I frankly don't care about balance in this collection of editorial cartoons

[n2doc]

Replace “Movie Theater” With “School”…

[ZombieHorde]

1. Kick. nt

[a la izquierda]

2. Chilling, but thank you for posting.

[99Forever]

3. Perhaps, the most important collecton you have ever done, N2Doc.

Thank you.

[Coyotl]

62. Agreed. Here is one that belongs with the others.

[planetc]

4. Balance is not needed on this subject. Justice is what's called for. Good collection. nt

[jillan]

5. Omg ---- sometimes a picture really is worth 1000 words.

[ellisonz]

6. Painful...

[gateley]

7. Profound, n2doc. Thank you. nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. It must have been hard to put this collection together

But thank you for doing it.

[n2doc]

25. I had to stop a couple of times

This whole thing really has overwhelmed me. I was in the audience watching my Daughter sing in a Holiday pageant in her school about the time this happened.

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. Anyone would be appalled, but I believe parents are especially

overwhelmed, as you say. I sure was. There have been a few "oh god" moments as we waited to hear about our kids' safety as they grew up, but nothing like this. I saw the the lingering emptiness and hidden pain of loosing a child in my parents...
I pray we never have to find out for ourselves.


P.S. Your postings of toons really really do fill a deep need for understanding events from cartoonists' unique perspective. Thanks for your efforts, as always.

[2naSalit]

9. The awful truth usally isn't balanced anyway...

That LaPierre spot needs to go viral, even printed on shirts for protests that are sure to come.

[Turn CO Blue]

10. very hardhitting n/t

[DeSwiss]

11. K&R

Tweet from Friday, 12/14/2012:



- Well, your 1,700,000 FB likes divided by 310,000,000 Americans equals 0.0054838709677419354838709677419355%. Which is another way of saying 0.99451612903225806451612903225806% of Americans have never liked you.

Asshole.

[abelenkpe]

12. K&R my

[valerief]

13. Great collection. nt

[GoCubsGo]

14. They all hit the spot.

To a tee.

[madokie]

15. This one tears me up

Posting this reply as I wipe the tears
Taking solace in knowing I'm not one of the gun nuts

[CherokeeDem]

16. I am truly amazed...

At the capacity of editorial cartoonists to capture the essence of the pain and sorrow that we all feel.

This is a heartbreaking collection that speaks the truth.

Thanks....

[WinkyDink]

17. The "flag" is brilliant.

[me b zola]

18. Recommended

[OhioChick]

19. This one got me this morning

http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf/2012/12/sandy_hook_horror_editorial_ca.html#incart_river_default

[asjr]

20. I honestly thought I could not

cry anymore but I did. The one with LaPierre should be made larger and posted all over Newtown. I am so tired of the party of mean taking over our country. They allow their allies to do and say anything they want.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. thank you for thse

n2doc.

Very powerful.

The "lord make it stop" one is so typically wrongheaded....the "lord" isn't going to do anything.

It is people who must make it stop.

Gun control, NO to money=lobbyists, care for the mentally ill.....


The guy cutting up his RA membership card really got me...and the kid on Santa's lap.

I feel numb

[oberle]

28. Nothing fails

like prayer.

[aquart]

52. Speak for yourself.

[Walk away]

71. Prayer is like rock soup. It only works if you do something to make it so.

Even an Atheist like me knows that.

[union_maid]

22. Some of those are heartbreaking

Really important statements, every one of them.

[davidpdx]

23. The gun violence wins

is the one I've saved to put on Facebook. I have quite a few friends that will share it.

[forestpath]

24. They are all equally powerful...so in that way they are balanced!

[MotherPetrie]

26. K&R

[Aristus]

27. Yeah, the guy cutting up his NRA card? Don't see that happening.

These guys would renounce God before giving up their guns...

[bongbong]

31. It's a mental illness

"I NEED that gun, because without it I'm too scared to get out from hiding under my bed!"

[Skittles]

45. you don't have to give up your guns to give up the fucking NRA

[Chorophyll]

48. But you should give up both. Thanks. nt

[bongbong]

29. The last one

Hits the spot in the rational side of my brain.

All of them hit the emotional spot.

The bloody-handed LaPierre one makes me hope at least ONE reporter has the cajones to ask tough questions of both the NRA scum & of pro-gun politicians.

