Mme DeFarge

If you’re just visiting Madame DeFarge for the first time, WELCOME! Here’s the drawing referred to in the Loaded Conversations interview.  I’m stocking up on new sketchbooks for the 2017 legislative session, which starts in early February.

All hail the Monkey-King. Bow before the Comboverlord.

Thom Tillis, of North Carolina: $4,418,042 in NRA blood money.

John McCain has taken over $7.7 million dollars from the NRA over the course of his career. And they still only give him a grade of B+.

I’ve been gone for a while, literally and figuratively. I went to Paris for a few weeks, and I didn’t want to think about guns while I was there. I didn’t have to, because guns are not part of their culture, despite what the fear-mongers would have you believe since last year’s attacks. I felt safer there. Then I came back and Orlando happened. I just didn’t have it in me to make cheeky drawings of despicable gun extremist quotes. But now I’m pissed. So for the next little while, I’m taking on a project that I’m calling ‘NRA Pocket’. 

Real-Life Quotes from Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, a gun-lobby group to the right of the NRA. Pratt made the top quote in yesterday’s New York Times article about the recent spate of toddler shootings. The other quotes are some of Pratt’s greatest hits. While the media treats Pratt as a reasonable spokesman for gun rights, he’s actually got a long, well-documented history of  racist, insurrectionist, anti-Semitic rhetoric. Learn more on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website.

Real-Life Quote from Georgia House Speaker David Ralston on Governor Deal’s veto of Campus Carry in GA.

Real-Life Quote from Georgia State Rep Rick Jasperse, sponsor of the Campus Carry bill just vetoed by GA Governor Nathan Deal.

Real-Life Quote on Proposed Gun Safety Legislation in Washington State. The Speaker is Dave Workman, of the Second Amendment Foundation, opposing Extreme Risk Protection Orders, which require temporary removal of firearms from people undergoing a mental health crisis.

Real-Life Quote from Rhode Island Legislative hearing on Gun Safety Laws.