Maybe if you stopped lying about Tamir Rice having an orange safety tip on his gun.

Really, spreading a lie in the service of what you think is a good cause sure can be satisfying, but it also makes you scum.

“Maybe if you stopped lying about a child who was shot 2 seconds into the encounter (where the dispatcher didn’t tell the officer that the caller said the gun was probably fake) by an emotionally unstable cop whose employer didn’t check his employment history. I’m a huge baby who can’t form coherent thoughts unless I’m told what to say.”

I fixed it.

The comic portrays a black toy gun with the orange tip removed as a green toy gun with the orange tip in place. It’s an obvious distortion.

The whole point of the comics is to present simple, digestible strawmen and “own the cons”.

Rice was not shot “two seconds into the encounter”. He was given warning as they approached in the car, he drew the replica from his waistband, and got shot.
Sad, but no one ever called him a “grown man”.

And it was an airsoft replica, not even a toy, they look near identical to the real thing.

Bad parents, unfortunate miscommunication, stupid kid. A tragedy, but not an “execution” or whatever BLM shit out.

First off, I want to say that it is horrible that Rice died and no one should be taken out that young. That being said, I’m going to piggy back here and ask a question. Which is the real gun.

First set, its the Stainless one. There are also stainless replicas so don’t let that fool you.

Its the second one. The only difference might be the Airsoft is based on a Scar 16, firing 5.56, while the real one may be a 17 firing .308.

Its the second one. Lie and tell me you knew it off the bat. I’ll make the last one easy for you.

If you are confused its the top one. Just so you know, I picked two of these for a reason. I owned both these pistols at one point, a Jericho in 9mm and a Px4 in .45, put thousands of rounds through them and if you pulled either toy on me I would split your head own in a heart beat. Why? Because all it takes is five seconds for your bet on good to fall through.

Now make that decision before you step out of a car.

If you guess wrong, you die.

Tamir Rice was also actively trying to be mistaken for an armed young man threatening people, which his defenders never, ever acknowledge. Because that leads to the question of ‘how do you expect the cops to tell the difference?”

Also, kids kill people too. If he did have a real gun, should the cops have just let themselves get shot?

Airsoft pistols like Rice’s are not required to have an orange tip.

I would like to point out that this thread doesn’t even give a fuck about the OP, because it’s on to much more important matters, and I think that’s just great.

Spreading lies and misinformation to support your political views does nothing but sacrifice your integrity for the few moments before you’re proven false.

It really doesn’t take that long to find the truth, especially these days.

I’d love to see any examples of literally anyone calling Rice a “grown man”, much less proof of the implication it was a common thing.

Also, that one comic is hilariously ironic when a major part of the astroturf response to Parkland was calling teenagers 18 and over “children”.

Hey, I actually like Matt Bors’ comics!

All I need to do is figure out the point, then take a contrary position.  Boom!  I’m already closer to objective truth!

first panel: yeah I’d say fatherlessness and drugs are a big problem in “White” (Read South/country/hick) culture hell I’m guess its a problem in mass shooting (which is an urban and northern problem too) and yeah we should talk about it

second panel: I believe in places were the old Johnny cash type music is played a lot it leads to a raise in suicides cause the music is so hopeless, but for the most party country is about lovin your baby, your cars and trucks, God, mama or and partying, maybe you can find a song about frog gigging or hunting but for the most part ain’t about shooting or mass shooting for sure. Also Kid Rock isn’t really country he’s rock.

Third panel: Naw unless it’s blue collar work your buddy helps you get you can’t get a job looking like that. the ‘slang’ is regional you ain’t gonna git no job in damned yankeeland if your accent too thick.’ Also accents like ‘git’ which is a different way to pronoucing get isn’t slang it’s an accent

4th Hell yeah everyone who can work should try and get off wellfare. Also way pride flag? Why not an American Flag?