The Nightmare Continues In Both Real Life & The Virtual Reality Of Today's "This Modern World"

Within the e-mail bearing today's TMW 'toon, Tom/Dan also wrote:

Aaaaand Happy New Year! I wrote this one a few months ago, but it kept getting bumped by Trump craziness, and then impeachment. Early holiday deadlines have finally given me a chance to run it.

Dan/Tom

With impeccable timint, today's TMW 'toon is prescient in light of the recent church shooting in White Settlement, a suburb of Fort Worth, TX. During the church service at the West Freeway Church of Christ yesterday (12/29/2019) morning, a man arose from his seat in a pew and opened fire with a shotgun. Two male members of the 240 persons in the church at that time fell dead. Within seconds, the shooter was shot to death by two congregants who fired back. The two defenders were members of the church's volunteer security force. In the aftermath, the senior ministerBritt of the church, Britt Farmer, speaking at a press conference in the aftermath of the violence, gave thanks to the government that "allowed us the opportunity to protect ourselves." Of course, that same government has enabled gun violence throughout the United States thanks to the influence of the National Rifle Association and its opposition to gun controls. Here is an image captured from the church video recording system of the shooting scene in progress:

If this is a (fair & balanced) national tragedy, so be it.

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The Unfairness Of It All
By 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 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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