Drawing this comic left me giggling. Scanning the art in left me giggling. Coloring and lettering it left me howling with laughter. A lot. So help me, as long as Joe Biden keeps opening his fucking mouth about guns, I will never run out of material. I could pause the storyline regarding Mick and Alex and Heidi and the gun shop and just do a month of comics about Joe Biden, and I’d love every minute. But, indeed, quite a few of our readers like the storyline, so we’re going to only do these kinds of shenanigans once a week or so.
In case you’re wondering what I’m talking about here, Biden has actually given this advice. He has been talking about a few things regarding firearms and home defense recently, and every bit of it is bogus. It’s very obvious that he’s only ever fired a double-barrel shotgun, probably plinking clays at Martha’s Vineyard. And then he retired to the main guest house, where he swilled $800/bottle scotch and ashed his cigar on a Peruvian servant’s stomach. He apparently thinks the AR-15 is too heavy, too complicated, and has too much recoil for a mere dame to handle.
Mel would like a word with him on that. Her AR-15 is my wife’s favorite rifle.
Seriously, I now have a backlog of Biden strips in my brain.
This video from a shooter, who was having a gun day in Big Bear the day of the Dorner drama, sums up an excellent point I agree with.
Fuck Biden.
I’ll be honest, I’d rather the guy a few doors down had a shotgun instead of an AR-15.
That way, the next time he shoots out his windows accidentally, I don’t have to worry about it damaging my house.
Methinks you may be underestimating the penetration capabilities of 12 ga 00 buck.
Quite possible; I’ve not experimented with either.
But I’m fairly sure that a round from an AR-15 would go through these walls a lot more effectively than the 00 buck.
We’re talking over over 50m here. (Admittedly, I paced that off with my Ingress app, so the number could be off some.)
And to be more accurate than my first post, I’m not so worried about the house. The outside is stucco, and that’s easily patched. It’s stuff coming into the house, when this bozo screws up with guns again, that I’m worried about.
Him screwing up with guns again is inevitable.
Read and be enlightened on penetration of shotguns vs. rifles.
Actualy, you would be surprised. The 5.56 is unstable in flight (at least the ones i am aware of, YMMV as they say.) and will start tumbling and quite disintegrating if hitting anything more solid than a twig.
Note, i am no expert.
Part of the reason that the military switched to 5.56 was to reduce collateral damage. 5.56 is just a hyper 22, it doesn’t go thru much of anything, and when it does it has shed a lot of weight and velocity and lost what little killing power it had.
Yes, “little killing power”, its well known among the grunts that it takes at least three well placed shots to kill your average terrorist!
I would be much more worried about my neighbor having a big cartridge hunting rifle in 30-06 or 308 if I were you!
You mean a “full sized” rifle cartridge.
Also, correct me if I am ignorant here… but isn’t negligent or reckless discharge of a firearm often cause for confiscations and disallowing one from owning said devices?
Biden has been doing wonders at hurting the gun control cause as he’s basically living the stereotype that anti-gun folks have no real understanding of firearms.
Hey, stereotypes may be exaggerated, but they often have some core of truth. And in fairness, it’s not like Biden has ever demonstrated much practical understanding of, well, anything.
First, I still question the election along with BHO’s credentials. We have no POTUS/VPOTUS, only a couple of phony socialists. I favour exiling both Joe ‘Biteme’ Biden and BHO for life, along with the entire anti-gun lobby and all extremist liberals over such shenannigans as ACORN and other vote tampering, along with penalties for ignoring the Constitution.
Second, I consider gun control unconstitutional. The only ‘sensible’ laws concerning firearms are a statement declaring each citizen responsible for any weapon in his or her hands, and hunting restrictions designed to maintain viable populations of prey species. We should rip out ALL ‘gun control laws’ retroactively back to the Civil War. That includes the atrocities done in 1934, 1968, and 1986, as well as what that communist Klinton and morons like BHO and Biden are pushing.
I can’t help but think of you when I see this image.
I swear watching that animation never gets old and is never not funny.
ACORN hasn’t existed for 3 years now, that had nothing to do with the previous election.
Right, and Handgun Control, Inc. hasn’t existed for 12 years, so gun control is dead, right? Oh wait — the same gang of idiots in the same office building is doing all the same old things — they just changed their name! And so it is with ACORN.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-acorn-network-still-active-under-new-names/article/2505629
Do you think we’re stupid?
Socialistliberalprogressiveorganizations change titles regularly, as they burn all the goodwill and cover afforded by the previous one.I haven’t worked with CNC machines or done any metalworking in many years, as I’m currently making my way as an IT person. However, with just a tiny investment in tools to make it easier, I could take a single AR-15 magazine, get all the specifications off of it, and build as many as I wanted. For that matter, if I wanted to invest the time and energy, I could do the same thing with most firearms.
Now, you consider that someone who works as a mechanic, welder, machinist, or similar occupation would have a big head start on me, and you start to get the idea that there’s no real way to truly BAN guns. All the laws that can be made will only be effective against people who are willing to obey them. I’m hearing, more and more, the refrain “Well, if they pass that law, I guess I’ll be a criminal”. This is a dangerous mindset to get normal people into, because the last thing you want is a nation of outlaws.
