He's motioning to the audience as if asking them, 'Should I do it?' And they're cheering him on.

It's like a forced strip show while the audience is cheering him on. Then he makes her bark like a dog. It's a form of sexual sadism, and this is on mainstream TV.

I was always cheering for them,

The whole thing is so predictable. This is a form of sexism that is so mainstream that people don't even blink their eyes when they learn the Duke lacrosse team hired a stripper. In a perfect world, that would not be sexist. But this is a world where one in four college women are sexually assaulted and women can't walk on campus at night because of the threat of violence from men.

Visually, they are ratcheting up what it takes to be menacing. Would young guys today be intimidated by Bogey with his little .38? I doubt it.

The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.