Monday, December 07, 2015

The Problem With No Solution

Before the blah-blah introduction, here's a reminder about the below image: Click on image to embiggen.

Now, on to the aftermath of the San Bernadino Massacre: Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) deftly illustrates our Great National Dilemma. The final panel of the 'toon illustrates our Gordian Knot of guns and mass shootings. If this is (fair & balanced) hopelessness, so be it.

PS: Internet news outlets reported that "California gun stores saw a spike in gun and ammunition sales following the December 2, 2015, shooting in San Bernardino."

[x This Modern World]
Here We Are Again
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins

[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]

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