I feel compelled to point out that a Sten Mk III submachine gun required 5 man-hours to make (with a minimum of machining and 1940s technology), and that it’s not hard to find what are basically blueprints. Stens were absurdly simple–fixed firing pin, pure blowback, firing from open bolt. There was a later US variant that didn’t even have a trigger–pull back the bolt handle and it would fire until the magazine was empty. (An attempt to get around the “one shot per trigger pull” restriction, it was quickly reclassified by ATF.) Of course, the Sten came before CNC mills, 3D printers, and CAD, which open up many more options.
Incidentally, you can also make your own 3D printer–look up “RepRap”. It takes around $500 in off-the-shelf parts with some custom pieces printed on another 3D printer, although a long-term goal of the project is to make it possible for a RepRap to make all of the components for another RepRap. I don’t know if a RepRap could produce a 3D-printable magazine or receiver or not; I’m not sufficiently clear on the RepRap’s capabilities and limitations and the requirements for those components.
I made this argument to a friend at one point, who quickly concluded that we should ban ammunition instead. I pointed out that brass cases and smokeless powder were 19th-century technology, with lead bullets centuries older than that. The thing that a lot of people don’t get is that guns are incredibly simple devices; the differences between a Mondragon from 1887 and a modern M4 are largely tactical and design innovations rather than fundamental improvements in function or increase in difficulty of manufacture, with brass cartridges changing even less.
This. So much this. Add to this that most don´t understand why getting shot by a hunting rifle with a hunting load is way more dangerous than getting shot by a FMJ from a AR15…
That’s the (biggest) problem with stupid laws: they undermine respect for the law in general. Whether it’s Prohibition or idiotic speed limits, arbitrary and pointless laws serve only to teach the average person that they can violate laws and suffer no consequences (unless they get caught, of course). Since not everyone bothers to sit down and reason through which laws actually make sense and which are feel-good BS, this leaves them with less regard for all laws.
Although I agree – Biden is a tool – isn’t getting a shotgun for home protection the same advice that Mick gave Heidi?
I do believe I may have mentioned several times that Mick isn’t always right.
I’ll also note that Biden specifically discusses double-barrel shotguns. A pump-action or semi-auto shotgun is a whole different beast from a double-barrel shotgun. Ask 5 informed people opinions on home defense guns, you’ll get at least 6 different answers, with a pump-action shotgun probably in the list, but not one of them will be a double-barrel shotgun. (Note that I said “informed”.)
Just because weapon X is preferred by “most” advisors in “most” cases doesn’t mean the government is free to outlaw all other choices.
My youngest daughter had some harsh words for the VP when I played his firearm advice clip for her. She’s an adult, but at less than 100 pounds isn’t able to handle my 12 gauge’s recoil. She can shoot my Mini-14 just fine, though.
The scary thing about Biden is that he’s just one bullet away from being President.
Wasn’t it in the movie _The President’s Plane is Missing_ that someone commented that the fictional president’s choice for Veep was the best insurance a head of state had ever had against assassination? 🙂
That was Dan Quayle. Seriously, the only reason he was in the Senate was to get him out of Indiana.
Biden really made a bonehead statement, but at least he didn’t say, “Just call the cops”. And I’d rather use a 12 gauge myself.
I honestly believe Danno was a lot brighter than he was generally made out to be. Problem was, the poor man was (and AFAIK still is) incapable of engaging his mouth and his brain at the same time. As a politician, he was fundamentally incapable of not talking. If he’d only ever developed the ability to, you know, shut up, I’m willing to bet he would have quickly earned a whole new reputation for wisdom and sagacity.
But, but, but… If an AR-15 is too much trouble for the wimmenfolk, then why in heck are we allowing wimmen in combat roles? How many years have our female Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors been carrying M-16s, M-4s, and much more complicated and heavy weaponry? The Stupid, it BURNS!
I’m convinced Biden isn’t stupid, he’s senile.
Dammit, shut up, that might be the gist of next Monday’s strip already….
Oops?
I’ll shut up and go back to messing with the family cats. They’re shockingly similar to Ebenezer and Snooch…
“Biden is as dumb as an ashtray.” Roger Ailes
Personally, I think that defames many ashtrays… Including the one I made in Kindergarten.
BTW: Many self-defense Illuminaughty think a gas-operated, semi-auto, 18″ barreled, 20 Gauge shotgun with a Youth stock is probably the best for a family. Or an AR-15. The 12 Gauge SxS is a nasty, hard kicking, limited capacity, difficult to reload, bastard.
He’s not called Slo-Joe for nothing.
Well… IF your SxS is done up coach gun style, short barreled, cylinder bore, has a smooth operation, reliable and durable in every way, and you TRAIN LIKE HELL with it, always assuming you’re built sturdy enough to take the recoil… you might ALMOST be as dangerous as someone with an AR and rudimentary training. At close range, anyway. Now if that person has good training and a simple, reliable, and effective AR rig, well, then you’re back in the fire, instead of merely climbing into the frying pan. I may have an institutional dislike of the AR that comes from having to spend entirely too many hours scraping carbon and crud out of the bolt carrier group, but as long as you maintain it and remember its limitations, don’t force its owners to use stupid “bullet buttons,” don’t force it to use a dinky little magazine, and don’t outlaw it because its external eye-hostile and shooter friendly ergonomics “OMG ARE SOO SCARY LOL,” it is simple, reliable, accurate, light, soft recoiling, and hard hitting enough to get any particular job done that you care to name.