Pro AWB expiring cartoon in Newsday (New York)

[Pete45]

So, just as we are contemplating cancelling our family's subscription to the local newspaper, Newsday, my Dad passes me this political cartoon he cut out of the paper. I am not sure if it is exactly pro-AWB sunset or not, but it was funny.

So why cancel the subscription to the paper? Recently, Newsday has been publishing a lot of anti-gun articles, mostly dealing with the sunset of the AWB. A few days ago, they even had a centerfold photo of a TEC-9 (actual size) accompanied by info and an article about the ban. Surprisingly, they seemed to have checked their facts a little more than they have been recently and kept the editorializing to a minimum.

The articles in recent months have been filled with errors and emotional exaggerations prompting me to wonder how much I can trust any "news" report in that publication. Pretty much any article written by Paul Vitello needs to be read with a red pen handy to mark up all the errors.

Check out the attached cartoon...

- Pete45

 

[Mulliga]

Seems like an anti-gun cartoon to me.

 

[grislyatoms]

Ditto

 

[Geech]

Yeah, definitely anti.

 

[El Rojo]

Yep, not a good one. Go ahead and cancel away.

 

[pbhome71]

Don't forget to write a letter telling them why you cancel it.

-Pat

 

[Pete45]

Yeah... I think I was reading too much into it to make it "not so anti". At first I kinda took it as the need to be less politically correct and letting "feel good - do no good" laws die out in favor of security in our nation. Wouldn't it be nice if the media actually felt that way? I was fooling myself.

Yup, I gave the cartoonist too much credit there. Guess the cartoon's political comment was more like "now we will have terrorists in our American schools".

- Pete45

 

[boofus]

Draw your own cartoon and mail it to those idiots, something that goes along the lines of...

Abdula says "We are ready to slit the throats of the infidel children and teachers, by all that is holy Allah give us strength to smite the imperialist capitalist American pigdogs"

Achmed says "Wait! The Americans have banned assault weapons. We can not possibly carry out our murderous mission"

Mohammed says "Yes it is true. We can not continue. I will inform Osama. He will understand."

 

[Tamara]

I think the author meant it to be anti, but it's quite the political Rorschach Blot. My first reaction was "Right on! And next we'll arm the teachers!"

 

[jfh]

Tam, I'm with you...

with a little work from our resident cartoonists, that cartoon could be redone slightly to be VERY pro-gun.

 

[Little Loudmouth]

jfh, ditto! Great idea!

 

[tyme]

I'd do it but I don't have a wacom tablet or a scanner.

 

[Rawlings]

Someone should photoshop in a bunch of AR-15s on the kids' shoulders, THAT'LL make it a pro-sunset cartoon.

Frankly, I'm glad I haven't been on LI reading Newsday for the past couple months. That paper makes me so frothing at the mouth furious at the drivel they print... Every 6 weeks or so I write them a letter pointing out all the fallacies/inaccuracies in one of their Vitello/McCarthy/Cocco editorials or the letters they print from the MMM... would it kill the to print a counterpoint? Apparently.

Vitello once did a column about all the hate mail he got from gun owners pointing out the mistakes in his previous column. Two or three, how shall we say ..."inarticulate" gentlemen lost us a chance to get our message in print because all he focused on were the threats.

 

[jcrb]

thats defnitely an anti cartoon

 

[SodiumBenzoate]

I am all for giving teachers firearms training and keeping an AR-15 in a locker in every classroom, or just allowing teachers to carry... But it'll never happen, even though it could save a bunch of lives.

 

[Dead]

Most certainly an ANTI ad.. Would have been better if they said "Armed Parents where allowed to 'protect' their kids in the schools"

 

[Hypnogator]

Tamara is right again. (Isn't she always?)

Although intended as an anti cartoon, those of us who know that some of the terrorists were kept at bay by gun-wielding Russian citizens will realize that the cartoon is right on!

Now, if we could just convince school administrators that an obvious next step would be to cache one or two of those assault weapons in locked facilities within the school, accessible to teachers and administrators in an emergency.....

 

[Werewolf]

Very ANTI - here we have an example of terrorists taking over a school (all armed of course with AW's) and here we are in the US (supposedly) making it easier for our terrorists to get a hold of AW's that were previously (not really but try telling an anti that) banned.

IMO the author intended for the viewer to note the irony of the situation.

Cancel your subscription.

Positive thinking gunnies can dream all they want about the cartoon in question being a "we can more easily protect our kids now that the AWB has sunset" thing all you want but it'll still be just a dream.

 

[F4GIB]

Self-delusion is an essential element of life in NYC and immediate suburbs.

 

[PAC 762]

Here's a better one:

 

[Standing Wolf]

My first reaction was "Right on! And next we'll arm the teachers!"

You're just not cut out to be a leftist extremist, young lady.