5 highly hypocritical cartoons about the Second Amendment

Artists take on Kyle Rittenhouse, the blame game, and more

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This is a two-panel political cartoon. The left panel depicts a masked DHS agent. He says, “Alex Pretti should not have been armed at a protest…” On the right panel, a young man with a long rifle and a backwards hat says “Yeah!” and the DHS agent responds, “Not now, Kyle Rittenhouse.”

(Image credit: Clay Jones / Copyright 2025 Claytoonz)

This is a four-panel cartoon with an elephant standing next to a window in each frame. The elephant says “Don’t blame the guns” in the first three frames as the scenes out the windows are Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and Uvalde. In the final frame a photo of Alex Pretti is next to the words “Protestor killed in Minneapolis” and the elephant yells, “It was the gun’s fault!”

(Image credit: Phil Hands / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon is titled, “The ‘Hey, Wait a Second’ Amendment.” Donald Trump stands in a giant pile of guns. A man in a MAGA hat stands nearby and looks confused. Trump says, “You shouldn’t bring guns…I meant only the government can have guns.”

(Image credit: Jack Ohman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

A man in a MAGA hat is carrying several guns and wears a T-shirt that reads "Don't tread on our 2nd Amendment" where a snake forms the "2". He's part of a group of protestors that includes a GOP politician with a sign that says, "Hands off only this right. The man says, "Trump should go back to trampling all our other rights."

(Image credit: Adam Zyglis / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

An elephant in a suit speaks directly to the reader and says, “Liberals shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns. We called dibs on the 2nd Amendment.”

(Image credit: Drew Sheneman / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

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