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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
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Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial
Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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There were less fatal pitbull attcks on babies in the US than there were school shootings in 2023.
Both forms of child killing don't have to be a thing.
If 8 child deaths in a year is enough to ban a breed the states should have banned weapons, cars and any forms of drugs and poisons decades ago.
That's just the shootings with injuries or deaths. The total number of school shootings is way more impressive. Thanks for putting things into perspective though. A few dozen kids are an acceptable sacrifice, to keep a breed that is more likely to bite without warning or apparent reason and not let go. Also, check out this statistic to feel even more safe about the dog breed that's apparently responsible for 50% of reconstructive surgery cases for children.
With 8 in a year it isn't even in the top ten leading causes of death for kids in the US. I remember when it was German Shepherds, then Dobermans. How many of those dogs weren't trained, and how many of those kids were allowed to fuck with the dogs? These numbers are completely out of context.
Training your dangerous dog isn't a requirement to owning it and kids naturally do stupid shit. That's not a good reason to handwave kids getting mauled or killed. Pitbulls especially will just randomly decide to bite something on occasion, not because something genuinely threatened them. A kid getting overly excited (or scared) of a dog isn't some reasonable excuse for the kid getting hurt. Looking at the statistics by breed, it's not even close. Sure there are other dangerous breeds out there, but Pitbulls are relatively popular, owned by idiots who think they are just the cutest little angels (until they bite something they shouldn't) and were literally bred for their dangerous bite. It should not be a surprise to anyone when that leads to 66% of the all time deaths to dog bites. There are multiple independent studies, showing that they are responsible for about half of all dog bite related injuries and then they have one of the highest rates of severe injuries, because their bite is really powerful and they tend to latch on for longer. There are plenty of breeds who don't even make the statistic, despite their popularity.