Jim Borgman has been the Enquirer's editorial cartoonist since 1976. Borgman has won every major award in his field, including the 1991 Pulitzer Prize, the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1993, and most recently, the Adamson Award in 2005 as International Cartoonist of the Year. His award-winning daily comic strip Zits, co-created with Jerry Scott, chronicles the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, his family and friends through the glories and challenges of the teenage years. Since debuting in July 1997, Zits has regularly finished #1 in reader comics polls across America and is syndicated in more than 1300 newspapers around the world.
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Post a Comment*Sophmoric idea. High-school sophmore, at that.
You can do better.
Wow, this one really falls flat. Someone should lock up all those buttets, lord knows people can't be responsible for firing a gun.
I liked it - maybe the true answer is not that bullets make the decision to end a life, but the concept surely does evoke some deep thought.
The problem with the cell is that it DIDN'T evoke deep thoughts; rather, it was the thin pseudo-arguments so often used to pull at your heart strings when the facts won't support you.
An award-winning illustrator should strive for more intellectual art. This strip was a waste of Jim's genius.
Herblock would like it. Keep the
issue alive -- be it bullets, guns,
or the industry behind them. As far
as the facts, they're in the paper every day.
Toyotas are made for driving, baseball bats are made for playing, bullets are made for?...
This bullet killed a home intruder...
This bullet killed an armed robber...
This bullet killed a rapist...
This cartoon killed my respect for you.....
As far as facts go, isn't the major problem in Cincinnati Black-on-Black crime?
The narrative could run as follows:
Leroy killed a cop.
This Gansta' killed a convenience store clerk.
This drug dealer killed a mom sitting on a bench eating lunch.
DeShawn killed a kid walking home from school.
Howard Beatty killed a community activist.
Denzil killed a guy everybody liked.
This abusive pimp killed a woman you used to work with.
Jamal killed your son's best friend.
These good neighbors will be spending lots of time in jail.
Maybe an even more insightful comic strip would be a lineup of Bengals players:
This Bengals player gave alcohol to your daughter.
This Bengals player pulled a gun on your brother
...and so forth.
Really, the bullet idea is just cowardly.
OK anonymi: solve this.
Probe: Robbers Used Weapons Smuggled From Iraq by Soldier
By Eric M. Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 16, 2006; Page C01
The gang that carried out a series of commando-style bank robberies in the Washington area two years ago used fully automatic assault rifles that were smuggled from the battlefields of Iraq by a soldier in the U.S. Army Reserve, according to investigators.
Typical Liberal rhetoric. If that cartoon had any truth to it then sporting good stores should be littered with dead people. A box of bullets just sitting there can't kill someone, it takes action by A HUMAN (hello)to load the bullet into a gun, aim it someone, and to pull the trigger.
Dr. G has a point: It takes people to use fire arms -- just look at the ratio of bullets to dead people in, say, England. It's just like cigarettes - after all they've never killed anyone. (It was those people smoking them.)
This cartoon reflects an unfortunate mindset of many people these days - blame an inanimate object, not the person. If a person is overweight, blame the Big Mac. If they spill hot coffee on themselves, it's McDonald's fault. If a person is shot, blame the gun (or in this case, bullet) and not the shooter.
Behind every crime commited with a gun there is a person. That person is responsible for the crime. The gun didn't aim itself and fire. And the bullet certainly didn't jump into the gun, aim the gun, and then fire itself. There is a reason that people, not guns are sent to prison.
This cartoon also ignores the fact that bullets (and guns) can be used for good. A gun can save a woman from a rapist, or prevent a shopkeeper from being robbed. It can defend our country from Islamic fascists, and help a police officer stop a vicious criminal.
Next time, please place the blame where it belongs - with the criminal.
All my bullets must have been defective.
Of the many thousands of bullets that I've fired downrange, not a single one has killed anyone.
I will fire thousands more from my guns. I sincerely hope all of them are equally defective.
This bullet took the game that sustained your great grandfather's family.
This bullet killed the deer that was hunted together by father and son.
This bullet and others like it provided a challenging and rewarding afternoon of target shooting at the local range.
This bullet eliminated the poisonous snake you found by the kids' swingset while mowing your back lawn.
This bullet saved your father's/uncle's/friend's/etc. life in Vietnam/WWII/WWI/Gulf War/etc, etc.
This bullet helped protect your freedom.
This bullet quickly ended your suffering pet's life when she was hit by a car.
