Changes happen. Much of humanity’s hatred of change comes from not facing change. Hippie hippie, kumbaiyah.
It will never stop amazing me how many of my solidly liberal friends, who are anti-gun, want to legislate strict gun regulation, but also smoke weed recreationally in states where that is not allowed. The cognitive dissonance is thick as fuck. Just musing on this, as discussions have been hot the last two weeks.
I have been rocking out to this track.
This is going to break Tom’s heart.
And yes, people are wired like that, they want to legislate away things they don’t like and act like the laws on everything else don’t apply to them.
Oh, maybe it will finally give him a safe place to come out. 😀
One way or another, Tom is going to shit a brick. Or maybe puke his toenails up. Certainly, the thought of being caught in a place like that will make his balls all sweaty…
Or… maybe… he’ll stumble over True Love(tm) in a fellow customer there. (I don’t remember, is Tom married?)
I think Tom is just in love with his self-image as a crusty old asshole.
“It will never stop amazing me how many of my solidly liberal friends, who are anti-gun, want to legislate strict gun regulation, but also smoke weed recreationally in states where that is not allowed.”
Hey it’s not as if you’re immune form this liberal bug yourself.
You speak of gun rights and of the Constitution and of the Second Amendment but oh wait let’s go back and realize something. It says that these rights are god given, hence they come from our creator. However from reading your comic for a long time and your comments section as well I realized you don’t believe in the “Goat herders’ Ooga boga man.” Therefore these so called rights where do they come from?
It can’t be from god or from anything natural because you don’t believe in that “stone age shit”. So if it is from the government they make the rules. If they decide to make a law tomorrow banning guns you have to respect that since it’s thier rules, you have no god given rights, since in your case it is impossible for them to exist.
So what do you believe in man?
Me? I like the OOGA BOOGA man! …..and hence my gun rights
Probably get a ban for this…
Why bother with a vasectomy when they have already made you a eunuch.
Actually, I’m pretty sure they’ve exactly the opposite… YMMV ;>)
The mind boggling continues, especially when you hear the reasoning for why we should have such strict legislation, I think it ends something like this “…to prevent so much gun violence” The cognitive dissonance IS thick as fuck, and I for one am not shy to point out that the consumption of illegal drugs in the US is one of, if not THE main reason for all this “gun violence”. And that is not to say that one should be against the smokin of some weed every once in a while, but if you are going to do it you should at least be aware enough to know the source of said weed so that if you are going to complain about “gun violence” at least you know that you aren’t directly responsible for financing the industry that condones it. As that would be slightly less onerous than financing the violent drug gangs directly while simultaneously advocating the erosion of our bill of rights.
Oooh I foresee some great strips of protesters outside the shop as Mick comes in to work and giving him no end of crap when the way ultra left types draw conclusions that the shop name is actually “guns pointed at our hearts!” and that it means them in specific. Sure, they might have to be trucked in from somewhere else for it to work, but hey, whats a 12 hour bus ride for a guy with a protest sign?
“Isms” wreck a lot of things. Indeed, ANY idea carried too far is pretty sure to muck things up.
Heh. One fairly reasonable definition of “heresy” I’ve seen advocated by a specific member of the Catholic blogosphere is “taking one specific and good part of Catholic doctrine, and exalting it to the point where it is used to reject other, equally good parts of Catholic doctrine.”
Hrm. Did not know that. Makes sense, though.
“Hello, Welcome to Cheaper Than Your Mo- FUCK!”
It’s going to be awkward for a Mick I suppose.
Alas poor Mick, right now thinking with the big head, then the honeys will start strolling in, then the little head will take over…..this can only wind up badly for our “hero” !
Meanwhile, teh interbutts are all a-twitter (PDI) about those two little psychopaths and their Slenderman trip. “Slendy didn’t make them do it waaaaaah!!!!!” But they have zero problem believing that guns are inherently evil. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I’m waiting for Tom’s reaction to the change. If Mick has a hard time with it, Tom’s gonna shit a brick. “Faggot” this and “faggot” that is gonna come out of his mouth.
I’m all for more women shooters, and gun stores being women-friendly. But they’re gonna lose the male customer base if they make the shop too girly.
>But they’re gonna lose the male customer base if they make the shop too girly
Wouldn’t that be a trade off?
When it comes to the bottom line of business, I don’t think so. More men buy more guns than women. THe numbers of women buying guns is increasing, but men are still the majority of gun buyers.
