Comments on: How good are guns? So good

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:38:13 +0000

My experience as a young teenager in a nutshell.

Never again.

By: Sandshoe

Sandshoe — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:08:40 +0000

Nothing like a dinner party.

By: Holden Back

Holden Back — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:11:26 +0000

I only visit occasionally, and have relatives who work in aged care. Delicious, those occasions, and that job has to have some upsides.

My joy is deciding when to play redneck and when cosmopolitan sophisticate. Nothing like a good clash of cultures to get a dinner party going.

By: TheFamousEccles

TheFamousEccles — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:02:28 +0000

Holden, that’s a ringin’ in mah ears. Working with demented folks myself too, I can hear it. In a way I feel guilty sometimes when a certain patient unloads on me in a mix of ol’ timer slang and the “f” word, it’s a good as I can do not to die laughing.

By: Holden Back

Holden Back — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:21:11 +0000

Oh Eccles, but I am frum roun’ heya.

Born & bred, and what one local female dementia patient refers to as “one of them hillbilly c##ts.”

By: TheFamousEccles

TheFamousEccles — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:02:28 +0000

Y’all not frum roun’ here, arr ye? Bucha shure hav a purddy maouf…

By: Holden Back

Holden Back — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:02:14 +0000

There also used to be a dog food product the shape and size of a small licorice all-sort that fitted perfectly into an air rifle. Rubber bullets for little tackers. Not that I ever …

By: Holden Back

Holden Back — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:27:54 +0000

I hope they’re allowed to carry matches as well.

By: First Mog on the Doona

First Mog on the Doona — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:04:03 +0000

Why did FDOTM need to kill the sparrow with his hands? Wasn’t he man enough just to use the gun?

By: Cleaner

Cleaner — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:54:35 +0000

I’m sure at the end of the day Charles Darwin would support the NSW Government decision.

By: Plonkoclock

Plonkoclock — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:19:18 +0000

Hmm, a gentle soul I knew a long time ago had a similar experience to young FDOTM.. Though it didn’t stop him emptying the magazine of a semi-auto .22 rifle into his wife. Last person you’d imagine doing such a thing.

By: klewso

klewso — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:52:57 +0000

It’s a wonder that gun slinger didn’t call them “thunder sticks”?

By: Kim Wright

Kim Wright — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:44:57 +0000

Best thing I heard today was on ABC, in an interview with the head honcho of one of the pro gun thingies. He corrected the interviewer when he called guns “weapons” .They are guns. Perhaps shooting implements would be better. I am sure the animals and humans shot and maimed by “guns” appreciate this correction

By: rhwombat

rhwombat — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:29:21 +0000

um, so Steve, are we talking Ursus ursus or simply hairy blokes with chaps (so to speak)? Though the thought of koalas with firearms does have a certain fearful symmetry.

By: Stevo the Working Twistie

Stevo the Working Twistie — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:52:03 +0000

If we must follow every lead of the good old US of A, why don’t we insist on the right to arm bears?

By: Andybob

Andybob — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:43:56 +0000

I think you’re onto something Zut, maybe they could invite Dick Cheney along ?

By: ernmalleyscat

ernmalleyscat — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:42:18 +0000

As the description of the grisly deed in frame 5 shows us, it’s not guns that kill, it’s hands. The opposable thumb and the species that possesses it will be the death of us all.

By: klewso

klewso — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:22:54 +0000

“Dumb, dumb, dumb, Fatty what have you done?
Dumb, dumb, dumb it’s the sound of a gun….”

….. how do drugs and guns mix?

By: zut alors

zut alors — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:20:39 +0000

12 yr-olds with guns in national parks, what a ripper idea.

Here’s another one, equally as good: on every public holiday O’Farrell’s cabinet should convene outdoors in one of these allocated parks. That’d test their mettle.

By: drmick

drmick — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:18:57 +0000

I like Paddys idea. Lets arm the ferals so they can defend themselves from the shooters.
Carefully planned and with appropriate funding, they could wipe each other out. A win win for the environment and the rest of us who don’t need guns and who don’t want to hunt in inappropriate places like National Parks.

By: klewso

klewso — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:14:40 +0000

As you say - it’s all fun ‘til someone gets killed (even with a cross-bow) - then we can have a game of “Whose Fault Was it Anyway?” - wot cood possumbly go rong?

“Deliverance from Evil” …. just in case!

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:08:19 +0000

DROVER’S CAT: What is it about Coalition governments that welcomes shooters and opens national parks to caravans? The midget-brained Ted Baillieu-Premier of Victoria, in lockstep with the National Party-who won him the election-have prostrated themselves in order to accommodate the ‘Shooters’ mob-I will not call them sporting.

Just when it looked as if VIC might institute a law banning duck shooters there was an election which Baillieu only just won. Now we’re opening our parks to cheap motels and caravans as well as being allowed to shoot anything that moves.

By: Neal

Neal — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:01:07 +0000

Most cartoonist combine humour with sociology. You have this inate knap of combining humour with philosophy. I like your work.

Neal

By: paddy

paddy — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:51:25 +0000

Relax rhwombat. Of course I meant those cuddly spotted felines.

After all, there’s simply nothing to equal the joys of camping in a National Park.
You know. That special thrill of waking up to the sound of birdsong,
untroubled by the nagging whine of 12 year olds.

And all because a friendly Leopard called by for dinner late in the night.

By: drovers cat

drovers cat — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:45:34 +0000

You won’t see me walking through NSW national parks now that congenital idiot O’Farrell has let loose the dogs of the Shooters Party.

Where are the Sensitive New Age Cowpersons when you need ‘em?