This bullet made your wife feel safer while you were on that business trip.
This .22 rimfire bullet sparked a lifelong interest in firearms and an eventual engineering/journalism/sales/manufacturing/small business career for a young man.
This bullet was used by a criminal to kill your friend-- yes, I'll give you one. Firearms can be used for evil too. But nothing in the world is all black nor all white. Consider the other side of things too.
How about "This bullet was fired by me, the American soldier, in defense of your rights to post crap like this. It's stuff like this that show how ignorant some liberals can be to the true facts. How about you look at all the good things law abiding citizens have done with guns. Wait what the hell am I thinking that would take common sense.
Three years ago, my wife (girlfriend at the time of the incident) had a bullet that persuaded a screwdriver-weilding burglar to quickly exit her apartment after he forced entry.
The bullet was chambered in her handgun, and never even had to be fired.
I thank God for this bullet.
You have my permission to include this 'bullet' in your next bullet-themed strip.
So... bullets are made for killing after all...
Thank you! Great cartoon! Please continue to provide these excellent examples of how whining liberals refuse to actually think an issue through. It helps remind the rest of us about the value of cogent arguments.
Hey Borgman, what's tomorrow's cartoon going to be? I know, how about a drawing of a nice fuzzy comforting blanket and let's say... oh, a roll of packing tape.Then you can claim that's what killed Marcus Feisel. It look like the Carrolls didn't even need one of your bullets.
Well, Jim, it looks as if you opened a can of worms, eh?
What I find interesting is that you stand alone on the issue. Only one comment seems to agree with your message.
The rest of us seem to understand that beer bottles don't cause traffic accidents. Bullets don't fly by themselves. Knives don't go around looking for internal organs to pierce. Pizza and donuts don't seek out arteries to clog.
People make choices, sometimes bad ones. People make choices, sometimes good ones. Inanimate objects just sit there and wait...
How about doing some research. Find out how many kids / adults are killed each year and by what means. You'll find guns are not at the top of the list. More people died in the Comair crash in one morning than all of your "bullets" combined. Should we not fly? Last year in Cincy there was a rash of illegal pool hopping that resulted in kids dying. How about bike accidents? Did we drain the pools and fill them in. Do we ban bicycles? You critcize and try to strike fear in what you do not understand. We as a scociety would never try to ban all dangers to kids. Just the ones liberals fear. The answer is knowledge and responsibility of individuals. Not objects and improper uses.
When logic fails, you appeal to emotion for your argument. pity.
When logic fails, you appeal to emotion for your argument. pity.
This bullet sits in my hand waiting for ME to tell it what to do.
Yep, still there, hasn't killed anybody yet. I'll keep you posted.
I've heard them all a million times.
"flies cause garbage", "pencils mispell words", "spoons cause obesity", "It's not the parents fault".
This is just another poor attempt at placing the blame somewhere else. It's just so easy, I guess.
Just to think. The very freedom you used to express your thoughts was given to you and is still protected today by soldiers whom you never have met. Soldiers who dont know you, but will keep fighting to protect your freedoms. The same soldiers who realize that some people will still protest them or spit in their face for what they do. But they keep on doing it. With their bullets.
That's weird. I thought it was the Constitution and our legal system that guaranteed and protected my freedoms. I guess next time I find myself in need of an attorney, I should pick up a firearm instead.
Jim, I have enjoyed several of your comics in the past; "Zits" happens to be my favorite regular strip. I am one of many who is disappointed with this particular offering.
Please stop trying to turn public opinion against my human right to self defense.
Is this the logic, anonymi?
MORE BULLETS = LESS VIOLENCE
I want to make sure I have this right before I continue.
Jim - your narrow minded and uneducated opinion has once again embarrassed you, me and the entire Queen City - you're just too far out in left field to realize it.
Mr. B, as evidenced by this outpouring of outrage and opinion, you have indeed hit a home run. Kudos.
Jim,
You're better than this. Everyone knows it - don't let yourself and the rest of us down.
Isn't it nice to have the freedom of speech? Many bullets helped bring that to you and help you retain it.
Everyone hits a flat note from time to time. Please give it some thought and better luck next time.
Common, be real. You can illistrate or subsitute the bullet with anything such as a car, a smoke, etc.
If there are already "ample" laws governing weapons then why are the police ignored when the NRA-swayed congress shoots down restrictions that law enforcement organizations support? Is there any reason law makers shouldn't accomodate the police -- the men and women on the front lines?
