And They're Off

Benjamin

:(

Ash359

Hey look, they are actually trying to make murder drones a thing in SF. https://youtu.be/-BguChcYsT4 WOW

Clifton Royston

Thanks for the references. Seems like the QC universe might not be quite as comfy and stable as I'd been thinking.

Diptych

I'm not sure any therapy would stop police officers from being domestic abusers. Not in itself, at least.

Rodrigo Ourcilleon

Thanks Towelie.

Sarah Schnell

The song's in my head now, no way I'm sleeping tonight with that perky li'l earworm!

Some Ed

It's probably worth noting that every time the politicians do address gun violence, they seem to be intent on avoiding the real issue. "Let's ban all `assault rifles`, by which we mean guns which meet this one very specific superficial description of all of the assault rifles on the market, yet *lacks* the details of what gun enthusiasts feel makes something an assault rifle." Of course, even banning guns with a semi-auto or full auto receiver and a long barrel wouldn't really do anything, because the real problem is that we don't deal with domestic violence well. After all, we can't address that since it would mean sending a bunch of police officers to therapy. I'm not even sure we know what the appropriate therapy would look like. (To be clear, I feel confident that there are mental health professionals who do. Unfortunately, I'm also confident tat there are mental health professionals who don't but believe they do. Also, more importantly, we have a lot of politicians who are not going to ever admit that they don't, despite having no background that would suggest they had an above-average competency in this regard.)

Diptych

(Also, I'm not sure that the comparison to drugs holds true, unless you're suggesting ArmaLite and co. are going to move their manufacturing plants offshore and start smuggling big bags of rifles into the country in custom speedboats or the wheel wells of people's cars.)

Diptych

I'm looking at Australia right now. It's just outside my window. Our homicide rate is a fraction of America's. The UK's is only a little bit higher - still well below the USA's. If we're talking about not addressing issues, is there any topic that American politicians love to dodge harder than gun control? It's always thoughts and prayers, some nebulous talk about mental health that demonises patients, and a steadfast refusal to even consider restricting gun access.

Ash359

Yeah that would work out great. It's how they won the war on drugs. However, criminals are going to criminal anyway. Look at Australia and the UK, they don't need guns to be violent there. UK is trying to ban knives now American society is sick and blaming guns is just the politicians way of not addressing the real issues

Diptych

If murder drones are illegal, you can halt the production of murder drones and prevent them from ever reaching the hands of drone murderers (people who murder with drones, not people who murder drones). Thus, regardless of drone murderers' willingness to follow anti-murder laws, you can still reduce the drone murder rate.

Ash359

That's a great example, no matter how many laws they pass, murderers still break them, they also seem to like to do mass murders where guns aren't allowed.

@Ash359 So if I understand your logic correctly: murder drones don't kill people, the people who program murder drones kill people. Well that thinking's really worked out well for the US and gun laws, hasn't it :/

FuryoftheStars

@Adam D: My understanding of Ash's comment was neither of those, but rather that making murder drones illegal does not mean that there won't be murder drones, and/or that you shouldn't have to explicitly make murder drones illegal seems their primary function (murder) is already illegal, thus by extension making the drones illegal.

Ash359

Assuming you are safe from murder drones because they are banned. You don't see the flaw in that logic? Do you think someone willing to commit murder would be concerned about breaking a drone possession law?

NotEnufDog

I'm very confused by your complaints. Are you saying that there's no point in making murder illegal because it wouldn't make all murder stop? Or that people should be allowed to do literally whatever they want until it literally becomes murder?

Marty BlackEagle

thanks, i missed the handle. good eyes!!

Douglas E. Smith

And there has been a Vespa-bot and Pintsize's laser module. Add that to Bubbles' military experience and I'd say it was a certainty pre-Singularity. Post-singularity there may be more complications, but I still think there's got to be a few.

Douglas E. Smith

Hoopy froods, the pair of them.

Peabody

Don't forget the towel.

Ash359

Because when you make something illegal, it magically creases to exist. Murder is already illegal but murder drones have to be banned separately. That logic is divorced from reality

Pejo

It's true but he shouldn't say it dot jpg

Pejo

It's her slight overbite for me 😍

Andrew

Sam packed his bag full of snakes.

Carin Maja Brooks

I'm sure Jeff won't do it (or if he does, it'll be Martin), but plane travel is just associated with being groped by TSA for my trans ass. Once again, though, I'm sure Claire will be fine

Daniel Rydberg

Woo! Lets gooo!

Good catch, I totally didn’t notice upon initial read-through

Minzoku Bokumetsu

his bag is under Claire's in the first panel, and mostly off-screen in panel 2

Seth Aaron Hershman has they she pronouns

He's got a suitcase!

Bagge

Smug Claire in the last panel is so beautiful

Marty BlackEagle

what did Marten pack, chapstick only?

Captain Button

We know Station has a pack of Merciless Hunter-Killer Droids. https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2135

Clifton Royston

Claire clearly isn't very experienced as a traveler, because she is only carrying emergency socks and emergency undies in her backpack. Once I'd had an airline lose all my checked luggage for days, I started also carrying an emergency shirt and often pants in my carry-on bag.

Captain Button

And they were never heard from again.

Clifton Royston

Is murder-drone an actual thing in the QC universe, or is Marten just kidding around? And if they do have them, are they anything like the charming Destroybots in Skin Horse?

Andrew

But what about trained murder-mooses?