The New Yorker's cover hits hard this week.

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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2015-12-14



What would it look like if I took America’s obsession with firearms to its logical extreme?” says the artist Eric Drooker about his New Yorker cover for the issue dated December 14, 2015. The proliferation of guns and the too-easy access to military-grade weapons is not the only story in San Bernardino, but it’s an appalling part of it. As John Cassidy points out in a recent essay, there are an estimated three hundred million guns in private hands in the U.S., and gun sales soared on Black Friday. And somehow, despite the growing demand for restrictions and background checks, the sales go on and, with them, the daily shootings. If only Eric Drooker’s image were a fiction.

[busterbrown]

1. Perfect!!!

$7.99 wow...Greatest cartoon jokes ever... Great pieces... Still worth it..

Back in the 70s? 2.25...

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4. You can subscribe right now at $1.00 a week for both online and print.

https://subscribe.newyorker.com/subscribe/newyorker/99024?source=google_sem_holiday

Looks like a holiday special.

[busterbrown]

18. Thanks for the info...n/t

[elias49]

2. The New Yorker DOES do some great covers.

I'll never forget the cover showing Pres Obama spoon feeding medicine from a bottle to the republican leadership. THAT was priceless!

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13. That was great and told it like it was.

[rurallib]

3. Surprised that couple doesn't have a baby in the cart

[lastlib]

5. ...playing with a pistol........

[sinkingfeeling]

6. According to this morning's 'news', there's been a tremendous uptick in gun sales this week. So this

is what America looks like.

[AngryOldDem]

8. Gun stores are selling out. Over an hour's wait for permits at some places.

"Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland," as Paul Simon sings.

And I honestly don't know what Obama can do to make this any better, since most people buying up the hardware probably don't believe a thing he says anyway. They'd rather listen to that all-knowing and all-powerful Donald Trump.

I knew the craziness was coming, but I thought it would get here long after I shuffled off this mortal coil.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Ditto for me. But the media and all made such a big deal over the amount of ammo and guns the

SB shooters had. My thoughts were I've probably got 10 neighbors with triple that stashed in their houses.

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10. The crazy is strong in America today.

[llmart]

16. I feel the same way you do....

I used to tell myself that at least I don't have that many more years to see the country devolve into this nuttiness, but alas, I've witnessed more than I ever thought I would. And now I have a grandchild and it makes everything worse for me thinking of what kind of world she's entering. My only hope is that the younger generations will turn this gun nuttery around and be courageous enough to maybe revise the 2nd amendment and enact stricter laws.

[Logical]

11. Many Gun nuts are paranoid. Any talk of gun control makes them buy more guns. nt

[jmg257]

12. Yep. Plenty of 1st time buyers too.

Not all white, no grenades of course, but way more interest in shotguns and pistols then hunting rifles.

[octoberlib]

7. Shopping for milk and weapons of war.

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17. Yes. As mentioned upthread, all that's missing is a baby playing with a Glock.

[cantbeserious]

14. This Citizen Notes That An Already Depraved Nation Has Accomplished The Impossible

Become even more depraved.

[librechik]

15. Marco Rubio out shopping

AIR?

[Califonz]

19. At least they remembered to buy milk

I always forget. Maybe because it's always WAAAAAAAAY in the back of the store.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I just had a conversation w/ an Uber driver here in Boston

about guns. He was Jamaican by birth, but appalled by the gun violence in this country. Of course I completely agreed with him and he was very anti-republican!! It was a nice conversation and we also chatted a bit about medical marijuana. So that was the highlight of my day.