None of those bullets killed anybody.
They haven't even been fired, genius.
Hey Borgman,
Catch the next flight to Britain.
They'll eat up your leftist tripe.
Here's something to read on the plane.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel120501.shtml
and I'm not fond of your blogger either
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/
kopel120501.shtml
Jim,
Please substitute the word "automobile" for "bullet" and you'll be making the same intellectually lame argument.
Jim,
Please substitute the word "automobile" for "bullet" and you'll be making the same intellectually lame argument.
Jim,
Please substitute the word "automobile" for "bullet" and you'll be making the same intellectually lame argument.
And while you're at it, substitute "gun license test" for "driver's license test".
Oh, hold on, it doesn't exist in Ohio.
Also absent from Ohio:
-Restrictions on minors possessing guns
-Limits on number of guns you can buy in a month
-Ballistic fingerprinting
-Assault weapon restrictions
-Safety training requirements
-A waiting period.
So when we talk about "all the laws" that are "on the books", let's exclude the Buckeye state, shall we?
This is terribly disappointing. Someone who publishes in a responsible free press has a duty to research their subject. One, the artist apparently knows NOTHING of firearms, because none of these bullets have been fired. They're in their casings, and the bullets themselves are not flattened or deformed. Secondly..a bullet does not kill someone. A human being must load it into a weapon, point it at another, and decide to pull the trigger. Sometimes it's for good, sometimes it's for bad. But this can be said of ANY object. People kill with baseball bats, all the time, yet others use them for sport. Shall we ban all hard and sharp objects?
The American revolutionaries had to use a lot of bullets, and get hit and killed with others, to bring you the right to publish this cartoon. For shame.
Nitpick away.
Bullets like the ones drawn didn't exist in the Revolutionary War. All blackpowder & patched round balls.
This bullet saved my life against a man who broke into my house
Bullets like the ones drawn didn't exist in the Revolutionary War. All blackpowder & patched round balls.
Neither did the internet, but you're still free to print whatever you want on it.
Man, I've got a whole closet full of bullets and they haven't convinced me to kill anybody yet. Must be defective. Seriously, you sound like one of those people who blames hamburgers for the existence of fat people. Or, for that matter, blames cows for the existence of hamburgers.
That's a whooole lot of unfired, murderous bullets. We should have them tried and convicted in a court of law, I mean, you just provided all the evidence needed for that, right? Well, as much evidence as this cartoon has facts, at least. And to think you passed up the opportunity to draw an actually fired bullet, a nice hollowpiont, expanded, with a little pool of blood around it and everything. Even in your drawings you passed up the opportunity to show facts, and instead drew something that you hoped people would recognize and through you influence come to see as death incarnate.
I'm not impressed, to be honest.
And while you're at it, substitute "gun license test" for "driver's license test".
Maybe you should be reminded that keeping and bearing arms is a right guaranteed by an amendment, and driving a car is not.
Your blog makes me want to punch babies.
Maybe we should outlaw fists and blogs, that should save a few babies.
http://imagesocket.com/view/thisbullet01bc1.jpg
Nitpick away.
Bullets like the ones drawn didn't exist in the Revolutionary War. All blackpowder & patched round balls.
Oh I guess in that case those Revolutionary War soldiers are less dead than ones killed by OMG MODERN BULLETS.
As Ernie said:
This cartoon killed my respect for you.....
You were my second favorite cartoonist, next to Watterson. Were being the operative word.
Those bullets killed no one, they are undeformed, and still in the cases. As such they have obviously been unfired, and would have been unable to kill anyone in the mannor bullets are intended to be used. Unless the victims tried to swallow those bullets and subsequently choked to death, and you are advocating that bullets should have "do not swallow" warnings, your illustration is incorrect.
I guess no one is responsible for their actions anymore. It's merely the fault of an object.
I wish to join your anti-object crusade. Next on our list: really heavy rocks.
The fact of the matter is, there is not enough data or evidence to suggest that the presence of guns in an area increases crime or decreases it.
Don't give me a news story about a person being shot to "prove" something either... because it proves nothing every news story about someone being shot could be countered by hundreds of stories from people who protected themselves.
There are already laws against murder, and rape, and assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm within city limits, Purchase of a firearm by a minor, felon, someone who has a restraining order against them, or someone who has been Adjudicated mentally defective...
there are "laws on the books"
but guess what champ? Laws don't stop crime... because Criminals *gasp* BREAK LAWS....
the police can't stop crime because they can't be everywhere at once...
