Friday Funnies: Banning Plastic Guns

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[invisible furry hand]

What the fuck are those humanoids on the right meant to be? MOAR LABELZ!

[Fist of Etiquette]

There's a waste basket full of printed guns, and yet he's just now reading they're illegal. Why would you throw away all your printed guns before finding out they've been outlawed? I think his Nancy Pelosi wig is on too tight.

[invisible furry hand]

You don't throw away illegal plastic printed guns - you flush them down the toilet. I really do despair of these cartoonists if they can't get even this simple detail right.

[UnCivilServant]

The whole point of a plastic gun is that you melt them down and reuse the plastic for something else. You don't flush or toss them.

[Knarf Yenrab (prev. An0nB0t)]

No one would melt down a 3D-printed plastic pistol. You take out the firing pin and put mini M&Ms; in the barrel, then display them prominently in your home as conspicuous evidence of your enlightened nature.

[Ken Shultz]

"There's a waste basket full of printed guns, and yet he's just now reading they're illegal. Why would you throw away all your printed guns..."

I don't think it's supposed to be a waste basket.

I think it's supposed to be a basket that catches all the guns as they're printed.

I think the point is that it doesn't matter that the government has banned plastic guns--the government can't do anything to stop these people from printing as many guns as they want anyway.

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Join with us in our condemnation of the consistently non-humorous Friday Unfunnies.

THIS IS WHY THERE ARE NO FUNNY LIBERTARIANS

[Ken Shultz]

Is the guy with the beard supposed to be Al Qaeda?

[UnCivilServant]

Which, the monk or the one with the oversized brain?

[db]

Don't mock the externally-cortexed.

[Ken Shultz]

Yeah, see, I think it's all about the fecklessness of Congress, i.e., the government to enforce their will on us.

And if it makes people think about it, then it's an even better cartoon.

I mean, the whole world can't be Garfield, right?

[UnCivilServant]

Of course, then that's open to interpretation. I personally prefer this version: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

It's more relatable than a morbidly obese cat.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Penn Jillette is funny.

[Generic Stranger]

Drew Carey used to be funny...

[Generic Stranger]

Holy shit, he also used to be skinny.

[Jordan]

Damn, he used to look like a total badass.

[Kaptious Kristen]

I'll be in my bunk

[sarcasmic]

I think the point is that it doesn't matter that the government has banned plastic guns--the government can't do anything to stop these people from printing as many guns as they want anyway.

THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! NO ONE COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT ON THEIR OWN! WE OWE YOU A GREAT DEBT!

[Ken Shultz]

It wasn't obvious to me!

I'm still not sure I got it right.

[sarcasmic]

It's the same idea as someone with several guns strapped to their back walking up to a school and upon seeing the "Gun Free Zone" sign hanging their head and going home.

[yooper]

laws don't prevent crimes, at least by real criminals

[Ken Shultz]

Seriously, sarcastically showing terrorists trashing those guns because they're illegal wasn't the first thing I saw.

It can be hard to spoof ridiculous beliefs that are so widely held. It's like trying to spoof Tony. You cannot spoof Tony saying something so ridiculous that Tony would never say it. And then it becomes hard to tell if you're serious.

If you were trying to spoof Tony, I bet half the people here would assume you were being serious. That your spoof was the real deal.

The idea that the bad guys are all going to trash their guns because the government tells them to may be ridiculous--but it's also what like 70% of the people out there intuitively believe.

[sarcasmic]

So you're saying that 70% of the people out there are complete morons? If so, then why haven't 70% of New Yorkers registered their guns?

[Ken Shultz]

I'd bet that more than 70% of the people out there intuitively think that the government banning something will make it go away.

"Then why haven't 70% of New Yorkers registered their guns?"

I didn't say it was rational. I said that's what they intuitively think.

[0x90]

Neither rationality nor intuition enter into the question -- thought simply stops occurring after the initial impulse to agree that "there ought to be a law."

It's not that people believe in unicorns, it's that they fail to disbelieve in them.

[H. ReardEn]

I always get a kick out of art interpretation. Shows how one's bias dictates their perception. Thank for your input, Ken, but this cartoon is an obvious allegory of the feminist 'Final Solution' where they use the concentrated power of the state to round up all alpha males into concentration camps where their destructive influence on society can be eliminated, yet their sperm can be collected for procreation in an effort to perfect the female form. A 'Master Feminist', if you will.

I guess Bok should use more labels. Maybe then you'd get it.

[Ken Shultz]

I don't think the labels as a bad thing--dude's going for a general audience!

Not everything can be pitched directly to the reasonoid commentariat either.

[UnCivilServant]

Anything pitched to the commentariat will be viciously torn asunder by the uncaring swarm.

