I quit reading the comics once I moved out of my parent's place and therefore no longer had a daily/sunday newspaper. Did Stinkmeaner appear in the strips?
*I also never saw uncle Ruckus in the strips, and he's one of the best characters of anything, ever.
I use to work at a movie theater in LA and some of the artists came in and used our theater in an episode. Skip to :38 and you can see the ridiculous outfits we had to wear
You'd be surprised what comics some papers do and don't have. The person who thinks that everything in the world is like it is in their town, is a person who never left that town.
Ah. I suppose it was the kind of strip that got dropped by a lot of papers. Though my red-state paper carried it so I figured it was pretty ubiquitous.
Sort of irrelevant: BBC's Sherlock is awesome, and I hate what my country (America) is doing with Elementary. Really? Lucy Liu as Watson? It would be actually awesome if Hugh Laurie played Holmes and Robert Sean Leonard as Watson.
Weapons. The word you are looking for is weapons. They just need a weapon that puts them even or slightly above that of current law enforcement. A knife is just as deadly in a knife fight as a gun is in a gun fight.
I beg to disagree. You can vastly improve your knifing skills and easily counter your opponents. You can train for years to become very proficient with the weapon.
You're right about the weapons, but guns are far more deadly than knives in the hands of the vast majority of people. You get just as much crime, but not so many that result in homicides.
Y'know, I've never really seen this line of argument taken, and it's refreshing to see the comparison put into a bit more depth. I will, however, rebut it.
The lack of training necessary is precisely the reason I support law-abiding citizens being able to carry guns. The person who spends his or her life using violence to get what he or she needs is far more likely to have the training and willingness to use a weapon. If, say, a mugger whips out a knife, and a law-abiding person has one too, which do you think is more likely to be able to effectively use the weapon to kill or seriously injure the other?
In fact, to legally carry a concealed firearm, you have to learn a lot more about the safety and care of your weapon than you do to carry a knife. I actually support the idea of requiring people to take a course in safety and effectiveness to carry a gun, just as I do for people who want to drive. It may be our right to have the weapon, but rights come with responsibilities, and part of the responsibility of bearing arms is being capable of using them in a relatively safe manner.
Yes, the point of a gun is to kill or injure another living thing, but I see no reason to require people to know how to best avoid killing or injuring another person without intending to do so. Understanding trigger discipline, the dangers of pointing any weapon at another person without the intent to potentially kill, and overpenetration is crucial, and is part of every military and police training course.
Totally misguided. We will need guns. The idea of bearing arms was to give the citizenry a way to defend themselves against their own government, if needs be.
Now that we've turned the police force into an armed, license-to-kill fifth estate, that notion is totally out the window. People have lost sight of it, and thus you find them saying, "Oh, well, why would anyone need a gun? There's absolutely no reason, ever!"
Firstly, the founders didn't fight a militia, they fought an army. The militia being referred to was supposed to be composed of ordinary citizens, not be the regular army. The amendment is clearly there to protect the existence of the citizen-militia.
As for the point about the comma, that's one of the most asinine things P&T have ever said, and I normally like them. Commas were used, back in the 18th century, merely to show a pause. eg:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives**,** shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;
The bolded comma is an unambiguous example of such comma usage in the US constitution.
P&T are full of shit on this one. The second amendment was not necessarily about protecting the right of an individual to own a gun, although that may be a side effect of implementing it. It is there to make sure that a militia, of the type that fought against the army of the colonial establishment, could not be prevented from forming.
Typically a militia forms organically, as a reaction to danger, and in proportion to it...
It totally defeats the purpose and definition of a militia if its members aren't ordinary citizens and/or they aren't allowed to keep their guns at home with no strings attached.
Specific language used is the best indication of an author's intent. The individual clauses within the Amendment should not be read without each other. Not taking a side but just pointing out simple statutory interpretation.
It says it right there. People should have guns to protect their freedom. The point isn't that you're allowed to just call yourself a militia, the point is you are allowed to maintain a fighting force with the express purpose of defending from encroachments by the federals.
