January 18, 2013
By Tony Auth
The NRA would have us believe that our problem is not too many guns; it's not enough guns in the hands of "good guys." They're missing a very important point.
Good people have bad days. We all get depressed, angry with the people we love, fly into rages about matters small and large. It's the presence of guns that sends the odds through the roof that any of these events will end in death.
After 40 years as editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he garnered more than his share of both awards and hate mail, Tony Auth decided that the time had come to broaden the range of his commentary. There is, after all, so much more to life than politics.
What he needed was a new venue. What he found was WHYY, and NewsWorks, where he is now its first Digital Artist in Residence.
Stay tuned.
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