Fact is, humor IS tough to use when a lot of the issues around gun control are definitely NOT funny.
Take this story- Last year in Chicago, a man went into a Lane Bryant store and took four or five women hostage. They were all unarmed (and had unknowingly been training their entire lives to be sheep).
They did exactly as he told them to do; they went to the back where he took money, they got on their knees with their hands behind their heads, and they sat there as he capped them all.
How do you turn that into a quirky sketch?
You don't.
You have to know when to go serious and when to go humorous.
If you want an example of a parent with a heartbreaking story who is on our side, Channon Christian's dad is a perfect example.
As for those who work to deny us our rights, they deserve all the ridicule that comes their way.
As for Chief Comey of the Jersey City, NJ PD (the chubby guy in the picture with Paul Helmke of the Brady Campaign) he is fair game since he leaves the door wide open for a gag or too. In his case, VERY wide open.
So how does the picture of Chief Comey with Paul Helmke work as a gag?
- Coming from a family with police and law enforcement folks, his lack of physical fitness is an embarassment on his shield. The prohibitionists always tell us to just rely on the police for our safety. His appearance pokes holes in that.
- Chief Wiggum is a cultural icon in America. Chief Comey plays on that image that everyone knows and chuckles about.
The co-opting of cultural icons is another point that we can make use of due to their flexibility. Think of them as delivery vehicles for our cause.
Here we are using a scary, recent, and very popular cultural icon to get our message across. It tells the viewer that a bad guy like the Joker really wouldn't take any silly laws seriously, let alone gun prohibition.
It's probably not as unpopular as it's made out to be, now that we're winning. And where does the 500,000 number come from?
As for Iraq, I dont want this thread to go off-topic, I believe the Lancet had a count of about a hundred thousand killed or so. Internal displacement and the refugee issue is much worse. A lot of the fighting died down since most of the Sunni on Shia and Shia on Sunni ethnic cleansing happened in 2006 and 2007.
But either way it makes sense to paint prohibitionist politicians as people who have no problem sending us to die yet they don't trust us to own a gun to protect our families. That is the meme we are going for.