Luckovich/AJ-C: "Try THIS baby!"

Tom Tomorrow/TMW: Officer Friendly Takes Charge

Stephan Pastis/PBS: Nothing to see here...

Jen Swenson/Freelance: Jump Right IN!

Horsey/LAT: A Whole 'Nother Time

A yer ol' perfesser rememberzzit, there weren't any scary "colored folk" in Mayberry, there wasn't any poverty, there wasn't any unemployment, or addiction, or actual crime. They let harmless ol' Rufus or Cletus or Brutus sleep it off in the jail once in a while. They made light of Barney's gun.
These days, Mayberry's a center for open-carry White militias, ultra-survivors, and evangelical Teahadists. Everybody's packin'...

Clay Bennett/Chat. T-FP: Situation Room

Clay Bennett/Chat T-FP: Protective Cover

Clay Bennett/Chat TF-P: Equal access

Toles/WaPo: Arm Black People?

Rogers/PP-G: "The Horror, the HORROR!"

T. Tomorrow/TMW: "Some Mistakes Were Made"

Lukovich/AJC: Depends on what "State" means...

G. Trudeau/Doonesbury: "Conservative Humor?"

Bagley/SLC Trib: T'rowback