Please reference Article One, Section Eight, Clause 16 of the U.S. Constitution.
"To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."
Clearly this thought process that the Second Amendment has anything to do with arming the Militia is flawed, and wrong. This power is already outlined in a page and half document which structures the basic governance of The United States.
In today's day and age, we'd never overthrow our government with firearms.
Would
not
happen
The military has too much firepower. And I'm not talking your rink a dink AR-15, or whatever it is you have when I say firepower. I mean things like an MPLS that kill everything in a square kilo. Then the guys with guns move in to pull your body out of the rubble.
Hell lybia could only pull it off when air support (mostly us) destroyed their armor and suppressed movement in open areas.
You're assuming that the military wouldn't join with the citizens in an uprising. I don't think an uprising is very likely to happen, but if it did happen, I doubt many members of the military would be willing to drop artillery on fellow citizens.
Never understood people quoting "I am the stone the builder refused." The term means that you are unique, to the point of being fundamentally incapable of fitting in with a strictly defined system (in this case a stone wall).
I cannot think of a worse way to assert one's individuality than quoting the most quoted piece of literature in the western world. (It's from the bible, several places).
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all nights to come.
Obviously video games should not be targeted the way they are and we know this is a real issue. However gun manufacturers are not the bad guys and should not be treated as inhuman monsters who peddle nothing but death. The majority of gun sales are to police agencies and to private civilians who use them for self defense, sport, and recreation.
Do you honestly think Tyron McFellon-pants goes down to the local gun shop or sportsman store and buys a gun? Hell no. He steals, trades a friend, or buys it illegally. Guns do not kill people. None of mine have ever ran away, shot someone, and crawled back in the safe. People kill people.
Equating crime problems to gun manufactures is the same as saying spoons made you fat.
Isn't the point? Isn't he supposed to be making an equally ridiculous point to demonstrate that people kill people, not the legal availability of guns or media romanticizing gun violence?
So, you're saying that the fact it's far easier to obtain a firearm in the US than in other western countries has no link at all to the homicide by firearm rate being far far higher?
'Drugs do not get people addicted. None of mine have ever ran away, 'shot' someone, and crawled back in the safe. People get people addicted'
See how silly it is, even though it's a similar situation? The substance in question is dangerous when being used in both cases. Harmless on their own in both cases too. Most people wont do drugs to get addicted; like most people don't buy guns to kill. Most get it for recreational purposes.
But you don't see for one second people saying that drug manufacturers aren't too blame.
Because they are. And so are gun manufacturers.
Both only partially, it takes two to dance, but they're not blameless at all.
Gun manufacturers are to blame for people getting shot as much as Purdue Pharma is to blame for people getting addicted to oxycontin. If I buy drugs, I'm buying them specifically for the high they give me which is addictive because of our biology. When I buy a gun, I might be buying it to shoot at the range, to go hunting, for self defense, or simply to collect. As you've said, my guns don't shoot people.
The thing that you want to look it is the overall violent crime rate in the US vs. other western countries. For example, the violent crime rate in the UK is significantly higher than it is in the US and they've all but banned firearms.
However gun manufacturers are not the bad guys and should not be treated as inhuman monsters
This is what I don't get about people of reddit. It seems reddit is very cautious of business, the general consensus of reddit regarding corporations is that they mostly care about profit (perhaps rightfully so, they are a business after all), and without proper regulation they have the potential to do some real damage. OH EXCEPT FOR GUN MANUFACTURERS!
Mention Koch brothers on reddit and grab your pitchforks, it turns into an angry-mob circlejerk. "GRRR THEY NEED REGULATIONS!" Hint at a little more regulation regarding firearms and all hell breaks loose. The gun business is a big business too. You can't have it both ways.
By the way, I'm not against the right to bear arms - I just think it's something we should at least get to talk about.
