The gun is a metaphor for, among other things, US backed coups. Sanctions against Cuba are another example.
This is an old meme format where the foreground character shoots the background character, then blames the flaws of the background character on something unrelated to being shot.
The image shows data from April.
In may Germany entered Recession: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/germany-enters-recession-2023-05-25/
While the G7/EU other countries may have mostly technically avoided recession, they have only done so barely so far.