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I used to be cool and hip and then I got a mortgage, a payroll to meet, overhead and responsibilities. What the heck was that? I don't understand anything in that "cartoon".

Aren't they to have punchlines? Back in my day when I walked uphill to school barefoot in the snow both ways, cartoons had punchlines and we liked it.:banghead:
 
Certainly some days are better than others. I imagine it's tough to come up with something new and funny every day. Still worth the 30 seconds a day in my opinion.
 
DBD is not much different than Doonesbury, for example - more of a way to make a wry statement than to elicit an outright guffaw.
 
Too many exposed midriffs for me to take seriously.

He's trying to present frearms in a no-nonsense manner,
but he draws all his girls like they're from an A&F catalog.

Might swing some metropolitan fencesitters, but it's too chic for me.
 
I like the comic, myself, and the people in it are familiar to me...sorts I hang out with. SUCCESSFUL people of my age group, who follow fashion trends, and are conservative because they don't want the government taking away their money to give to people who didn't try as hard. People who fought their way through school into a lucrative career in marketing, creative design, whatever, and enjoy their success.

The cartoonist is rightly showing that not all young professionals are leftist twits, many are conservatives, and that not all conservatives are frumpy old-before-their-time sorts who dress sensibly and go to bed at 9pm before the age of 35.

I like it. I've followed the comic for some time. For anyone who works in a hip, urban-setting office and is successful, but likes guns and resents the government sucking out of their wallet to give to deliberate failures, it speaks their language.

And as another poster said, it's not a "ha ha funny joke" old-fashioned comic strip. It's meant to be wry social commentary.
 
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I never understood the appeal of DBD. It is not funny, wise or profound, unlike Doonesbury. In most cases there is no point to the strip. Must be very popular with the chic, urban metrosexual crowd who like pointless entertainment.
 
Yes, csbyte, and one overwhelming attribute of the "chic, urban metrosexual crowd" is that they tend to be financially successful professionals in life, who took the time and effort to learn the skills of a lucrative career, and enjoy the fruits of their success.

Now, they can either vote conservative, so as to keep their own money and not have the government tell them what to do, they can find guns to be a pleasurable hobby and a wise form of self-defense, or they can be alienated by statements like yours, discount all conservatives and 2A advocates as 'bubbas', and vote elsewhere.

Very helpful.
 
Now, they can either vote conservative, so as to keep their own money and not have the government tell them what to do, they can find guns to be a pleasurable hobby and a wise form of self-defense, or they can be alienated by statements like yours, discount all conservatives and 2A advocates as 'bubbas', and vote elsewhere.
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People are smart enough to know that conservatives are not about keeping our money from wasteful feel good spending, nor are they protectors of our rights. I bet the people you are talking about already know this and vote accordingly. Gun owners already swing fence sitters to the other side with their irrational hatred for anyone that does not subscribe to their point of view. Every notice that on this web site.
 
People are smart enough to know that conservatives are not about keeping our money from wasteful feel good spending, nor are they protectors of our rights. I bet the people you are talking about already know this and vote accordingly.
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I think you're mistaking neocons, who got their posteriors handed to them, for actual academic Goldwater conservatives, who ARE about all of that.

Most people I know are of the latter sort. They're disgusted by the mishandling of the war and drunken-sailor spending and simply lousy management over the past few years, but they're also for keeping government small and out of their pockets. They're for slashing entitlement programs and ending the Section 8 plague that's ruined many a starting-to-gentrify uplifting neighborhood, sending it crashing from the first few upscale bistros and galleries for the successful, right back to freefire crackdens. They're also for criminal control, not gun control...wanting to severely punish repeat offenders, not coddle them, not try to understand them, just slap them with harsher punishments, no amentities, down to bare cells with a clean foam pad and bland, nutritious soy gruel...until they learn how to behave like human beings, and if they can't, keep them locked up and away from civilization.

They're REAL conservatives in the fiscal and academic sense.
 
hey're REAL conservatives in the fiscal and academic sense
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Neocons and Conservatives have more in common than you expect. The conservative that you speak of don't exist. They never did and never will. Conservative of all stripes are for increasing goverment spending, enlarging the goverment and the military. They want interntional trade pacts that hurt honest American workers. And the icing on the cake they want open borders.
 
I love Day by Day. And I'm with Kaylee and Henry Bowman. :D There are so few positive portrayals of firearms in the media, I'll take them wherever I can get them, even if it's in the comics. (They'll even slip the anti-gun agitprop in there, too!) As far as Doonesbury goes, quite possibly the best smackdown on Mr. Trudeau and his god-awful creation can be found here.
 
I just discovered this strip from a link from this thread.
I like it, it seems to handle the topic of firearms with an even hand.
It's only a small piece, but its neither completely pro-gun or anti-gun, more like:

"There's likely some problems here, but let's not get nuts."

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Maybe it's enough that a work can use firearms and their attached baggage for lighthearted humor instead of getting into the gritty politics itself.

Y'know "here's the guns, here's two perspectives, it's kinda crazy" but while keeping frothing hardlining at bay and next week the kids are playing football.

Instead of, "This week in Cleats, the shocking gun storyline that you can't afford to miss."

One thing's for certain, we gunnies take our cartoon strips {} seriously.
So much simpler when it was just dogs flyin' around on their red houses.
 
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Fella's;

There I are, out in the middle of Montana, and likin' bein' there and readin' the Day By Day cartoon every day. However, I quit reading Trudeau's Doonesbury years ago, 'bout the time he quit doing commentary & got a political agenda.

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Have been reading DBD for about 18 months now. Sam is cool. And I can relate to it. Unlike Doonesbury, which is about as funny as Michael Moore 24/7.

The positive gun stuff is a plus though.
 
Thanks, Lord Gibson.

Hey...is it just me, or does the marketing director for SIG in the cartoon look kinda like...the marketing director for SIG?

Sounds as if the cartoonist is one of us.
 
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