If I understand TFA then the defendant is arguing that his message about owning a gun was made less glib by the verbatim inclusion of a tears-of-joy emoji plus

If I understand TFA then the defendant is arguing that his message about owning a gun was made less glib by the verbatim inclusion of a tears-of-joy emoji plus a smiling-devil-horns emoji at the end. That is... an unusual argument to make.