It should be surprising that much of the mainstream media refuses to learn about guns and the Second Amendment, as this ignorance often makes them play the fool. But they do have reasons for maintaining this ignorance.
When activists masquerade as journalists to push a dishonest agenda, the public discourse becomes unfairly muddled. This is what the mainstream media so often does on issues related to guns.
If truth is still the basis of a sound defense, then a letter from state attorneys general should—if it gets deserved media attention—help to dispel President Biden’s anti-Second Amendment ambitions.
Gun-control groups find the research from John Lott so inconvenient to their ambitions that they’ve spent years doing all they can to disparage, delegitimize and cancel him.
Semi-automatic firearms have been popularly sold to private citizens since the late-19th century. They are the most-popular design sold today and have clear constitutional protections. So, no, the president doesn't get to tell us we can't own them.
The Colorado congresswoman initially rose to viral fame after challenging former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s gun-confiscation plans at a Colorado event during the latter’s failed presidential run.
The problem for them is this error is symbolic—indeed, emblematic—of their lack of understanding of guns and of the issues related to our Second Amendment rights.
The mainstream media tells us that armed citizens almost never stop bad guys with guns. The truth is much more interesting than they want the American people to understand.