Alabama native Scott Stantis is widely viewed as one of the best — if not the best — editorial cartoonists in the country. At one point he was the staff cartoonist for The Birmingham News. And although he’s now at The Chicago Tribune, which is one of the most high profile jobs in his field, Stantis still flies back to Alabama to get his driver’s license renewed. As long as he keeps coming back home, we’ll keep claiming him.
As a rash of mass shootings over the last several years has reignited the debate over how to keep guns out of the hands of murders, Stantis and other defenders of the Constitution have rightfully pointed out that the vast majority of these tragedies occur in so-called “gun free zones.”
Here is Stantis’s stirring response to President Obama’s calls for more gun control.
There are times when the United States takes the silliest actions against some of the most serious issues. Gun violence is one of those issues. Rather than address the core problems we create “gun-free zones.” We even announce that absurdity with a sticker! Politicians, including President Barack Obama, proclaimed we must do “something!” What that something is doesn’t seem to get articulated in a way that is either specific or constitutional.
Perhaps we just need bigger stickers.
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— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizEBeesh) January 21, 2015
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