It is pretty pathetic. And total bullshit. Charlie Hebdo jokes about death in such a way to demonstrate that its staff has next to no respect for human life. Does one “celebrate life” by drawing cartoons making sport of innocent people’s death?

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

I’d stop short of saying the cartoonists deserved to be gunned down by Muslim fanatics, but I have infinitely more sympathy for the cops who lost their lives protecting the degenerates than for the targets themselves.

BTW, if one really wants to be brave as a cartoonist in the US, try drawing a cartoon ridiculing Martin Luther King Jr. I don’t even know whether there’s an equivalent off-limits religious figure in France. In the US, MLK is Jesus, Muhammed and all the Christian saints and Hebrew prophets put together. It’s our bona-fide state religion, and I’ve never heard a public figure ever speak of him in anything but the most reverent tones.