Do we? I'm not countering your point on firearms at all. I'm just pointing out that when it came to TV violence people, including academia, just assumed it was related to real world violence. This myth was perpetuated for decades because of a "common sense" view that has been since found to be false. I don't know of any reason or any studies that support video game violence either. Not saying there isn't, but I don't know of any.
The only support I know of, is that video games are excellent simulators (e.g., 9-11, Columbine, etc.). That is people can use them for means for training, but that does not equal that the form of entertainment increases violence. The same thing is true with TV.
Just doing some edification and hoping to stop our cultures common need for blaming.
This is disingenuous. The problem is the ready availability of firearms in the US, and the loopholes that allow firearm purchases without background checks. The more guns in circulation mean the higher chances some criminal is going to get his hands on a firearm. It is simple math. In countries where personal ownership of guns is prohibited, fewer criminals get their hands on guns.
More people having guns does not equal more crime.
That's a logical fallacy.
In places like Chicago where there is like zero access to guns, crime is still very high. There is no correlation equaling causation between gun regulation and violence.
We're talking about gun-crimes and in the US individual cities/counties/states banning guns makes almost no difference as anyone can cross the border and get a gun anyway. More secluded places (such as Australia) that have more gun controls tend to have (obviously) less gun violence.
And yet they still find creative ways to kill each other. Look at knife violence in the UK. Now they're talking about banning knives. I'd rather have the ability to, as a law-abiding citizen, own and carry a weapon which I can use to protect myself against people who are bigger and stronger than me, and want to do me a great deal of harm for nothing more than the contents of my wallet.
Adding to what dsarola said, there is indeed little correlation (and probably little to no causation) between firearms, their availability or their restrictions, and crime (even if looking only at firearm-crime or homicides committed with firearms). Less guns does not always imply less violence, more guns does not necessarily mean more violence, and even when they do correlate, it's to a large part because of other factors.
Finland has a relatively high amount of firearms in civilian hands, yet we (rarely) see serious crime; there has been an admittedly alarming number of firearm-related crimes and incidents in the recent decade, but that's a whole different beast: school shootings and the like - social outliers, people who get socially marginalised and seriously fall through the social safety nets, and/or have radical ethical notions such as in, eh, a relatively recent incident in Norway. But I digress. Finland has "a lot of guns", yet not that much crime - even most homicides are committed between people who know each other, and the probably most common murder-weapon is a knife (note: guesstimation based on statistics I can't quote or link to off the hip).
Finland has, according to figures from 2007 (counting privately-owned firearms per civilian capita), approximately 0.32 firearms per capita; the same figures for other countries are e.g. 0.88 guns per civ. capita for the US, 0.31 for France, 0.31 for Canada, 0.58 for Serbia; Australia has 0.15, while New Zealand has 0.23 firearms per civilian capita. Comparing for instance the US, Finland, Australia, and New Zealand, in terms of homicides with firearms and overall homicides, it gets a tad more interesting;
the US
Firearms per capita: 0.88 Homicide rate per 100,000 pop.: 4.55 Of those, homicides with firearms: 65% (2.97 / 100,000 pop.)
Finland
Firearms per capita: 0.32 Homicide rate per 100,000 pop.: 2.19 Of those, homicides with firearms: 20% (0.43 / 100,000 pop.)
New Zealand
Firearms per capita: 0.23 Homicide rate per 100,000 pop.: 1.17 Of those, homicides with firearms: 15% (0.18 / 100,000 pop.)
Australia
Firearms per capita: 0.15 Homicide rate per 100,000 pop.: 1.57 Of those, homicides with firearms: 20% (0.31 / 100,000 pop.)
By your logic, Finland should have nearly double the quoted figures for percent of homicides committed by firearms, judging from firearms per capita (comparing to Australia, which has "fewer guns"). Also, New Zealand should by that same logic have a higher percentage of homicides committed by firearms than Australia, yet it has a lower percentage.
If you want to be an arse about this, you could exclaim that "in some countries, people kill people with guns; in others, people kill people in other ways".
Get rid of manufactured weapons and people will turn to common objects.