[H. ReardEn]

Ken - The 'straight guy' act on the Friday Funnies comment board is ruining my day.

[alan_s]

Okay, now you are totally harshing everyone's buzz.

[Logical 1]

If you have to explain it . . .
It's not fucking funny

[JWatts]

Well, maybe, but the explanations are kind of amusing.

[Austrian Anarchy]

You insensitive person, Pelosi is obviously fresh out of the shower and that is a towel wrapped around her hair. Not her wig!

[Snark Plissken]

Worst FF ever?

[Andrew S.]

It's a Friday Funny. The standards aren't exactly high. But I kind of like this one.

[BakedPenguin]

Yeah, at least it's on point.

[Snark Plissken]

Oh those are terrorists, I didn't notice that at first. That does redeem it somewhat.

[UnCivilServant]

I don't see any terrorists. Where's our IRA congrescritter or president drones-a-lot?

[prolefeed]

Worst FF ever?

that would require the black hole of unfunny. FFs tend to suck a LOT.

[sage]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Swiss Servator, Alps avast!]

Thank you for laughing on behalf of all us. I just couldn't muster it up for this one.

[Floridian]

Are the printers an Islamic terrorist and a French resistance fighter? How am I supposes to know? Maybe if we had some sort of indication system with arrows and text. Oh well. A man can dream....A man can dream.

[Austrian Anarchy]

If he were a French resistance fighter, there would be a hammer and cycle on his uniform. That man appears to be a member of French organized crime from last year's season of Castle.

[Austrian Anarchy]

cycle, sickle, whatever

[BakedPenguin]

Tour de French resistance fighter.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Tour de French resistance fighter bank robber.

[BakedPenguin]

It's a slow getaway, but if he can keep up with the peloton, he'll have a place to hide.

[Austrian Anarchy]

Stalin began his political career robbing banks, but you need to get caught a few times to get street cred.

[Spoonman.]

My standards are low, this isn't an abomination.

[UnCivilServant]

Sadly, I think someone (or many someones) believes this is exactly what happens when a government bans something.

[JWatts]

Well, if it fails to work, we can always add a new regulation to fix it. 😉

[some guy]

Come on Bok. You seriously couldn't work "Stop the presses!" into this one? It was begging for it!

[UnCivilServant]

But then we'd be picking on him for not realizing that there are no presses involved in 3D-printing. It's a lose-lose, so he took the route that didn't make him look as dumb. (Aside from reworking the underlying cartoon)

[some guy]

Fine. "Stop the Extruders!"

[db]

I just got a text from Franklin Roosevelt asking if there's any way we can send some sweaters and hot chocolate.

[UnCivilServant]

Oh no, I thought the ritual we used to prevent him from rising as a lich worked!

Alert Zombie Teddy, we have to put FDR back in the ground before it's too late!

[BlueBook]

The printer says 3-D but the guns look two dimensional.

[mr lizard]

No, they just fire 2D bullets.

[UnCivilServant]

Those would not be very effective at killing people. Sure, they'd cut through armor pretty neatly, but the wounds wouldn't be nearly as fatal.

[db]

It's like building a neutrino cannon.

[some guy]

Even neutrinos can be lethal if you get hit by enough of them.

[db]

I didn't say neutrinos cannon.

/pedant

[Andrew S.]

Depends on where you shoot?

[JWatts]

"Those would not be very effective at killing people. Sure, they'd cut through armor pretty neatly, but the wounds wouldn't be nearly as fatal."

Well that would depend on the width.

[a better weapon]

I can't possibly see my wife being comfortable in those 3D printed heels.

I guess the technology just isn't there yet.

[sarcasmic]

It's getting there.

[Certified Public Asskicker]

When women can print things to the exact size they need, will there be less bitching?

[Snark Plissken]

More bitching...about closet space.

[JWatts]

Nope.

"Honey the closet was full. So, I put all your shoes in the shredder. If you need a pair for tonight, you'll need to print out a new pair. Oh, and the printer is out of Black plastic, so call me if I need to stop by Walmart on the way home and buy some more."

[Knarf Yenrab (prev. An0nB0t)]

Have more options in anything ever led to decreased rates of bitching?

[Bee Tagger]

I think Peggy Fleming would point out that just because you have a pair of plastic ice skates hot off the presses, it doesn't guarantee you a gold medal.

[Edwin]

I like how in the discussion of plastic guns it's left out that they're completely useless pieces of crap

[JWatts]

Hmm, ok, but what about using one of these:

"A group of scientists at Michigan Technological University have developed a low-cost 3D printer capable of producing steel objects "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec.....inter.html

[Brendan]

As I understand it, the thing that passed was an extension of the existing ban, and does not ban printed guns as long as they have a certain amount of metal in them.

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