I read it, just to see if you were right. You were right.
But I’m not sorry I read it. I’m studying the propaganda intentionally these days. Just to see how they’re approaching it.
Main thing with this article I noticed is what they don’t talk about. They never speak of it as a right, grounded in the Constitution, and bigger than just personal self-defense. Instead, they implicitly put the burden on gun owners to use crime statistics to justify the risk of owning a gun. Which of course is bass-ackwards.
The other thing I noticed is, with all the crime statistics they throw around, no one seems even a little curious about deterrence effect, i.e., could the big drop in violent crime actually be correlated, not to actual use of a firearm in self-defense, but the change of behavior among criminals where conceal carry and other good gun laws are in place, just knowing people can defend themselves. Instead, they seem fixated on how, because violent crime is dropping, doesn’t that mean people who want guns for safety are just being paranoid? Positively Orwellian.
Crime goes up? We need to take the guns away!
Crime goes down? No one needs guns!
The real problem is the number of folks who accept this shallow logic because they are incapable of critical thinking (or are too lazy to do it).