Then we are back to the fact that the Democrats previously used targets on the opposition in pretty much the same way that Palin did. The only difference, by your own argument, is that one used a target that made you think "gun" and the others used targets that implied (at least to you) other weapons.

So then you must agree that the Democrat party was also wrong (or, in the alternative, that both were engaged in harmless political metaphor), correct?