[WillyT]

30. Huge K & R !!!

[Lifelong Protester]

32. The one with Uncle Sam in the little chair

I mean, all of them make me want to cry, and I am tearing up here, but as a teacher and principal, I see that image of the little chair and it is too much.

But thank you, these are powerful. We need to look.

[malaise]

33. Freaking wow!!

Every gun nut should see these

[Bozita]

35. !

[AngryOldDem]

63. Would it make any difference with most of them?

I'm sorry I sound so cynical. And I would hope that the slaughter of 20 kids and 6 adults would finally be the tipping point in the gun debate. But I think we all know what their rebuttal is: Guns don't kill guns, people do; if only someone there in the school had a gun; etc., etc., etc. They are so brainwashed by their own obsession with weapons that I doubt anything will penetrate that sickness.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

34. Well done.

Painful to look at, but makes one hell of a necessary point.

K&R

[Ash_F]

36. Last one is on point /nt

[Heathen57]

37. K&R

Very on topic especially the one with LaPierre with blood on his hands.

[SoCalDem]

38. I think they are spot-on

Cartoonists usually cut to the chase...they did it again.

[Lizzie Poppet]

39. This one got to me:

[laundry_queen]

69. :( I can't stand this. gonna go hug my babies. nt

[Cha]

40. Thanks n2doc..

[reformist2]

41. Some of those last ones are pretty potent... a real movement is beginning.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

42. Bravo!

[heaven05]

44. excellent

[ajk2821]

46. If I had the money,

I would hire as many people as I could to follow the folks in charge of the NRA and have them chant "Hey, Hey, NRA, how many kids have you killed today?"

[Chorophyll]

47. KICK.

AND YES, I'M YELLING.

[Tab]

49. You just needed to post the last one

That's the one that spells it out.

[Wraith20878]

50. Not going to lie, alot of these got to me

Thought I'd post this one, because it was the first one I thought of after hearing what happened.

[Hekate]

51. Kick and Rec

Thanks.....

[Uncle Joe]

53. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, n2doc.

[mountain grammy]

54. powerful and heartbreaking. We're not talking about guns here

we're talking about weapons of mass destruction. Weapons capable of firing 100 rounds in just a few minutes. Weapons that don't belong in civilian society or in the hands of civilians. These weapons must be banned, illegal to own or purchase by the civilian population. If we don't start controlling weapons, everyone might just as well own a nuclear bomb. After all bombs don't kill people...........

[tavalon]

55. No need for balance

This is the horror story of the week. May it force some changes in gun laws. It's past time for them.

[leftlibdem420]

56. I can't even laugh, I'm so angry.

People who have a serious respect for guns, the power they have, and the damage they can do need to stop listening to the lunatics who claim to speak for them.

[Paladin]

57. K&R. (nt)

[Gothmog]

58. Thank you for posting

[KansDem]

59. This one struck home for me

[No Vested Interest]

73. Me too

Eyes watered a little.

[morningfog]

60. Great collection. Heart wrenching.

[myrna minx]

61. .

[A Simple Game]

64. Thank you for the toons and don't take it personal when I say

that this is not a good batch of cartoons.

They are not good toons but they are necessary, we can no longer let the other side silence us by saying it is too soon to talk about it. It is never too soon for them to become defensive.

[KG]

65. i don't either..

[Scruffy Rumbler]

66. Thank you.....

[Doctor_J]

67. No metion of Hate Radio & Fox "News"

even to toonists are afraid of them

[n2doc]

68. one was posted yesterday

[SummerSnow]

70. Guy at work...

Told my husband he was going to buy a .50 caliber gun.So my husband asked him why.He said cause he just wants it. He already own several.What's scary he has a bad temper and goes into rages over petty things.

[CrispyQ]

72. A sad kick. --nt

[barbtries]

74. me either.

the one i put on my fb page - guy cutting his nra card in half.

[VPStoltz]

75. I have a question for the pro-gun fanatics...

So, really, your supposed RIGHT to own and use a gun any old way you want, when you want, and on whom you want, trumps the LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS of a 6 year old?

[uponit7771]

76. +1!

[Fire Walk With Me]

77. K&R

[B Stieg]

78. I'd like to see one of a child...

...prying the gun out of Charleton Heston's "cold, dead hand."