On September 18 , 2013 , in reference to the Washington Navy Yard shooting , Rep. Steve Cohen ( D-Tenn . ) tweeted one of Day 's anti-NRA cartoons , which featured a gun with the words " NRA " along with the U.S. Capital and Washington Monument attached to it . The cartoon and tweets drew an angry response from the right , including Fox News host Bill O'Reilly , who called the tweets " despicable " and said Cohen was trying to " exploit the mass murder for political reasons . " " Bill Day is one of the great cartoonists , and is one of my friends and constituents . He ’s been doing a series on gun violence and how it ’s affected America , " Cohen said on MSNBC . " I wanted to get Bill Day ’s cartoon out there in the marketplace of ideas , and I think there definitely is a connection between the NRA and the continuing gun culture that we have . " Day has been criticized for his tendency to reuse his previously drawn comics with only slight alterations to make them topical , but his fans consider it a tempest in a teapot . Day was also accused of plagiarism in January 2013 when he used a computer generated image of a gun taken from the website deviantArt in one of his comics without crediting or getting the permission of the original creator . Cagle said that Day was not aware of the origins of the image and mistakenly believed it to be a photograph . Day said he pulled the cartoon when the mistake he made was realized , replaced it , and it had never been published . He also said that the Poynter Institute , which investigates journalism ethics , dismissed the accusations after looking into the incident . Cagle apologized to the original artist on Day 's behalf
Washington Navy Yard shooting
Washington Navy Yard shooting
Bill Day (cartoonist)