What??? Like I noted when I posted the joke, it was sent to me by a conservative who's a prolific node in the Rightwing Smear Network. So if there's any demonizing going on, it's conservatives doing it.

Sure it's funny, it follows a standard humor template; it's a variation on an old style of bigoted humor that targets one group for suggestions of violence. Its significance comes against the backdrop of rightwingers disingenuously protesting that they're not violent and don't hate anyone...assertions belied by their actions and the casual expressions of violence.

And my comment about the second amendment wasn't random. It was a way of saying "and these people demand the right to go around armed to the teeth? How stupid do they think we are???".

I don't trust rightwingers. Jokes like this reveal the truth behind the denials of a propensity for violence. There won't be political peace in America until rightwingers drop the belligerence. What are the odds?