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For reals, folks. Assault weapons do not contribute to mass shootings. Pistols do not contribute to mass shootings. Video games do not contribute to mass shootings. Heavy metal does not create spree killers. Lack of Jesus doesn’t make spree killers happen. Background checks will not stop spree killers.
You know what contributes to spree shooters? Human Beings. Some people are just twisted and angry and violent. You will never be able to legislate this fact out of existence. Life is dangerous. Laws don’t change that – they just change who you can sue after shit happens.
I’d like to take a moment to address a trend that’s been occurring in the comments:
This website is not your soapbox. It’s mine.
I work this comic thing as a second full time job. I don’t get to play video games, or watch a ton of movies and TV – because I am making entertainment here, and yes, I do get profit from it. But this also means that I get to preach to you from time to time, here in these updates. You don’t get to preach to me in the comments section that we have to pay for. I don’t care if you’re an anti-gun freak who thinks you have a holy mission to tell us all about HOW SCARY AND EVIL GUNS ARE. I don’t care if you’re an anti-choice screamer who JUST CAN’T HELP BUT TRY TO BABBLE ABOUT THE FETUS HOLOCAUST. I don’t care if you’re a hardcore Libertarian who wants to SCREAM THAT WELFARE IS EVIL, AND GOVERNMENT IS TYRANNY, BY DEFAULT. I don’t care if you think BITCOIN IS THE ONLY WAY, AND ONLY RON PAUL CAN SAVE US NOW. This isn’t your soapbox. It’s mine, and I work hard to maintain it.
If you come in here with a chip on your shoulder, I’ll shut you down. I may just ask you what, exactly, it is that you fucking want, or if you push me, I may just delete your comments and ban you. And I won’t even feel bad doing it.
Don’t like it? Then you go create a blog or a website or a comic strip of your own. It’ll be your little soapbox. You’ll get all the audience you deserve, depending on how interesting you are. But our readers are not your audience to spew bullshit to. Doing so makes you the equivalent of those annoying Mega-Christian cunts who walk down Bourbon street trying to preach that everyone there is going to hell, with big banners and a bullhorn.
So I guess what I’m saying is: Stop being dickheads. I know, saying this to the internet is a fool’s mission, but I just wanted to get that off my chest.
Also, yes, I’ve been closing comments on strips that are more than 2 weeks old or so – mostly due to spammers. This site was getting over 400 spam messages a day for a while there, which was a tedious thing to clean up. I noticed most of the spam hit posts that were more than a month old. If there’s a post that still has activity after two weeks, I’ll leave it open for a bit, but that honestly hasn’t happened yet.
I feel pretty good, now that we’ve had this chat. Now, some light music:
Or, as Eddie Murphy put it in his funny days, “It’s my house. You don’t like it, get the fuck out!”
Bravo to you sir, and to Mr. Grant.
I’m glad we had this chat, too. You have been spared a rant about smokescreen issues pursuant to a recent epiphany of mine.
We haven’t seen Brenda in a while. How’s she doing?
What do you mean with ”heavy metal doesn’t make you a spree killer”?
Eddie constantly whispers to me in my dreams to axe the kindergarten or elementary school in the name of the mocking religion of hatred that burns in the night. To my shame I must admit i caved in on several occasions, but fortunately there is no one in the school/kindergarten at night.
Heavy metal is evil, it will corrupt your soul and condemn you to the eternity in the lake of fire!
Yippie! Thank you for giving me my first good, warm fuzzy of the morning.
And the downsides is…….?
You’re doing it wrong…that magik sticker put on the cover by those that know what’s good for you is supposed to stop those feelings…read the sticker and all will be well!
Don’ ya just love those people who say “if’n y’all don’ agree wit’ me, you gotta jus’ ’bout be an idiot.” I love the strip — love the comments — don’t agree with everything, but, that doesn’t make either of us an idiot. Banning the trolls who just wanna live under their bridge and throw out insults…fuck ’em.
have your bad self a groovis day!
Oh, and PsihoKekec — heavy metal doesn’t make you a spree killer. It takes something stronger … like Norwegian death metal. *nodding*
Norwegian death metal kindles my sacral pyromaniac tendencies, but Norwegians have it easy, their churches are wooden, here are brick and mortar, with high windows, making it hard to torch them down. It’s so hard to be tr00 br00tal evil.
Dang — next time I decide to do a Temple for Frostburn, it’ll be Norwegian Stave Church time.
That is a funny thing about heavy metal these days. Back in the day people were terrified by Black Sabbath. Imagine hopping in a time machine and playing some truly crazy death metal for the folks back then? Or better yet, going back and playing it for the people who were freaking out about Elvis’ salacious stylings? You’d probably have some heads explode.
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that… but your kids are gonna love it.”
Me, I’d love to see where music would be now if, say, Sunn O))) were around in the ’60s.
Thug rap and death metal will be elevator background music for the next generation. 60’s, 70’s, disco, and punk are the background music in nursing homes now.
Next gen music:
“Screams of the slaughtered, to a background of feedback and chainsaws.”
Can’t wait for that to go on tour… >:)
I always wonder how much of the worry about guns comes from a lack of familiarity. Especially when everyone talks about high capacity magazines. I don’t have a ton of hands-on experience with firearms, mostly just some target shooting in my youth and earning my shotgun merit badge in boy scouts, but my father had a semi-auto .22 handgun and it was the work of two seconds to pull out the magazine and slap in a new one. Maybe the people trying to ban high-capacity magazines aren’t aware that you can get more than one magazine at a time?
What about that fucking maroon DeGette (D-CO)? She was the one who gleefully exclaimed that “once the magazines are used up, no more guns!!!!!”
There oughta be a law: if you don’t know shit about the thing you’re trying to legislate, shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down. That works for Old White Men yelling about abortion too.
