I'm not saying that it should be exempt, I'm saying that it is super dangerous territory that you really shouldn't go wandering in to unless you know that you aren't going too far. You are also offending a larger group of people on a more personal level. I'm super bad at analogies, but lets say you are taunting dogs. You have that one instance where there is a relatively calm dog, you taunt it, and it might bark. No big deal. You taunt an aggressive dog, and it might chase after you and bite. It won't be the end of the world. Then, you decide to taunt a pack of 400 dogs, 375 of them just bark at you, but 25 of them happen to have rabbies, chase you down, and debilitate you. It is just the fact that you don't necessarily know who you will be offending with the satire. And I don't really know how "satirical" this cartoon was, but good satire should make people question their opinions and maybe get a little miffed, not come to murder you. Murder sounds more like you really did something inappropriate. I really like what Rocc0 said earlier about handing out those fliers. It might not be illegal in the sense, but when you are dealing with an extremely sensitive group of people, its better to play it safe then murdered with automatic weapons and rocket launchers.