Comments on: This Week’s Cartoon: “Off-Target” http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/this-weeks-cartoon-off-target/ COMMENTARY BY CARTOONIST JEN SORENSEN Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Justin http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/this-weeks-cartoon-off-target/comment-page-1/#comment-2076 Justin Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:45:55 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=906#comment-2076 Unlike the news, Miss Soren, you hit the nail right on the head. Unlike the news, Miss Soren, you hit the nail right on the head.

]]> By: Roger Bloyce http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2012/07/this-weeks-cartoon-off-target/comment-page-1/#comment-2074 Roger Bloyce Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:32:22 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=906#comment-2074 Whenever the mass media focus on a shooting, nothing gets past the corporate censors to tell us the names of the gun makers’ CEOs, their board members, their lobby contacts, the names of such NRA executives as its president (David Keene) and is executive vice president (Wayne LaPierre), the names of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) officials who draft pro-gun laws for state legislators, the names of these legislators and the names of the murder area legislators, federal and state, together with the amounts of "campaign contributions" they have received from gun groups. All of these individuals are far more responsible for our daily gun deaths, running currently more than 84 a day, or roughly four times the rate of the world’s other 22 developed nations combined. Whenever the mass media focus on a shooting, nothing gets past the corporate censors to tell us the names of the gun makers’ CEOs, their board members, their lobby contacts, the names of such NRA executives as its president (David Keene) and is executive vice president (Wayne LaPierre), the names of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) officials who draft pro-gun laws for state legislators, the names of these legislators and the names of the murder area legislators, federal and state, together with the amounts of “campaign contributions” they have received from gun groups.

All of these individuals are far more responsible for our daily gun deaths, running currently more than 84 a day, or roughly four times the rate of the world’s other 22 developed nations combined.

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