No Palin used crosshairs while working the gun imagery.
You just wrote that the gun part of it is largely irrelevant:
Originally Posted By: the G-man
So what you're saying is that targeting someone (metaphorically) in another party is okay as long as the reader thinks "crossbow," "missile" or anything but gun?
Originally Posted By: MEM
No that wouldn't be ok either.
You just wrote that targeting a political opponent with something other than a gun is also wrong.
Therefore, the fact that Palin used "gun imagery," by your own admission is no worse than the DNC using other forms of targeting imagery.