I am numb to the carnage. When the news broke out of Maine I was not shocked. I shrugged. Young people gunned down. A slaughter of innocents in smalltown America. I paused and shrugged.
I opined for decades about the issue to no avail and now my children and grandchildren are growing up in a world that is less safe than the one I grew up in. We are living in a nation swept up in a Cult of Death.
I grew up in a military family familiar with guns. The Master Sergeant chose not to own a gun. He’d seen enough carnage, I guess. On my mom’s side we had farmers who hunted for food on the table. I am familiar with guns and gun safety. In my view every citizen has a right to small arm self defense, with licensing, permits and training, but no right to own a combat weapon. Most gun owners favor regulation of firearms. Our politicians are either insane, bought off with blood money or gutless.
Here are a few of my cartoons on the issue of guns in America. Some are decades old.
-David Fitzsimmons’ Progressive Voice Newsletter, reposted by permission of the author
This morning Fitz’s patience with the MAGA pseudo-religious hypocrites also broke…
The prayer of America’s “Men of God”
While we’re all sending thoughts and prayers for our Democracy
Jesus taught, “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.”
In this world there are amazing wonderful Christians who practice what they preach and then there are the pharisees and fools who disgrace their religion. Let’s listen in.
Bow your heads. Let us Pray.
Hey, Mike, congratulations on winning the Speaker’s chair. What are you all doing? Looking for Boebert’s contact lens?
Shush. We’re praying with our new Speaker. Ordained by God himself.
Ordained by Donald Trump?
Yes, brother. Take a knee. Bow your heads. Let us Pray.
Craps! I’m in for $20.
We’re praying here.
Are the cameras on? I’m in. Move over.
Our Father which art in Mar-a-lago, we praise your mighty and powerful name and we beseech you to protect your servants here who trust in you, for we know, verily, the days of the Great Retribution are coming as revealed to us by thy Truth Social Account.
Hell ya!
Language, brother, language.
As I was saying. Lead us not into compromise but deliver us from evil Joe Biden and Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi and all the demon Democrats here in this Lion’s den of sin and iniquity.
Of what?
Synchronicity?
Sin and iniquity!
Hakeem. Sounds like an infidel to me.
Ahem. Sin and iniquity! Smite them, O Orange Lord, with thy Proud Boys.
And let us rest in the Donald, and wait patiently for Him; for those evildoers who persecute our Orange Lord shall be cut off! And those of us who wait on the Orange Lord, shall inherit the House, the Senate and lo, the White House, and Trump’s trumpets shall sound and our Donald shall reign for ever and ever and give us this day a national ban on abortion, without exceptions.
Amen. Mumble. Whos got the dice?Amen! Amen. Mumble.
And smite the homosexual and all who practice bestiality.
Amen! Amen, amen. Amen! Don’t forget the Holy Salvation Slip’n’Slide Water Park in my district.
And fully fund the Holy Salvation Slip’n’Slide Water Park.
Amen, amen. Amen! Mumble. Amen.
And silence the wagging tongues of the Press, the enemy of our Lord and of thy people.
Amen! Amen! Mumble. Amen, amen. Amen! My knees are killing me. Amen! Amen. How long is this going to go on? Amen. Shut your cakehole, the camera’s are still on. Amen! Amen. Praise Donald.
And, in the days ahead, as we work to overturn the 2020 election, cut funding for the salavtion of Ukraine, and rain fire down on the Deep State we pray for an end to the persecution of our Lord and Savior, Donald John Trump and for America’s salvation on Election Day in the Year of Our Lord, 2024. In Donald’s name. Amen.
Amen! Amen. Praise Donald. How often is he going to make us do this? Amen. Amen! Amen. Amen! Amen! Amen, amen. Amen! Amen! Amen, amen. Amen! Help me up. Christ, that took forever. Yeah, yeah, praise Donald. Praise Donald. Praise Donald.
– David Fitzsimmons Progressive Voice Newsletter, reposted by permission of the author
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4 thoughts on “Fitz on Guns and Men of God”
This is off topic, Mr. Fitzsimmons, but on 10-3 you posted this on Facebook. “There must be a photo of Steve Farley throwing hamsters out of a plane into the ocean off the coast of Argentina.”
