Crying Over Spilt Beer
I adapted.
And look at me now. I used to work in the Associated Press office directly across from Union Station in Kansas City, and I drink beer out of a mug now, and when 20-people-and-change get shot at a celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win, I don't even get mad. I don't get sad, either.
Missouri has almost no gun laws.
"I bet the shooters didn't use legal guns," a friend says.
There's no such thing as a "legal gun" or an "illegal gun." They're guns, and there is no illegal gun factory.
There were over 800 police officers at the Chiefs' event, but the good guys with guns didn't stop the bad guys with guns.
In America, guns are so heavily intertwined with fantasy that there's no sense in trying to separate the two, not anymore.
Beer in a schooner. Shots fired into a crowd. Guess which one was too expensive?
To find out more about Marc Dion, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Dion's latest book, a collection of his best columns, is called "Mean Old Liberal." It is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, and iBooks.
