Is this why you like guns so much? >:3

He's stated in other comics that guns are a great equalizer- it makes it so everyone who has one is either superior (to those without guns or without the knowledge of how to use them properly) or an equal (Those who do).

I got a BB gun once, but my dad took it to scare pigeons of his backyard garden. Shoot I could have become a vigilante one day.

the minister of justice eh? that'd be a helluva getup *thinks of costume designs*

it's an educational thing ^^

"OH SHI-"

how I love to hear that cut off phrase.

That works only if the other oppnet dosent have a bigger gun then you do. Expect you are The Soldier from TF2 that is crazy enough to kill people with a Spade.....

I had a BB gun when I was younger, too. Mine couldn't hit anything past about 20m, the barrel was kinda gross and put a nasty spin on BBs. Never tried pellets. Then someone shot me in the leg with his .223. Then my mom found out and she took it away, took away my knives, and wouldn't let my play any computer game that had any violence in it at all. For some reason, I still managed to get into a number of fights at school, but never started them. Now I have guns, knives, and video games, but I don't particularily care for her.

You have a lot better judgement than she did.

Hehe, my family is full of hunters and sportsmen long back as we can reckon. Yep good ol southern hick family. YEEEEHAW! Er... or something like that. Anyway, so, yeah, guns have always been a part of my life. Luckily, despite being idiots about most things, they were always very very keen on using firearms safely and responsibly. So now, I have a rather noticeable collection of these utilities myself. Thank god for living in the southwest, where guns are still commonplace, easy to get ahold of legally, and the violent crime rate is exceptionally low (you know, compared to places like DC, Maryland, NY, etc where guns are illegal and violent crime is as common as hair).

"You'll shoot yer eye out, kid!" ;)

"when a couple of guys, who were up to no good, started makin' trouble in mah neighborhood... So I shot them repeatedly!"

lol that comic is funny

Wait... YOU did the Savage Squirrel comics? o_o

I have two issues in an old shoebox somewhere. Got em from a friend in my younger years, never could find any more.

BEAUTIFUL.

Ugh,what the anti-gun lobby would do with this. >_<

A little crazy perhaps, but so long as he checks his targets before-hand...

Haha, awesome Karno ^..^

I have a feeling that me and Savage would get on rather well!

Wardy

DUDE! This is the BEST origin story of any superhero EVER!

I see you carry over the Stan lee tradition of name creating, which is always keep the first letters of the character's first and last name the same whenever possible.

I should also mention that something about him, not just the fact that he is a squirrel, really reminds me of Conker.

Savage was there first, and I got the copyrighted and dated comix to prove it. Conker's the copy.

Oh, no doubt, I was just commenting on the similar design. I think if anything, the reason they look similar is because they both have that crazy look on their face from time to time.

Anouther interesting question is where and how SS manages to get a hold of all the guns and other ordinence he uses, not to mention the buckets of ammo for his bullets. Even if he had a good supplyer then how would he afford it all unless it was 'donated' to him?

Just idle question from someone who never sleeps. :b

Perhaps his neighbors like his taste in targets and give him a helping hand. I know that I'd be delighted if he were the boy next door. He'd fit right into my neighborhood, though he'd have to drive to Las Vegas to find bad guys to annihilate.

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Not much of a secret. ;P

I remember this from one comic

I always did Like Savage Squirel. Like when he shot the pedophile dude "I love kids" "Yea too much" BLAM

Geez guy, I know its only humour but...

You know what societies where everyone has a gun to protect themselves are like, don't you? They're like Albania, Southern Lebanon, or Alberia, where people *are* protecting themselves from each other, all the time. Real freedom is being able to walk down the street and not worry whether there's some nut next to you with a shotgun down his leg or dynamite tied around his waist who's on his way to *protect* himself, his tribe, or his religion.

Cherry-picking straw-man argument, there. I see you carefully left Switzerland out of your armed-citizen states list. Concentrating all of a country's firepower in government hands (which is what a "gun ban" IS, don't forget) rarely ends well. Check out "Great" Britain. Their government banned all civilian gun posession. See how safe you feel on their streets. Didn't work out so well in Germany, either (and Germany in the 20's was one of the most civilized, liberal places around). It's great that you feel you can trust your government with your - well, everything, basically. But times and governments change. Hell, I already went thru all this in my Gun Control Rant. Go check it out, if you haven't already.

Switzerland also doesn't let citizens carry their guns around, or leave them sitting around in the house. The Swiss aren't armed to "protect" themselves from imagined minorities or the criminal element. It's part of their arrangements to create a casual standing army, and I suspect a good number of Swiss wish they could avoid the whole responsibility.

But it is conceivable that a peaceful and civilized society could have a sizable number of armed citizens, who were mainly interested in it for sport, target shooting, historical collecting. I don't know how likely it is that a large number of people would just happen to have those interests though.

My dispute is with arguments that contend that arms are necessary for "protection".

Oh... and with gangs of red-shirts and brown-shirts roving around the streets and inciting riots with clubs and sticks (and occasional pistols), I don't know how civilized I'd call 20's Germany, and Liberal is was a long, far cry from.

If the Nazi gun laws hadn't disarmed the foolishly law-abiding Jews, Krystalnacht would have been the end of the Third Reich instead of the beginning of the end for Jews in Europe.

They are also like my home in central Nevada where there is essentially no crime at all.

I doubt very much the minority of Jews could have overthrown the third reich if the Nazis were determined to fight them in the streets... as the were willing to fight the "reds". When two irreconciable sides are willing to escalate with no end, and fight to the death, escalation may be the only option that prevents carnage.

If I wanted to be snarky about it, which I don't, I could make a big deal of the current situation in Israel, where the Israelis can't seem to overcome a minority of Palestinians no matter how much firepower they bring to bear on them. I'm not even sure whose point it would support -- yours or mine. The Palestinians are equally incapable of preventing Israeli attacks on their people. It seems to me that armed stalmates are just to be avoided if at all possible.

There's virtually no crime in most places in North America or Western Europe if you come down to it. You can pick up the paper or turn on the news and hear about muggings, stabblings, drive-bys, swarmings, crazed pederastic murders and the whole nine yards. But it's a handful of incidents out of millions of people, and even added up over a year the odds are very great that Spiderman watching over us from the roof of some building would never actually see a crime in the commission so he could swoop down to the rescue.

My first gun was when I was 7 and it was a .45 cal Tompson Center....

My first gun was a home-made one-shot pistol my brother made out of a BB gun. He cut the barrel short and used the loading part but modified it to shoot .22 bullets instead of pellets. He made the firing mechanism and the handle from scratch.

The first day we tried it I got shot in the knee.

By the way, Karno, I think I got the cold from you.

Really? Then you can't say I never gave you anything!

I would never say that. You give us great comics and cartoons all the time.

Of Course, old friend, you knew you would get at least one hand-wringing cry about this piece of fiction. You also know that I love it. (the fiction and the Liberal hand-wringing) NO ONE WHO WOULD PROTECT IT'S CITIZEN'S FREEDOMS WOULD DISARM THOSE CITIZENS! Oh, Yeah, we must shoot the cannon and 1919 soon!

Heh, it just goes to show you, if you can't outmuscle 'em, outthink, or at least outGUN them :P

Here is his good neighbor award!
http://www.hkpro.com/mp5k.htm

Damn.

So... giving young children guns as toys turns them into murderous psychotics as adults?  I dunno; it sounds about right, but maybe there's something more complex at work here.