If it makes you feel any better,

[Orrex]

at least we're keeping our powder dry.

[Snotcicles]

1. Oh so dry. nt

[Bettie]

2. Yes, we're always doing that

save it to fight another day...except that day never comes, does it?

[dchill]

3. Yes, we're keeping it with our political courage.

[ret5hd]

4. As I posted in an earlier OP:

Well, heck. What else were we gonna use all that dry powder for anyway?

[Orrex]

5. Whoa.

All this time I've thought that "circular firing squad" meant that each shooter shoots the person to their left (or right).

I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE!!!!!!1!

[Bucky]

9. Have you never been before a firing squad?

They shoot forward.

If everyone on a firing squad shot to the left, then the whole squad (save one) would be killed and the accused prisoner would probably not be.

[Orrex]

10. If they're in a circle, then everyone is to someone's left

And there's no accused prisoner in the picture shown, so...

[Bucky]

11. the picture is of a circular firing squad, as the cliche describes

I was only joking around. But seriously, firing squads shoot forward. The metaphor is pretty clear. What you described, everyone shooting to the left, would be a "daisy-chain firing squad." And that could potentially involve an entirely different form of 'shooting'.

[Orrex]

12. Zing!

[elleng]

6. 'Thanks,'

was thinking the same thing.

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

7. When they go low...

...we cry "Please don't hurt us!"