear arms. As in guns, not appendages, obviously.

Around the time I came across it, the blog was enthusiastically promoting National Ammo Day - a day each year where people make a point of going to their local ammo supplier and emptying the shelves of all the bullets. Apparently this isn't crazy, but a way to show their support for their right to bear arms. As the website explains it is a BUYcott - the opposite of a boycott. See what they did there?

See the problem is, as the website points out, we only ever hear about the bad news related with guns, but never the good news. Um, what good news could there be? Well www.ammoday.com wonders why newspapers don't carry the story Gun not used to shoot person today? Good point.