Black-and-white two-panel editorial cartoon in the style of a 1962 film still, parodying the rifle scene in To Kill a Mockingbird. Panel one: Sen. Jon Ossoff, dressed as a 1930s small-town lawyer in a three-piece suit, pushes his round glasses up with one hand and aims a lever-action rifle along a level line across an empty dirt road, with townspeople watching from a distant porch. Panel two: a view down the rifle's sights through a circular scope with crosshairs, showing a large cartoon elephant, the symbol of the Republican Party, dead on its side in the road, riddled with bullet holes in a spreading pool of blood, with flies gathering and gun smoke drifting across the lens. Graphic content. Satire; no real animal or person is depicted as harmed. Drawn to the desk editor’s direction · render source not recorded
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