Professional doodlers lead the “NRA=Sniper”campaign

www.cagle.com ^ | 10/11/02

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Believe it or not, this one’s from one of Cuba’s non-imprisoned political commentators:

Stalin himself couldn’t have rousted his propagandists faster than these mono-thought “artists” have swung into action. This one’s gonna be rough.

[Freemyland]

Yep. Just like the libs were successful in characterizing semiautomatic rifles as "assault rifle", they will now try to characterize bolt action rifles as "sniper rifles."

[Sender]

Seeing these, I just had to check the local Atlanta rag for comrade Luckovich's cartoon. Guess what.

[mvpel]

Everyone!

Please save complete copies of the newspapers where these hate-mongering cartoons appear! Instead of "hoping," I'm starting to do the research to file a series of defamation lawsuits against Daryl Cagle, Slate, the Arizona Republic, and whoever else publishes this crap, as an NRA member.

According to this page, one of the common-law categories of defamatory words is to "accuse another of associating with criminals or others of unsavory character."

If you want to stay in touch with me on this, please e-mail or FreepMail me - maybe we can make it a class-action lawsuit of NRA members. It's time these people were brought to justice.

[Freedom2specul8]

SAAM!!!

SecondAmendment Alert Meter: On Red!

[Freedom2specul8]

Do you think it's time for the NRA and its compadres to respond?

I know I'm speaking to the choir...but to equate criminal behaviour with law abiding citizens is SICK. It's like saying "Well, he's a man, he must have did it"..

how many of those op-ed articles are men?

DUH

[Freedom2specul8]

Oops, articles = ARTISTS. (Well, so called artists/cartoonists)

[Freedom2specul8]

I don't know, but I think your cartoonist wins the Biggest Dummy Award.

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Another cutting-edge, original-thinker weighs in.

They're like carrion-sniffing vultures.

You'd think one of them might have the intellectual curiousity to ask himself why this person is shooting up one of the least armed sections of the nation.

The gun-toters in Montana aren't under seige.

[mvpel]

If the NRA won't respond with a defamation lawsuit as an organization, I plan to do whatever I can to respond myself. I'm sick and tired of being the editorial cartoonist's whipping boy as an NRA member, and I'm not going to put up with it anymore. I've never filed a lawsuit before, so heck, it might be a good learning experience.

[NEWwoman]

Thanks for the post. This defamation is infuriating. Legal gun owners and NRA members (who can't be felons) are the discriminated "minorities" of the 21st Century. We need a civil rights movement.

[Freedom2specul8]

I got into a big debate with a couple of freshmen in college outside the nra convention when it was in kcmo. They got on tv later of course.

They acted like the NRA members were nothing but "hunters". I told them that the nra members are their teachers, neighbors, pastors, ministers, uncles, brothers, cousins, retired neighborhood folks..their mouths just dropped.

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So far, we don't know that any bystander was in a position to do anything before or after any of the shots.

That could change with the next attempt, and I'd rather that citizen be armed with more than an umbrella.

The fact that the shooter knows that it is unlikely that he will be stumbled upon by an armed citizen in these suburbs might be exactly why this location was chosen.

How would additional gun laws have prevented any of these deaths? Do you think the shooter could actually be a law-abiding citizen, who is only exploiting some overlooked loophole in our "don't murder" laws?

[NEWwoman]

How would additional gun laws have prevented any of these deaths? Do you think the shooter could actually be a law-abiding citizen, who is only exploiting some overlooked loophole in our "don't murder" laws?

These are such obvious questions with obvious answers. It amazes me how blind the gun control crowd is. Or worse, they are pushing another agenda.

[NerdDad]

I've seen this point made on several of these sniper threads. He is shooting in an area where it is very unlikely that he might be shot himself.

I told my boss yesterday, try that crap in Tuscaloosa AL or Austin TX and the tree blinds start going up in neighborhoods after the second or third shot. An armed and alert citizenry would put a stop to this very quickly. The leftist cartoonists have it exactly backward (as usual). If there were more NRA members in the MD-DC-DE-VA area the citizens could put a stop to this much easier than the armed react-after-the-fact report-takers (police).

[El Gato]

I dunno, all those unarmed people with the target rings painted on them seems right on to me. The only inaccurate part of that is one, is that they'd probably be hugging the NRA guy/rifleman and/or trying to hide behind him.

Somebody, with talent unlike moi, should make up a 3 or 4 panel cartoon with people coming into a gun shop with the target's on, then leaving with guns, no target and a big predatory grin on their faces as they leave.

[El Gato]

How would any of the victims or bystanders prevented anything if they were armed? Or how would they have stopped the sniper in the first place if they were armed?

They could have prevented the next shooting. Enough people apparently heard and saw today's shooting that had several of them been armed, the police at least would have been looking for a vehicle with holes in it. That would have been a bit tougher to explain away, don't you think. Best case would have been actually getting one or more of the perps. That's the way the Israelies handle Pali snipers. The Israelies' getting a Pali sniper isn't spectacular or unusual enough to make the newspaper, probably not even in Israel, except maybe on page B-43.

[Caipirabob]

The hell it's just gotten rough. These gun-grabbing bastards can stay hiding under their beds all they want. Real Americans will remain armed and ready.

[Caipirabob]

LOL! Sorry, not that this was a flame. I'm just frustrated. You know how it is...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I'm stating that in an anti gun state, the sniper doesn't have to worry too much about that part in his planning. He only has to concern himself with the possibility of police stopping him, not armed citizens.