[Celerity]

Whoa! Was this really written by the New York Times ?!

[Signalman]

It was published by the NYT. Written by John Lott,who is pro-2nd amendment.

[upchuck]

Was this really written by the New York Times ?!

The NYT didn't write this. The NYT published it. The article was written by John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author, most recently, of “The War on Guns.”

[Gene Eric]

An opinion piece NYT can parade as a distraction from its perennial Leftism.