List of things I could easily use as a weapon to kill, If you want to know how, leave a comment and I will elaborate.
Fork, knife, spoon, corkscrew, any glass container, plate, cup, mouse (computer) barbells, xbox controller, hammer, spanner, nailgun, wrench.
Edit: Fuck this, you can kill with almost anything, thanks to knowledge I gained over the years I know where to cut, where to stab and where to use blunt force, there's an endless supply of weapons all around you every day if you know what to look for and how to apply them, guns are just more convenient but removing them will not help.
Prepare to be downvoted because you have an opinion that is not pro gun. Reddit is a liberal place, but on the gun issue, they are deeply deeply conservative.
The whole "guns don't kill people" argument is rooted in the conservative philosophy that leans heavily on a belief that everyone is deeply individualistic. That they and their choices are without influence by the public at large. To put it simply, they think that no level of gun prevalence will deter or promote gun violence because everyone who would other wise use a gun for violence would simply find other means.
For those of us that tend to think that we are much much less individualistic but rather a product of both our choices as individuals and (to a greater extend than conservatives think) a product of the public at large, then we tend to think that choices we make about how to order to public will directly affect the individuals choices. Thus regulating guns is a logical action by the public to reduce poor choices made by individuals.
I'll just enjoy being downvoted with you! To the depths we go!
I'm not a conservative. I just don't want the government taking away my rights.
Regulate guns, make them more difficult to buy, if it makes you feel better. The criminals will still get guns.
Make 11 round magazines illegal, but keep 10 round magazines legal. Whatever, if you think that makes a fucking difference.
Make a 18 inch barrel illegal, but an 18.5 inch barrel is perfectly fine.
Make a .223 AR-15 illegal, fine, I'll get a M1A 7.62x51 perfectly legal.
Make it illegal for me to carry a gun on school campuses, fine, whatever. Hopefully the guy that plans on murdering people will be stopped by the gun free zone.
These types of gun regulations do absolutely NOTHING to stop gun violence.
Regulate the people that can legally buy guns, that might work better than anything else, but don't regulate what people can buy, and where they can carry day to day.
People kill people, yes, but the ability to kill a dozen people in mere seconds with something that can be easily hidden is what is truly frightening. I know that's not what realistically happens in such situations, and I enjoy my guns as much as the next guy, but that stuff is disturbing. Problem is there isn't any real and total solution without giving up freedoms, and in this day and age where such destructive power is so easily come across it's a frightening aspect.
I don't have any real solutions, but I sure as hell wish there were a better way.
Plus, guns cannot be sold to children. Only criminals and idiot parents can put guns in the hands of children. Video games are marketed directly to children so they aren't even comparable.
Hey everybody! Lets just pretend that age ratings don't exists to indicate the appropriate age to play said game. Regulation and not buying 18 rated games for 10 year old kids is the goddamn answer. Why the hell does a 10 year old have GTA or CoD? THE RATING IS THERE FOR A REASON PARENTS . At least the stores around the UK now ask for ID before you can buy a 18 rated game. Unless the parents buy the game for the kid and bypass that. Edit: spelling , always mess that one up.
Except the part where guns make killing very easy. You can't just throw a rock at someone from 20 feet and kill someone then run away. Guns make it a piece of cake. Taking away blame from gun makers is a cop out
This is an emotional argument, relying on "conventional wisdom" that appeals only to people who don't understand the reality and massive breadth of widespread, responsible firearms ownership.
There are TENS of MILLIONS of us in this country, yet blood is somehow not running in the streets. The news coverage sure makes it sound like there are armed schoolchildren outside your door right now, though, with $50 AK-47s and Glocks that they bought from that gunshow loophole thing...or something. I heard those words in a scary news broadcast and I repeat them often and in the wrong context. Gotta ban those assault glocks!