I don’t remember where it was, but I remember seeing an analysis of the Virginia Tech shooting where it assumed the shooter (whom I refuse to name) was restricted to non-“high-capacity” magazines. As I recall, the effect would have been the shooter having to carry two more magazines, and with no effect on the actual attack–the extra magazine changes would all have occurred between rounds of shooting.
He did have 10-round magazines. He had a backpack full of them, and reloaded each gun multiple times.
According to the report from the Virginia Tech Review Panel, some or all of the Glock 19’s magazines were standard 15-round magazines. (Mentioned in chapters 6 and 8, if you’re up for some really depressing reading.) Chapter 6 also states that the panel drew the same conclusion I mentioned above (although I think the analysis I saw was independent of the panel’s): “The panel concluded that 10-round magazines that were legal would have not made much difference in the incident. Even pistols with rapid loaders could have been about as deadly in this situation.”
“those annoying Mega-Christian cunts who walk down Bourbon street trying to preach that everyone there is going to hell, with big banners and a bullhorn.”
No, no, no…..that’s part of the street theater. And why would you deprive the freaks on Bourbon St. from THEIR entertainment of trying to shock those poor little innocent bible school grads? I’m from New Orleans…..those guys are NO problem.
‘Zactly. Woudn’t be teh same – How can one know one is tempting damnation if there isn’t a loony or two to tell you so?
“I can’t believe you made me do that!” is a hint. Her telling you her My Little Pony collection may be traumatised for life by having witnessed it is a stronger one. If the last thing you can remember is someone wanting a belt for something and you telling them to use the one in your pants … and pointing to the corner where you left them … and that was 36 hours ago, you may well be on the way to damnation.
Here’s another hint:
“If that’s not illegal in at least 45 states, it’s only because nobody’s heard about anyone doing it yet.”
“That’s probably because nobody survived it before.”
For that matter, anything Ellis’ buddy Keith ever did was stupid, immoral or both, so if he did it and it wasn’t particularly stupid, that’s a step towards damnation.
Hrm. Three months later, you run into someone who’s been on holiday in China and they tell you they heard some mad story from a local there about a guy from your area who did those things you remember doing, and they just can’t believe anyone would be that twisted.
Of course, if you really want to be damned, just eat the flesh of hares, shave the temples of your head, have about you a garment made of two fibres woven together and practice crop rotation. Those are all abominations. That or eat beef. The Christ-stains won’t care but the Hindus will damn you.
I must really be missing out by coming here in the morning…
Return visits are highly recommended, I come back 4 or 5 times minimum.
I wish I had about four more hours in the day, so I could hang out at all my favorite comment sections. Sadly this one loses out to my guild most of the time 🙁
Do you feel guildy about that? 😉
Since nobody else seems to have remarked on your choice of music this morning, I’ll start: that Richard Cheese is one twisted puppy! Already run thru about five of his covers, all good, but very surreal listening to stuff redone in lounge style. I feel like knocking on the door of the speakeasy and offering “Swordfish” as the password.
As to the rant, I agree, it’s your site, you can talk about whatever you want in the blog section, and if folks don’t like it they can GTFO, or at least offer a reasonable, rational counter-argument, without resorting to threats of eternal damnation or societal destruction. Maybe crack a joke about it.
This is the creator’s soapbox, and I’m okay with that. One of the reasons I try try not to comment much, as I tend to soapbox obnoxiously if I don’t watch myself.
Heavy metal does not create spree killers
I submit, sir, that that means heavy metal is not doing its job.
I was promised Satanic mayhem and corruption, sir, and I demand satisfaction!
(Christ, even Christian Vikernes can’t get anyone to go on a killing spree, and he actually killed someone himself! Curse you, black metal!)
Damn you! You have failed to damn me!
I actually shut down the comments section of Fetish-Artist.com over six months ago. I think maybe I got two positive comments and the rest were spam. They still try to spam on occasion. Shutting down the comments after two weeks is a great idea. Who goes back that far to read the comments anyway?
BTW, yes, I’ve stopped commenting in general. You’re comic’s great. I just haven’t had much to say 😉
My name is Richard Cranium. What would you like to talk about?
/snark
CORRECTION: ‘Uh, actually, military-style rifles were used in fewer than 3% of the shootings.
Not a third (33%.) You’re an order of magnitude off.
Good on Archibald.
Yup, in fact IIRC it’s such a small amount that military style rifles don’t even have their own segment, they are just lumped in with rifles in general.
Well, technically, 3% *is* less than 33%…
I for one enjoy a discussion with people who have different opinions then myself. Too bad most peoples discussions are based on Ideology instead of rational discourse
“This website is not your soapbox. It’s mine.
Don’t like it? Then you go create a blog or a website or a comic strip of your own. It’ll be your little soapbox.”
That’s so harcore libertarian, how can I argue?
I SEE WAT U DID THAR
Would love to have a like button or plus rating or any way to express how much I heartily enjoy so many of your comments and those of the other FTF readers. Mostly I refrain from a string of silly “me too! / right on! / woohoo!” replies. Mostly.
The 2-week cutoff seems a quite reasonable solution to the spambot infestations.
So I know everyone hates background checks and all but hear me out. What if the background check was like the e-verify system you make sure someone is a legal U.S. resident and not a criminal. However, I think the waiting period is way to long it should be an instant check like for e-verify. Criminals may not buy from Gun Shops but wouldn’t the gun shop owner want peace of mind that they are not selling a gun to a known bad guy? Yip, I know the issue is that you do not know who all the bad guys are and that perfectly normal looking people just go and do crazy shit without warning.
“If you come in here with a chip on your shoulder, I’ll shut you down.”
please do.
Are… wait. Are you asking me to ban you?