Is this somehow intended to persuade us that a resourceful Army Major bent on murderous mayhem would have been thwarted by stiffer gun laws or even a gun ban? What a typically simple-minded Utopian fantasy that is, even for Matson.

Matson is right. If there were no guns on that base, the whole thing would have turned out differently. Nobody would have brought their own guns on base and went on a killing spree had they known that guns weren’t allowed.

Matson’s cartoon is the kind of stupidity that passes for journalism today. Journalists no longer report news or investigate the story beneath the story they are advocates of a liberal leftists point of view. Much of their drivel makes no sense whatsoever–when the United States collapses because “political correctness and diversity and so-called hate crimes” prevented people from speaking the truth, most of the blame will lie at the feet of shallow, ignorant journalists like Matson who had no concept of the real dangers in the world.

Inapropriate, and please take it down.

Matson-you are a very talented cartoonist and your work is among the best I have seen in print. However, I find the “Fort Hood” cartoon in bad taste and frankly a desecration of our national symbol. I respect your right to editorial comment in this fashion, but I do think that a good many readers would find this a vulgar excess.

Mr Matson -
While I support gun control legislation and think that specific types of weapons should be restricted to the military only, I find this image offensive.

As I hear the names of the dead being read over the past days, I can only think about the parents, children, lovers, spouses, brothers and sisters who are now shedding tears.

Matson’s drawing would seem to indicate that gun control legislation could have stopped this horrible Ft. Hood massacre. Nothing could be further from the truth.
This event is an aberration. Under normal circumstances citizens cannot depend on law enforcement officers to protect them from danger. The only way disarming citizens would be to create a dictatorship. Still like the Maquis, citizens would find away to obtain firearms to fight the oppression.
The is no predicting what lies in any individual’s future, but to disarm lawful citizens would only leave outlaws with firearms.
If gun control activists have their way, we would be defending ourselves with archery, until bows were outlawed.
What’s next? Crimes are committed with kitchen cutlery. Whet’s next? Penknives? Scissors? Sharpened pencils? Long fingernails, perhaps? Admittedly, this is a reductio ad absurdum, but it is a logical statement of what can start with taking firearms away from decent civilians.
Where does it stop?
Will taking firearms from everyone stop criminals and lunatics?
I think not.
As for me I am proud of my NRA membership and I will keep firearms, thank you.
I will support any legal means necessary to stop Liberal totalitarian thinkers such as Congress, the President and our latest Supreme Court Justice from destroying our Second Amendment Rights using the same underhanded methods they have employed to remove other of our individual civil liberties.
We Americans have elected these people.
We have met the enemy and he is us.

I don’t think it’s an offensive image. We are a country that is (in general) held up by fear and we turn to small arms thinking they will somehow make us safer. The reality is that they are often used to hurt and not for protection. To me this image just speaks of the patriotism in this nation, but also the fear and the violence that has come out of that.

I am so sorry for the victims at Fort Hood. They were there to serve the country and were innocents who did not deserve their fates.

I don’t see this as offensive to the victims of the tragedy or the Second Amendment. The handgun was the instrument used in another killing rampage in a country that glorifies guns. Isn’t that the truth? Don’t we glorify the gun?

While I don’t think you can effectively control guns in this society, gun control is a pretty old tradition in the US and A. The old western sheriffs controlled firearms in their towns by taking guns and locking them up until the owners left town.

Criminals do not buy guns legally and they do not register their guns. When guns are outlawed only criminals will have guns. I used to be anti-NRA, but when I see the Obama administration grabbing more and more power, and grabbing complete control of our lives by forced government health care, which delivers absolute power to the government, it convinces me that we need firearms to dissuade politicans from attempting to gain absolute control over every aspect of our lives.

I love my country, I fear my government. And I fear what my country is becoming–a President who apoligizes to anyone to gain favor, who is indecise when our soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan, who is taking over health care and bankrupting the nation and ignoring the sorry state of job creation.