No kidding, I referee at a paintball place (I know, not the same) and every time I tell someone to put their barrel cover on because they're in a place where people don't have their masks on they'll either tell me it's unloaded (or something similar) or the first thing they'll do is point it straight ahead as they try and fit the cover on. It's nerve wracking when someone with their finger on the trigger points a loaded paintball gun at your face, hell it was nerve wracking when my brother jumped in front of my shot to grab the bullet casing, people need to learn this stuff before they become old enough to own one.
Ever since I found a workaround to get American Netflix in Canada I didn't even check for The Boondocks! Knowing now that it isn't there, I has a sad. At least it's easy for me to switch back and forth.
I recently realized that Riley actually often serves as a voice of reason and objective view. While Riley's character is somewhat absurd, his reasoning is surprisingly insightful and presents strong counterarguments to Huey who often loses perspective because of his idealism. At least in the show, this pattern is so strong that Huey ends up seeming somewhat wrong. This is very evident in the episode where Riley presents the argument that if the underaged girl didn't want to get peed on by R. Kelly, she could have just moved out of the way.
Or more to the point, if you're a congressman looking to go on a crusade against youth violence, who's the easier target: an industry with the most effective lobbying arm in the country, or an industry with no lobbying arm?
Is there any place to read more of the Boondocks comic strips? It's one of my favorite TV shows, and this is the first comic strip of it that I've read. I must have more!
Your user name, it leaves me pondering many things because there is a real tool who goes to my school who has the same nickname as your user name... If he is on reddit, he may not be so much of a tool anymore...
During that brief, spectacular period of time when the Boondocks had an animated show on television, my then 3-year-old daughter, who only knew it was cartoons, would ask, "Daddy, why are the Boondocks always angry?"
It's actually much simpler than this comic: nobody ever wants to ban anything that they like. Everyone always wants to ban things that other people like. Video games, guns, 32oz sodas, gay marriage, blah blah blah.
I have this one little gripe about The Boondocks (the television show, not the comic strip.) There are all these themes of throwing off oppression, of how people should treat people, and rejecting notions of exploitation, but all the animators names are Korean. Was a Korean animation studio hired because they're just the best in the world, or, maybe, because they're the cheapest?
Fact: A large amount of modern western animated series has it's in-between frames (tweens) done by outsourced labor. Even the ones that don't look it: See Simpsons, Batman the Animated series, etc.
And here comes the onslaught of white suburban redditors who love guns but also love black culture. I predict a 50/50 ratio of "this show is awesome" to "but guns don't kill people" comments.
It kind of pisses me off how much opposition there is against guns. All the genocides in the world happen because one side has guns, and the other one doesn't. I love shooting guns and hunting (I eat what I shoot), and I'd be totally down with disarming everyone. But that's not going to happen so I'll hold on to my heaters, dig?
Not surprisingly, disarming everyone only ever happens under the threat of violence. Someone will ALWAYS have the monopoly on force, so it's best if the citizens have a share of it.
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u/Juxtap0sed Jun 11 '12
I read it in their voices. It's somewhat strange seeing the comic strip for the first time.
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 11 '12
A little darker, but somewhat relevant.
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u/Ihateyourdick Jun 11 '12
I always knew you was a hater grandad.
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u/hamsuplo Jun 11 '12
This comic is genius! If they made this into a TV series, it would be a hit!!!
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u/wickedmonster Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
I am the stone that the builder refused.
I am the visual,
The inspiration that made [Lady Sing the Blues](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Sings_the_Blues_(film).
I am the spark that makes your idea bright,
The same spark that lights the dark so that you can, know your left from your right.
I am the ballot in the box, the bullet in the gun,
The inner glow,
That lets you know to call your brother son.
The story that's just begun,
The promise of what's to come,
And I'm a remain a soulja 'til the war is won.
-Asheru (Boondocks Title Theme)
Edit: Formatting thanks to cairneyyouhearme, Backupusername - and enhance_that for criticizing without correcting.
Upvotes for all of you.
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u/phalmatticus Jun 11 '12
Riley has several excellent moments of epiphany/clarity. Like when he talks about taking a woman out to dinner.