But… if you have a shop that caters to female gun buyers… are you likely to cornor, nay, perhaps expand, that market?
Let’s assume men buy 5 times as many guns as women, and (for simplifying purposes) that men only shop at male-targeted shops when available, and women only shop at female-targeted shops if available.
If you have 5 male-targeted shops in the area, they’ll each get the same business as the one female-targeted shop.
Sketchy assumptions? Certainly, but you get the idea. In practice, I suspect they’ll lose less than 10% of their existing clientele (and the ones they do lose will mostly be good riddance), and gain more than that in new customers.
Dunno – In my younger days, if I knew of a gunshop where the ladies hung out, I’d have driven fifty extra miles to shop there.
Damn straight.
My god, burn it to the ground mick. its done for.
That looks like a H00+@^s sign on the lot.
Things are going to be more interesting when all of the waitresses are packing heat.
They already are… Oh, right. 😀
I’ve posted my ideas about gun legislation before, so I’ll settle for a summary here: “FFS learn to use it properly!”
As for weed, I’d want it a lot mroe legal than it is just so I could grow a shitload of it and do some serious scientific testing before I formed an opinion on legal status long-term. Also: look how things went in Portugal.
No really, scientific testing. You’ve got to look at dose (as a tiny, tiny percentage of body mass), frequency of dose, circumstances of dosing, age at time of dosing and so on. Does it have an effect on a developing foetus if the pregnant mother consumes THC? Does it get passed along in breast milk? What effects does it have in infancy, in early adolescence, in late adolescene and in adulthood? What about combinations of those? What are the threshold doses for any harmful effects discovered? You need to look at 1mg, 2mg, 4mg, 8mg, 12mg, 16mg, 20mg and 24mg per kg body mass doses per day, per two days, per three days, per six days, per twelve days, on two consecutive days every twelve days and just once in each combination of any number of those life stages. That’s 64 x 8 x 7 groups plus a large control group and that’s before you get into whether it’s taken by a test subject who’s under stress or already relaxed, and even then you’ve got the question of whether they like it to take into account.
Yeah, I would be getting through an awe-inspiring number of little white rats doing those tests, and I’d need a lot of helpers to check size, weight and scores on various tests too. I think the protesters would have another dose of cognitive dissonance there. “He’s doing experiments on rats! It’s unethical!” “Dude, he’s giving them warm, dry, clean beds, clean water, good food, treats, lots of games and free weed.” “What? Well … it’s still unethical!” “Weed’s unethical?” “It is if … uh … if they don’t want it!”
I think if a rat refuses to take any more I should respect that and allow the rat to voluntarily move to a different test group.
Once all that’s done I can start on the tests on humans, and I don’t mean that bullshit that was on TV with them asking leading questions like: “Do you feel there is a conspiracy against you?” I mean monitoring the effects on people’s performance of tasks like driving (a simulator), crossing an assault course, bench-pressing weights, solving equations, catching tennis balls, playing Left 4 Dead 2 and so on. If we’re going to make cannabis legal for general consumption, we need to worry about a possible connection to something that’s killed 1.7 MILLION people in the USA since the end of the Vietnam war: shit driving.
Gotta say, when i had a pet rat and was living with people who smoked their breckfast and were card carrying members of hte mullers and packers, the rat never once refused weed. She liked to get stoned climb out of her cage and bomb out on the couch while everyone else was watching shitty stoner movies. The worst problem was when she got the munchies and ate huge holes Julio’s leather jacket. Kinda serves him right for getting her stoned in the first place
Best comment of the day (and it’s only 9am here, but I’m still OK with saying that)!
My hat is off to you, good sir.
Can I please steal this for purposes of splicing it into an RPG scenario? Can’t pay as I’m only an amateur, but if I ever meet you IRL I will buy you A Very Large Drink Indeed.
At least they are not going to make him wear a work uniform.
Or are they? “I can take the shirt with the store brand on it, but butt-less chaps are taking it too far.”
Vasectomy – No.
Castration – Yes.
The sign looks like it belongs on a lovers ‘toy store’. Maybe Mick will expand the inventory! I can see a newspaper ad now: “Come shop and try our firing range in your new French Maid outfit”.
On the serious side, last week Washington State said the number of women who already have and who are applying for conceal-carry permits is at an all time high.
Well… if you have a gun store full of men, women might not want to shop there, but if you have a gun store full of women, men will shop there in droves.
We’re predictable that way. 😀
Next week: the girls buy a new sign that isn’t unreadable red-on-red.