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Archie Dies From Gunshot Wound

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(courtesy archiecomics.com)This is one of those stories that I checked the date on, and no, it’s not an April Fool’s joke. Veronica and Betty’s redheaded boy toy Archie Andrews will die from a gunshot wound in July’s LIFE WITH ARCHIE #36,. The guy whose band topped the charts with Sugar Sugar will meet his Maker via gunfire, ending the “flash forward” series and proving that no, there isn’t life after High School. At least not for Archie, who buys the farm saving a pal from a bad guy. No word on whether or not Mayors Against Illegal Guns will include Mr. Andrews in their roll call of victims of “gun violence.” Archie Comics Publisher/Co-CEO Jon Goldwater’s statement after the jump . . .

We’ve been building up to this moment since we launched LIFE WITH ARCHIE five years ago, and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie’s life as an adult had to also show his final moment.

Archie has and always will represent the best in all of us—he’s a hero, good-hearted, humble and inherently honorable. This story is going to inspire a wide range of reactions because we all feel so close to Archie.

Fans will laugh, cry, jump off the edge of their seats and hopefully understand why this comic will go down as one of the most important moments in Archie’s entire history. It’s the biggest story we’ve ever done, and we’re supremely proud of it.

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Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. The Five-seveN function is the complementary sidearm for the P90/PS90. By itself, I can understand the meh attitude. I owned both before the tragic boating accident and they are a fun and easy to shoot. Is it worthless if it is fun?

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  2. Uh, let’s try that again:

    1) Marriage: The only thing government has to do with marriage is issue a certificate verifying that you were in fact married, so that you can be taxed accordingly and so that you gain the legal benefits of being a spouse. That’s it. The government doesn’t have a say in who (aside from gay marriage, but whatever you think about it, pretty sure government mandates aren’t the answer), where, when, or how you marry someone.

    2) Children: The government has no role in anyone having children. You have to get them an SSN for tax purposes. They don’t get to tell anyone when to have kids, how to raise them (aside from abuse or neglect), or where they can raise them.

    3) Homes: Admittedly, there are plenty of building codes. But at no time does the government have a say in what kind of home you can buy, how big it can be, when you can build or live in it, or what you do to it.

    4) Cars: Cars are only regulated so far as they go on PUBLIC roadways. I can build a V12 go-cart with 30″ wheels and lawnmower blade wheel scythes if I want, so long as I only drive it on private property.

    5) Dogs: Government does seem to want to regulate dogs like they regulate guns. Fat lot of good it’s done anyone. Now anyone who owns a pit bull is looked at like a criminal because they had the audacity to get a happy, loving dog just because some drug dealers and dog fighting rings abused them into weapons. Sounds a lot like an AWB doesn’t it?

    As Ron White might point out, you can’t fix stupid.

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  3. In another “gun free zone” a mentally unsound person knows he has soft targets unable to defend themselves so he attacks, just as happened in the Houston area. The mentally sound, criminals, and Muslim jihadists do not want an armed populace. The Democrats do not want an armed populace.

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  4. Give me one GOOD reason why I need to register any of these things and I’ll also ask why they are subject to regulation. I don’t have children, I’m not married, and I don’t have a home. This infuriates me, why these people think I need their permission to own something or to marry somebody, or to have a child. Seems to me we were just fine a long time ago when they weren’t all up in out business.

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  5. One talking head relayed “its cost prohibitive to place a police officer at every school” This is absolute bullshit. If schools can pay for a crossing guard at schools they can afford a cop. Perhaps Safe Routes to School (SRTS) could pony up some coin (850 million) they’re extorting from the taxpayers.

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  6. I quit reading this comic back in the early ’70s. Someone please tell me Archie scored with Veronica before he spits the bit? I mean he’s been after her, like, forever.

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    • Well, in one of the two timelines featured in this comic he married Veronica, so they’ve presumably been doing the horizontal mambo for some time.

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  7. Sugar, ah, honey, honey
    You are my candy girl
    And you got me wanting you
    Honey, ah, sugar, sugar
    You are my candy girl
    And you got me wanting you

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  8. Yeah Don; just like the killers at Columbine were using improvised explosives to have a much higher body count. All it takes is the evil will, they will find a way.

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  9. Mentioned this to my co-workers. One of them handed me something called The Afterlife of Archie… What’s with all the parallel universes?

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  10. To: Chair of the Assembly Health Committee Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan)
    Re: Regulating Marriage, Children, Houses, Cars, Dogs and Guns

    Your entire state of mind is viscerally abhorrent to me.

    Truly,
    John

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  11. As much as I hate the ATF… this does make sense. An 80% lower is literally just raw materials by definition, this seems to be crossing that line a little bit.