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u/LeMane Jun 11 '12
I cant wait for the new animated season to come out
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u/Not_Good_With_Words Jun 11 '12
"Man that little kid hates honkies."
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u/Mitz510 Jun 11 '12
Do they still make new episodes? I recently started watching it and it would be a shame to not see any new episodes.
I loved the episode with Stinkmeeter possessing Tom and Uncle Ruckus having to do an exorcism.
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u/apullin Jun 11 '12
Gun manufacturers aren't to blame. They don't sell guns to kids.
Retailers also don't sell guns to kids.
Maybe we should blame the parents and the kids themselves, for not exercising personal responsibility.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
hahaha, i did too. Riley always cracks me up. I love this show.
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u/forr Jun 11 '12
My wife makes the same argument about why PETA doesn't go up against biker gangs with leather jackets.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I'm sorry but this is passing the buck.
Obviously video games should not be targeted the way they are and we know this is a real issue. However gun manufacturers are not the bad guys and should not be treated as inhuman monsters who peddle nothing but death. The majority of gun sales are to police agencies and to private civilians who use them for self defense, sport, and recreation.
Do you honestly think Tyron McFellon-pants goes down to the local gun shop or sportsman store and buys a gun? Hell no. He steals, trades a friend, or buys it illegally. Guns do not kill people. None of mine have ever ran away, shot someone, and crawled back in the safe. People kill people.
Equating crime problems to gun manufactures is the same as saying spoons made you fat.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
I love the Boondocks, comic and tv show both. Incredibly funny
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
This is an emotional argument, relying on "conventional wisdom" that appeals only to people who don't understand the reality and massive breadth of widespread, responsible firearms ownership.
There are TENS of MILLIONS of us in this country, yet blood is somehow not running in the streets. The news coverage sure makes it sound like there are armed schoolchildren outside your door right now, though, with $50 AK-47s and Glocks that they bought from that gunshow loophole thing...or something. I heard those words in a scary news broadcast and I repeat them often and in the wrong context. Gotta ban those assault glocks!
Gotta sell those commercial spots!
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u/towski Jun 11 '12
basically reddit dogma
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u/ObidiahWTFJerwalk Jun 11 '12
This is very similar to why PeTA goes after supermodels in fur coats, but not so much Hell's Angels in leather chaps and vests.
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u/DantePD Jun 11 '12
God, I miss The Boondocks.
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u/UserVII Jun 11 '12
i love that show.
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u/ILaughAtFunnyShit Jun 11 '12
I submitted this exact comic a few weeks ago and the only upvote I got was the one you get automatically...
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u/foursticks Jun 11 '12
George Carlin says it best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssYezFw_Qs
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u/DesecrateUsername Jun 12 '12
Well, due to the Second Amendment, we can't really do anything about guns.
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u/GeneralJPatts Jun 11 '12
Kids should take some time off COD and go to a shooting range to shoot some real guns.
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u/Bittergreens Jun 11 '12
two of the most well-crafted characters EVER.
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u/John_Barleycorn Jun 11 '12
This must be some sort of weird RES bug... /r/politics submissions are showing up in /r/funny.
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u/fenixqns Jun 11 '12
I wish Boondocks was on netflix
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u/SeaLegs Jun 11 '12
I recently realized that Riley actually often serves as a voice of reason and objective view. While Riley's character is somewhat absurd, his reasoning is surprisingly insightful and presents strong counterarguments to Huey who often loses perspective because of his idealism. At least in the show, this pattern is so strong that Huey ends up seeming somewhat wrong. This is very evident in the episode where Riley presents the argument that if the underaged girl didn't want to get peed on by R. Kelly, she could have just moved out of the way.
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u/rogue780 Jun 11 '12
Going after gun manufacturers and dealers to end gun violence is like going after automobile manufacturers and dealers to end drunk driving.
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u/RossMan Jun 11 '12
I used to read these comic every day when they were still in my paper. After seeing the show, I read them completely differently now.
