This Week's Sneak Peek

I didn't draw this week's cartoon about the terrorist attack on Tree of Life Synagogue, but I can spare a few words about it today.

This week's Time magazine cover story attempts to bring together the thoughts of gun control advocates and Second Amendment absolutists. I have members of my family across the spectrum, including people who have lost loved ones to gun violence and yet fall in the latter camp.

I have a hard time understanding that. I understand the desire to be able to defend oneself. I understand the need to be able to protect family and livestock, and to put food on the table.

But I don't understand the mindset that there is nothing —and nobody— more important than an imperative to have as many and as advanced instruments of death in the hands of everybody who hasn't killed someone else yet.

These killings keep coming and coming, and the reaction from the absolutists ranges from "Gee, that's too bad" to "They must have been asking for it" to "It didn't even happen."

The Nazi in Pittsburgh had no criminal record, so no background check or waiting period was going to stop him from slaughtering eleven innocent people. So maybe Mr. Trump is right, and the U.S. needs to have armed guards patrolling every synagogue.

And church.

And temple.

And school.

And movie house.

And discotheque.

And outdoor concert.

And shopping mall.

And beautician's shop.

And doctor's office.

And rest home.

And day care.

And street.

And park.

And on

And on