Dateline
4-20-15: Yeah, today's 'toon is late...
again. To be honest,
I'm torn between creating a balanced,
meaningful, well-reasoned, entertaining
'toon or just cranking out the usual crap.
Either way, stay tuna-d, my little progressive
fishies.
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Numbers
Game
 On
Sunday, in Cleveland, 1-year-old Braylon
Robinson (left) became, by unofficial
count, the 24th U.S. child killed
by gun violence when
he was shot in the face by a 3-year-old
who'd found a loaded gun in his house.
I say "unofficial" because
the Center For Disease Control doesn't
keep a very
accurate count of these events. For
instance, last year they reported just
62 childhood
deaths from
gunfire,
but
Daily Kos' David Waldman, who also
tracks such events, reported 90 such
incidents.
Keep in mind that Waldman and the CDC only notate
deaths, not near
misses or non-fatal
wounds, of which I'm sure there are many.
New York City, however, reported 850 unintentional
firearm
injuries
to children under 14 last year. That's the same New
York City in which guns are illegal so just imagine
the fun
at
emergency rooms in states where access to a gun is
as about difficult as buying a snow-cone.
I know you don't want to see the face of dead children,
but I don't care. I'm tried of hearing stories about
children like Braylon
because
of parents
who
think
it will
never
happen to them. It can and it will because
our gun policies are infantile. And that's why the
infants suffer.
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there, hi there, ho there! It's time for my weekly
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Happy Friday!
=Lefty=
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