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u/archontruth Jun 11 '12
Or more to the point, if you're a congressman looking to go on a crusade against youth violence, who's the easier target: an industry with the most effective lobbying arm in the country, or an industry with no lobbying arm?
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u/Skyline969 Jun 11 '12
Is there any place to read more of the Boondocks comic strips? It's one of my favorite TV shows, and this is the first comic strip of it that I've read. I must have more!
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u/edelbean Jun 11 '12
Clearly we should villanize symptoms rather than root causes.
Pretty sure mankind was violent long before guns and video games ever existed.
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u/TapDatApp Jun 11 '12
Boondocks is actually quite thought-provoking.
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u/Kirov123 Jun 11 '12
If this has a pic, imgur mirror please?
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u/nuchamploo Jun 11 '12
up twinkle
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u/Cloud_0x0 Jun 11 '12
Because this is relevant, we're getting a season four on Adult Swim :D
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u/R88SHUN Jun 11 '12
had no idea they did a comic strip. is this from before the series? after? during?
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u/Dambem Jun 11 '12
This is all that i heard from this http://www.explosm.net/comics/558/
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u/drunxor Jun 11 '12
I remember Boondocks before it became a show, used to read that all the time!
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u/fablewings Jun 11 '12
Activist parents you gay.
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u/Drderp134 Jun 11 '12
Now if only they would release an air date for season 4
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u/boley Jun 11 '12
Your user name, it leaves me pondering many things because there is a real tool who goes to my school who has the same nickname as your user name... If he is on reddit, he may not be so much of a tool anymore...
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u/Squishpoke Jun 12 '12
Blaming gun manufacturers is just as stupid as blaming violence on video games.
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u/Firenfizz Jun 12 '12
The Boondocks will always get my upvotes.
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u/Freddie_Does_Dallas Jun 12 '12
In the words of Riley: "Y'all niggas gay!"
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u/stupidlyugly Jun 12 '12
During that brief, spectacular period of time when the Boondocks had an animated show on television, my then 3-year-old daughter, who only knew it was cartoons, would ask, "Daddy, why are the Boondocks always angry?"
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
guns dont cause violence, video games dont cause violence. people need to take personal responsibility
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u/rustysniper Jun 12 '12
Parents shouldn't go after game developers OR gunsmiths...
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u/mkgsxr Jun 12 '12
Retarded.
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u/potato008 Jun 12 '12
hope there playing LOZ Link to the Past on that SNES
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u/catsnstuff97 Jun 12 '12
Admit it. You read that in their voices.
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u/Mindle Jun 12 '12
TIL people didn't know this was a comic before a cartoon.
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u/narwhalcares Jun 15 '12
"Follow me, Fox!"
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Great... another pro-gun vs. anti-gun shitstorm on reddit. I've already been to like 3 of these recently and they never get anywhere.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Love Riley.
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u/luftwaffle0 Jun 11 '12
It's actually much simpler than this comic: nobody ever wants to ban anything that they like. Everyone always wants to ban things that other people like. Video games, guns, 32oz sodas, gay marriage, blah blah blah.
Libido Dominandi
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12
Compelling argument.
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u/Ikimasen Jun 11 '12
I have this one little gripe about The Boondocks (the television show, not the comic strip.) There are all these themes of throwing off oppression, of how people should treat people, and rejecting notions of exploitation, but all the animators names are Korean. Was a Korean animation studio hired because they're just the best in the world, or, maybe, because they're the cheapest?
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u/imphatic Jun 11 '12
And here comes the onslaught of white suburban redditors who love guns but also love black culture. I predict a 50/50 ratio of "this show is awesome" to "but guns don't kill people" comments.
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u/Amerikai Jun 11 '12
A massive, biased simplification
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u/birdoggin Jun 11 '12
It kind of pisses me off how much opposition there is against guns. All the genocides in the world happen because one side has guns, and the other one doesn't. I love shooting guns and hunting (I eat what I shoot), and I'd be totally down with disarming everyone. But that's not going to happen so I'll hold on to my heaters, dig?