Guns exist. Fact
Crime exists. Fact
Criminals will use whatever methods are most effective to commit crimes. Fact.
Gun laws do not prevent crime. Fact.
The artist needs to take a step back, open his mind, and actually look at the numbers from an objective source. (PSST the brady campaign is not an objective source, neither is the NRA or most "crime prevention" groups whose message is "Guns are bad") We live in a world of Facts. Ignoring them because they are unpleasant is foolish at best, and dangerous at worst.
Also absent from Ohio:
-Restrictions on minors possessing guns
Federal restrictions prevent minors from purchasing guns and using them without parental supervision. Ohio needs no such laws.
-Limits on number of guns you can buy in a month
Who cares? Why should a law-abiding citizen face a limit of guns purchased? It only takes ONE to kill someone, and criminals sure don't follow purchasing restrictions.
-Ballistic fingerprinting
Look at MD. Didn't work there, won't work in Ohio. It tracks legal purchases and not the criminals. You're targeting the WRONG GROUP.
-Assault weapon restrictions
So what? Despite the fact that they frighten you because of the way they LOOK, these weapons are used in less than 1 in 1000 gun crimes. You're targeting the gun hobbyists, not the criminals.
-Safety training requirements
Accidental death rates are lower than one in one MILLION guns owned. Legal gun owners have a safety record licensed drivers couldn't match in a million years.
-A waiting period.
So what? There is no study anywhere to indicate the prior federal waiting period or any of the state-mandated waiting periods have ever done anything to reduce gun violence. Criminals don't need to legally purchase guns, therefore waiting periods don't apply to them.
The cartoon was high on emotional content, but had nothing to offer in the realm of facts and statistics.
The Second Ammendment protects all the others.
Learn your rights and stop arguing by using fear instead of reason.
This bullet preserved freedom, justice, and the American way, although nobody noticed the bullet. It was the police and the soldiers half a world away that got all the undeserved glory. {/sarcasm}
This comic killed any chance Jim Borgman had of getting respect from anyone besides crazy, uneducated, oblivious right-wing liberal idiots.
Congrats Jim, you sh*t in your own ice cream! Now allow me to piss in your Cheerios.
This liberal's spent .357SIG casing is the only reason my girlfriend is still alive. It's people like you, who make arguments out of hyperbole that give progessive / liberal individuals like me a bad name.
It's all about being responsible.
Perhaps this man should have just invited them in and read the Constitution to them...
KOKOMO, Ind. -- Police said a Kokomo man who answered his door after midnight found two would-be armed robbers on his porch.
But he was armed, too.
Police said one teenager is dead and another teen faces surgery after 61-year-old Michael Slonaker shot both suspects.
The shooting occurred about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Police found 16-year-old Nathan Smith shot in the chest at the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
His alleged accomplice, 17-year-old Justin Smith, went to the hospital with a wounded knee. He was being taken to Indianapolis for surgery.
Slonaker told police he found two white males with a shotgun and a baseball bat waiting when he answered his door. Police say he fired two shots.
Police said Slonaker is licensed to carry a firearm, but he doesn't need a permit to have one in his home.
And this guy should have stayed in the back room, called the police and let the wheels of justice turn... And to think... these two incidents took place in the past day. Bullets are baddddddd!!
ROBERT W. DALTON, Staff Writer
LYMAN -- A home invasion early Wednesday morning ended with two of the intruders dead and a third in custody after one of the residents opened fire with a shotgun.
Travis Earle Anderson, 22, and his brother, Marshall Lashaun Anderson, 28, both of Spartanburg, died after William Rodney Thomas shot them after they broke into the house at 76 Lawrence St. and attacked his roommate, Lee Timothy Freeman.
A Lyman police officer responding to a call at about 2:40 Wednesday morning found Marshall Anderson lying on top of his brother at the bottom of the deck steps at the rear of the home. Travis Anderson died at the scene, while Marshall Anderson died at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, Lyman Police Chief Scott Suttles said.
Spartanburg County Coroner's Investigator Mike Shaw said that Travis Anderson died of a shotgun blast to the chest. Marshall Anderson was shot in the right arm and bled to death, Shaw said.
Travis Anderson was a talented receiver on the Byrnes High School football team and was named to the North-South all-star game following
his senior season in 2001. He signed with Gardner-Webb University.
