Universal gun ownership would go a long way toward preventing people who are bigger than you from taking what they want. Then again, I’ve never lost the money in my bank account because the bank was robbed by outlaws.
universal gun ownership… imagine “hands across america” but instead of hand-holding it’s just everyone has a gun pointed at the next person until the last person has his pointed at the first.
like the wild west version of mutually assured destruction. then, everyone has to replace handguns with uzis, and uzis with rocket launchers. finally results in arms deproliferation when everyone has their own “scud missile” pointed at the neighbors. or maybe not, but fun idea for a comic. or bob the angry flower did it already.
MAD only works if the other guy is rational. People mad with grief or rage, or those genuinely insane, are not rational. Road rage is an argument AGAINST universal gun ownership.
Also, if you think society _today_ is about the bigger and stronger taking what they want, compare it to any other time in human history.
“Universal gun ownership” sigh. I never understand why so many people worship guns. I mean, I actually own a gun, I occasionally use it for hunting, but I don’t see it as anything other than a very dangerous tool. Why do you people want to give it to everyone from an infant to that drooling madman yelling slurs in the street corner? While I am most certainly not principlied enough that I could say for sure that I wouldn’t use it against a human, I still think that most of us have rather high treshold before resorting to that, and so the worst, most trigger happy people would be in power. Or is that exactly what you people wish for?
Ah, yeah great idea. Instead of nasty intrusive government enforcing laws to protect us, just give everyone guns to protect themselves. I can’t see any way that that could be bad.
After all, the best shots are always good guys, right?
November 21, 2008
Mmm… cake – er, I mean, comments…
November 22, 2008
Work birthdays! Casual Fridays! C&G strip commentsss!!!
November 23, 2008
I kind of liked it better without comments. I don’t want this to become like Achewood!
November 23, 2008
wow, comments!
November 24, 2008
T-Shirt Suggestion: You will not best me in a contest of Pedantry.
November 24, 2008
I hate change.
November 24, 2008
I think that the new site is excellent and am glad to now be able to comment!
November 26, 2008
you all are wrong!!!
November 29, 2008
I could set the building on fire.
December 6, 2008
New numbering destroys my bookmarked best comic list!
January 9, 2009
UNDERMINED
February 9, 2009
Universal gun ownership would go a long way toward preventing people who are bigger than you from taking what they want. Then again, I’ve never lost the money in my bank account because the bank was robbed by outlaws.
Just sayin’.
May 24, 2009
universal gun ownership… imagine “hands across america” but instead of hand-holding it’s just everyone has a gun pointed at the next person until the last person has his pointed at the first.
like the wild west version of mutually assured destruction. then, everyone has to replace handguns with uzis, and uzis with rocket launchers. finally results in arms deproliferation when everyone has their own “scud missile” pointed at the neighbors. or maybe not, but fun idea for a comic. or bob the angry flower did it already.
May 24, 2009
…universal car ownership could be good for eliminating road rage!
November 16, 2009
I don’t know if I will continue to read the comments. I like the older comics because fewer people were commenting, but we will see.
March 2, 2011
MAD only works if the other guy is rational. People mad with grief or rage, or those genuinely insane, are not rational. Road rage is an argument AGAINST universal gun ownership.
Also, if you think society _today_ is about the bigger and stronger taking what they want, compare it to any other time in human history.
January 21, 2016
“Universal gun ownership” sigh. I never understand why so many people worship guns. I mean, I actually own a gun, I occasionally use it for hunting, but I don’t see it as anything other than a very dangerous tool. Why do you people want to give it to everyone from an infant to that drooling madman yelling slurs in the street corner? While I am most certainly not principlied enough that I could say for sure that I wouldn’t use it against a human, I still think that most of us have rather high treshold before resorting to that, and so the worst, most trigger happy people would be in power. Or is that exactly what you people wish for?
February 23, 2017
Ah, yeah great idea. Instead of nasty intrusive government enforcing laws to protect us, just give everyone guns to protect themselves. I can’t see any way that that could be bad.
After all, the best shots are always good guys, right?