I’m trying to understand whether or not this is you making light of the Humane Society of So. Arizona’s small animal transport arranged by former CEO Steve Farley and his former COO. For those not aware, Farley accepted 323 small animal pets to be transported from San Diego’s Humane Society to HSSA in Tucson, but they were instead sent to a snake breeder. About 61 of the animals were returned alive leaving 260+ missing, most likely turned into feed before the public was informed.
I know that Steve Farley was/is a Democratic darling in these parts. And I wonder if he got the CEO job at the HSSA as a consolation prize for losing two elections.
Most of these animals were guinea pigs and rabbits. They had names. And if you were to do some research you would find that people love small pets as much as other people love their cats and dogs.
The community supports animal welfare organizations like HSSA because we believe in their mission. We have no way of knowing all they do behind closed doors, but we trust them to do what is right. This deal (and perhaps previous deals) between HSSA and the snake breeder is an egregious violation of the public trust. Animal activists are justifiably angry, it isn’t as though the animals have a voice.
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Your comment seems to confuse the words of a satirist with those of someone who is genuinely indifferent to animal welfare. We have here a category error. Learn to take a joke as a joke, Liza.
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“Learn to take a joke as a joke, Liza.”
I knew someone would say that if there were any response at all.
I don’t think that Mr. Fitzsimmons is unconcerned about animal welfare. I think the joke was on behalf of Democratic darling Steve Farley.
I guess we all have different opinions about what we should or should not joke about. One person’s satire can be another person’s pain. And that is clearly what is happening in the animal rights community.
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Off topic again. There’s another issue that should concern HSSA. The IRS gets upset when a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit violates their stated mission.
From Wikipedia:
“501(c)(3) tax-exemptions apply to entities that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, for testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.”
Sending 323 small animal pets to their doom, to be fed to snakes or to breed animals to be fed to snakes would likely be considered as an act of animal cruelty by the IRS. This was not done by rogue employees, it was done by executives as official business.
Here’s a fun fact. Democratic darling Steve Farley ran for the AZ governor nomination and then mayor of Tucson, losing both primary elections.
This is off topic, Mr. Fitzsimmons, but on 10-3 you posted this on Facebook. “There must be a photo of Steve Farley throwing hamsters out of a plane into the ocean off the coast of Argentina.”
I’m trying to understand whether or not this is you making light of the Humane Society of So. Arizona’s small animal transport arranged by former CEO Steve Farley and his former COO. For those not aware, Farley accepted 323 small animal pets to be transported from San Diego’s Humane Society to HSSA in Tucson, but they were instead sent to a snake breeder. About 61 of the animals were returned alive leaving 260+ missing, most likely turned into feed before the public was informed.
I know that Steve Farley was/is a Democratic darling in these parts. And I wonder if he got the CEO job at the HSSA as a consolation prize for losing two elections.
Most of these animals were guinea pigs and rabbits. They had names. And if you were to do some research you would find that people love small pets as much as other people love their cats and dogs.
The community supports animal welfare organizations like HSSA because we believe in their mission. We have no way of knowing all they do behind closed doors, but we trust them to do what is right. This deal (and perhaps previous deals) between HSSA and the snake breeder is an egregious violation of the public trust. Animal activists are justifiably angry, it isn’t as though the animals have a voice.
Your comment seems to confuse the words of a satirist with those of someone who is genuinely indifferent to animal welfare. We have here a category error. Learn to take a joke as a joke, Liza.
“Learn to take a joke as a joke, Liza.”
I knew someone would say that if there were any response at all.
I don’t think that Mr. Fitzsimmons is unconcerned about animal welfare. I think the joke was on behalf of Democratic darling Steve Farley.
I guess we all have different opinions about what we should or should not joke about. One person’s satire can be another person’s pain. And that is clearly what is happening in the animal rights community.
Off topic again. There’s another issue that should concern HSSA. The IRS gets upset when a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit violates their stated mission.
From Wikipedia:
“501(c)(3) tax-exemptions apply to entities that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, for testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals.”
Sending 323 small animal pets to their doom, to be fed to snakes or to breed animals to be fed to snakes would likely be considered as an act of animal cruelty by the IRS. This was not done by rogue employees, it was done by executives as official business.
Here’s a fun fact. Democratic darling Steve Farley ran for the AZ governor nomination and then mayor of Tucson, losing both primary elections.