Armed goons

 From Cathy Wilcox

Bullet-proof backpacks

By Andy Marlette 

The God-given right to guns

 From Andy Marlette

Protected from drag queens & dirty books

 By Paul Fell

This dandy imported rifle

  From Jason Lefkowitz

If you're unfamiliar with Herbert Block ("Herblock"), he was one of the all-time great editorial cartoonists. He took over the op-ed cartoon at the Washington Post in 1946 and filled it until his death in 2001. It was a Herblock cartoon that coined the term "McCarthyism."

I first came to Washington in 1993, when Block was still vigorously cartooning. His eye never softened or slackened. It was vital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herblock

Herbert Block for the Washington Post, November 27, 1963. (Five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.)

New cage liner

By Matt Davies 

The gun problem

 By Dave Whamond

Republicans and guns

I don't know who the author of this telling cartoon is.  If you do, let me know in the comments so I can give credit. 

[He is Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez.  Hat tip to Camila Brun]

More guns means more deaths

 From a tweet by Sean Casten

Three true things: 1) Red states have a lot of guns. 2) More guns = more gun death. So people in red states are more likely to die of gun violence (homicide + suicide) 3) 34 states have higher rates of gun death than IL, no matter what RW media tells you to the contrary.

Reminder to non-Americans.  In the USA, red means right-wing, and blue means left wing, the opposite of what it means in the rest of the world.

Life expectancy in the US

 This very interesting article from Our World in Data:

Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? 

(Study by Max Roser)

Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?

The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. In addition to this, deeper poverty and less access to healthcare mean Americans at lower incomes die at a younger age than poor people in other rich countries.

The US clearly stands out as the chart shows: Americans spend far more on health than any other country in the world, yet the life expectancy of the American population is shorter than in other rich countries that spend far less.

The chart here doesn’t just show the latest data points, but how life expectancy and health spending have changed during the last five decades. The arrows start in 1970 and connect the annual data points for both metrics, showing the change over time.

In the 1970s the US didn’t stand out at all, it does so now because life expectancy increased much more slowly than in other countries. At the same time, health spending in the U.S. increased much more rapidly, particularly since the mid-1980s. The consequence of these two exceptional developments is that the US followed the much-flatter trajectory that the chart shows.

The unequal development over recent decades led to an inequality between the US and other rich countries. In the US health spending per capita is up to four times higher, yet life expectancy is lower than in all of these countries.

The US has achieved very substantial progress in health outcomes over the last 140 years: in 1880 the life expectancy of Americans was 39 years, since then it has doubled. But this extremely positive trend has come to an end. While life expectancy for people around the world continued to increase, the life expectancy of Americans has declined since 2014. With the pandemic of 2020 – which already caused more than 225,000 deaths due to COVID-19 and 300,000 excess deaths – it is unfortunately already certain that the decline of life expectancy in the US will continue this year.1

In a word:  the triumph of neo-liberalism.   

Truly, American Exceptionalism is correct.  Just in all the wrong ways.

Shit-life syndrome

Poverty is the 4th cause of death in the US

The great share buyback scam

When I was your age

 

Kyle Rittenhouse

 

God-given right to guns

 By Andy Marlette

Fireworks are illegal

 By Clay Bennett

Banned books

 None of these has ever shot up a school.

Assault rifle

 

Open carry

By Christopher Weyant 

Ease of access

 By Ted Littleford

Ukraine wants what American 18-year olds can buy

 A cartoon by Mike Luckovich

How concerned are you by gun violence

By Walt Handelsman