Police arrested a third man, 21-year-old Nicholas Vandale Oglesby of 1051 Nazareth Road as he tried to drive away. He was charged with assault with intent to kill, aggravated assault and battery and burglary and was awaiting a bond hearing Wednesday night at the Spartanburg County jail.
Oglesby was awaiting trial in Greenville County on criminal domestic violence and second-degree burglary charges, according to his arrest record.
The Anderson brothers and Oglesby were armed with handguns, according to a police report. After they broke into the house, one of the Andersons whipped the 21-year-old Freeman with a pistol, opening a severe cut on his forehead, the report stated.
Thomas, also 21, was in his bedroom and grabbed his shotgun when he heard the commotion, Suttles said. When Travis Anderson opened the bedroom door, Thomas fired the shot that hit him in the chest and then closed the door.
Marshall Anderson then came through the door, and Thomas shot him, Suttles said.
Oglesby fired a shot at Thomas before fleeing, according to a police report. It is unclear whether Thomas returned fire at Oglesby.
Suttles said he didn't know whether Thomas and Freeman knew the suspects.
"We're still investigating that. There are several unanswered questions," Suttles said.
Thomas and Freeman were unavailable for comment.
Suttles said Thomas will not be charged because he killed the Andersons while defending his home.
The violent start to the day stunned area residents, who said the neighborhood is a peaceful one.
"I've been here 34 years, and there's never been anything like this," said Donny Woodward, who lives at 72 Lawrence St. "It's really eye-opening, like a bad storm. You think it will never happen to us, and then it does."
Woodward said that Thomas and Freeman have lived two doors down from him for less than a year. He said that they usually kept to themselves.
Jennifer Anders, who lives next door, said that she's a light sleeper but that she didn't hear the gunshots. She said that Thomas and Freeman often borrowed tools from her husband and were always willing to help out with a project.
She said that Thomas once asked her for a cooking lesson.
"He came over one night to ask how to make broccoli and cheese," she said. "He was cooking dinner for his mom and he wanted to get it right."
Anders said she didn't see Thomas after the shooting, but that she was concerned about how he would cope.
Daniel Morgan Jr., who lives about half a block away, said he doesn't believe the attack was a random one.
"I've lived here four years and there's been no trouble," Morgan said. "They've been here six or eight months and this happens? This is not a freak thing; it happened for a reason."
This cartoon and the person who drew it are so irrational and dimwitted that they become transparent and unimportant. I've long since tuned out the vapid, leftist (I didn't say liberal. Real, dictionary-definition liberals recognize that self defense and gun ownership is a human right) non-thinking fear mongerers like the cartoonist.
Get back to us when you grow a brain and the ability to perceive reality.
Love, Steve.
This really nice and I understand your point, but bullets dont kill people, people kill people...
I understand all of the rhetoric about people kill people although a larger point of this strip may not be simply get rid of bullets or the things that manufacture death (i.e. guns AND bullets) but simply that people are murdered (whether they're good, bad, black, white, rich, poor and the list goes on) and there is some action that can be taken. Even if that action is to alert people to the fact that A BULLET entered a person's body and caused their subsequent death. The gun did not enter their body, the person shooting the gun didn't (although these things have an impact) BULLETS do have an impact, even if people are responsible.
I'm Paul, Grandad left his leg in France in 1917 awarded among other awards The Certificate of The Silver Star from our nation,the Croix de Gueree from France and a wound from Germany that finaly killed him in 1947. Dad was the youngest marine ever awarded the Purple Heart and the youngest known American participant at the battle for Iwo Jima. Uncle John was bayoneted on Saipan. All my uncles also served as did many brothers and uncles and sons who understood the full price of liberty. Our liberty, yours and mine, always has been and always will be preserved by the people who keep and bear arms in defence of it. When WE the People lay down those arms Liberty dies, yours and mine.
The problem with this strip is that you don't have a bullet that 'stopped a murderer' or 'took down a terrorist.'
It's easy to point out the bad in things but it takes one of deeper thinking to see the good in a weapon.
What I see here, deliberately ignoring the talking-down-to-the-artist, is people jumping up to defend the existence of firearms.
Could it be that this reaction is a sort of learned reflex (Like with Pavlov and his dogs?) and not much of a deliberate and opinionated action? ? ?
What I don't see is the conclusion that, sure guns need people to use them for killing - but lets face it: Is there an easier way to kill? You just aim and bend a single finger! Maybe it should be a little harder to achieve? Yes? No?
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