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  12. Makes sense, manufacturers can create lowers that are more than 80% complete by using a different material to fill the fire control cavity, which would be assisting in the manufacturing. I don’t know if ARES uses a different material, but in theory they could use a much softer or easier to remove polymer to fill the cavity, making it easier to finish. What doesn’t make sense is why multiple manufacturing companies were not notified of this consideration. But we all know it’s because the ATF finally figured out another way to clamp down on these companies without giving reasonable counsel on approved manufacturing methods. ARES was always guilty, the ATF just had to figure out what they were guilty of.

    It’s a stupid regulation to begin with, but their vague language paid off for the ATF, or at least it looks like it will pay off for the BATFE. They are obviously in the “collections” business and don’t really care about clarifying approved business activities to businesses.

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  13. had my SR45 for a year now, just shy of 2500 rounds no issues. installed Trijicon night sights fall of last year, love em’. carry it it a Safariland multi-fit paddle holster, and retention is excellent and fit is perfect. aimed fire groups at 20 yards are sub-three inch and rapid fire at 10 yards is 4″. i’m tickled.

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  14. In addition to all the above comments, a good argument can also be made that a reason to not regulate guns, is that they are they may well be the last resource available to prevent this guy from regulating the other areas.

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    • No kidding. There is no area of our lives these tools would leave untouched. Seems like every day, you wake up and think about what tax needs to be paid today, what needs to be registered or inspected, or what license you have to apply for. Just when I was getting over the irritation of registering my car and motorcycle year after year, they slapped another one on me. Because my bike is used for off road as well as on, I have to have it registered for trail now, too. Not that I’m going to comply. Let them catch me out there in the muck.

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  15. I’m a little disgusted we’re sitting here having a “reasonable,” “common-sense” discussion of something that shouldn’t even BE!

    What the F ever happened to “The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed?”

    We shouldn’t be accepting that kind of tyrannical crap!

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  16. If even kids just “know” that inert pieces of metal have anything at all to do with “health”, that says more about the quality of teaching at “our” public indoctrination institutions, than about anything related either guns or safety.

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  17. when your children recite the 4 safety rules to their friends

    when you have meet ups with other self-described “gun nuts” and you don’t know each other’s government names

    when you know the gun laws of several states

    when you walk into a bldg. and determine whether the “no gun” sign has force of law or is of correct dimensions

    when Shannon Watts gives you street cred for posting her home, I mean corporate HQ address

    when gun reviews on youtube mention you by screen name

    when other commentors on a certain gun blog look for your specific postings for a good chuckle

    when you get invited to do a gun review

    when you have a significant holster collection in your closet to “dress around” your gun

    when you ask your wife if you are printing

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  18. When you buy ammo for a gun that you don’t have (or have in kit form), but are planning on getting in the future.

    Would the fact that I made a “gun” that fires 1/4″ ball bearings using firecrackers for propellant count as being a gun nut?

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  19. What I’d like to see is a polymer 80% lower that can be soaked in a solvent to manufacture it into a 100% lower. Maybe a plastic that can be optically developed into disolvable and non-disolvable parts using paper shadow masks.

    -D

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  20. Most of you “breaking the law” types are really mistaken. First of all, these are ATF regulations, not laws. The Constitution IS the law, and it only allows the federation “government” to regulate commerce in order to FACILITATE it, not to restrict it. This is why these people are at war against the Constitution. It is what CONSTITUTES our legal system, so if statutes and regulations oppose it, then THEY are illegal.

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  21. I am from Europe but after I saw : The wolf of wallstreet I was so disapointed about the american middle class and average people. This fims puts the americans in a verry bad light and I think it’s the true . The american society looked like a bunch of retards or children who were playng with the money and had no porpuse just to satisfy a hilariois childish behaviour. I was thinking : don’ t put knifes or rocks into their hand because they will kill eachother. Guns : it should be anny gun in Usa except the army and the police.

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  22. You must not be very bright if you register all your gats. After/during the war many people hid their good stuff while giving a clunker or two to the UN (sorta like gun “buy-backs”). Mainly because the UN/NATO troops would think “we checked that place already, there is nothing left there”.

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  23. If my “group” at 15 yds with a pocket pistol is smaller than my hand, I call it “good.” If I can do a mag dump shooting as fast as I can with the same gun and they are all within the outline of the target figure, I call it “f*ckin’ amazing.” That’s my “measuring” lesson for today.

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  24. you bunch of corrupt inbred barefoot money bought politicians, punish the criminals and stop punishing and jerking law abiding gun owners. how far can you push stupid? what is mentally wrong with you politicians? i am done with this corrupt infested state! i am going to take a loss and put my house on the market. i would rather live in an apartment in PA than have a house in NY! my advice to all people is to leave this dirty state!

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  25. “even after a restraining order was issued against such action…”

    The restraining order basically meant the ATF had to stop bothering them unless they got a warrant. They got a warrant. The restraining order then meant dick, legally.

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  26. it amuses me that people think the 9th and 10th amendment mean much of anything….too vague. And fit into exactly why some of the drafters of the Constitution opposed a bill of rights….it tends the other way.

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