For those of us who follow Second Amendment issues closely, the fact that The New York Times, of all news outlets, on Monday published a mostly positive front-page article about the changing face of who is “leaping into gun ownership” and why came as a bit of a surprise.
Moreover, the article admitted — even if inadvertently —the old truism that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Although in The Times’ case, the “bad guy” is President Donald Trump. I know, try to control your shock and amazement.
First, The Times chose a Harvard study conducted between 2019 and 2021 as its primary source.
These were the pandemic years when both Presidents Trump and Joe Biden served in office. So contrary to The Times in effect blaming Trump for the “new” development in gun ownership, demographic groups weren’t choosing to purchase firearms because of…
