Cartoonists are finding ways to comment on gun culture after the Fourth of July parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill.
How difficult would it be to obtain a weapon “that can fire the standard round used by NATO troops at 3,000 feet per second,” as he put it?
“My concern with the AR-15 is the weapon’s velocity — which is insanely high — the type of ammunition it can fire and the fact that it can easily be modified to become fully automatic,” says Thompson, who noted: “There’s no need for civilians to possess such incredibly powerful weapons and no need for anyone outside the military to possess such ammunition.”
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