Video: In Guns We Trust: American Firearms Cartoonists
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Some hope for God, while others try not to make a mistake themselves. Others, according to a 2005 Gallup poll, are 30% in the United States. For some of them, the place of God is taken by guns and pistols: in guns we trust (we believe in barrels). What insects have to do with the problem of weapons, what a new species of Arizona cactus looks like, and what little children need to buy, American cartoonists know.
1. The right to bare hands
In the United States, even flies and mosquitoes know their rights under the Second Amendment of the American Constitution. Cartoonist Dave Granlund puns: “right to bear arms” becomes “right to bare arms”.
2. Arizona dream
Two symbols of the state of Arizona have fused into one - a firearm cactus. And no wonder: the area where more than one western was filmed deserves a rebranding. A new species of plant thriving in the desert, on the border with Mexico, was discovered by cartoonist Steve Greenberg.
3. Shoot - so shoot
“You cannot buy firecrackers: they are prohibited. But what about this 44-gauge Smith & Wesson Magnum? It is legal, but it will fire so much that it will not seem a little! " The paradoxical situation in the entertainment market was recorded by the American cartoonist Jim Day.
4. Cannons are not toys for children?
It is necessary to train young Americans to weapons from childhood: pistols suspended above the crib, a teddy bear with a target … And there is some truth in the black humor of cartoonist Jim Day.
5. Nothing personal, just business
“But if you don’t sell guns to idiots, my business will go out of business,” admits Clay Bennett's cartoon character. Holy simplicity!
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