How guns are portrayed in the media is exactly what FReepers should know better about.
I read the article as if Imus was so outraged that he armed himself to face the Doctor. (I was very willing to suspect the worst of Imus that I may have read more than was actually there.) Guns are no problem for me. Rather like them as a matter of fact. Of course that is assuming that they are in the hands of stable, rational human beings all of which Imus is not.