Not defending the paper, but there is another way to look at. Having growing numbers of people who feel compelled to carry firearms to protect themselves is a damning statement about how people view the current administration and where it is taking this country.
So true!
Just having the article, whatever its attitude is a plus for safety. It gets the bad guys’ attention. A whole lot of articles deploring guns and CCW tells the bad guys that some of their intended victims are dangerous and they don’t know which ones so the whole mugging/rape/B&E project is dangerous.