I was working on an Alabama election cartoon yesterday afternoon - something about a gun-totin’ governor high-stepping through an apparent primary victory - when news broke of the Texas school shooting. Switching gears, I jumped on Twitter and found the following tweet floating in my stream (it was from 2015):
“In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.” -- Dan Hodges (@DPJHodges on Twitter)
RELATED: Bo Jackson on Texas school shooting: ‘We aren’t supposed to bury our children’ - al.com
RELATED: Charles Barkley calls it a sad day in this country.
What a sad, ugly truth. Its dismal, hopeless message stopped me in my tracks. Are we so numb that we just shrug off these senseless massacres as being normal in America?
And then I found this rant. I’m with this guy: Warriors’ Steve Kerr gives impassioned plea to lawmakers after Texas school shooting: ‘I’ve had enough’ - al.com
Here’s another Twitter sniff: (19) Randy Archer on Twitter: “The Eyes of Texas & Alabama are @GOP blood red #ALPolitics https://t.co/nga6ixHZgq” / Twitter
Lord help us.
True stories and stuff:
Robert Plant head-butted me. Thanks, David Coverdale - al.com
I was ZZ top’s drummer for a night and got kidnapped by groupies
Check out more cartoons and stuff by JD Crowe
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Kay Ivey believes in the right to flee speech - al.com
Trans youth medical ban: Did the Good Lord make Kay Ivey a bully? - al.com
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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