The New York Times Says Pro-Gun Folks "Hear Nothing"

But is anyone on the left listening, or even reading the data?

by Rod D. Martin
January 11, 2016

The editorial board of the New York Times says that "The Hear-Nothing Gun Crowd" is engaging in "a howling storm of misrepresentation" against what they seem to portray as truth, justice and the American way.

But I'm not so sure that it's the side the Times opposes that "hears nothing."

For example, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Congressional Research Service, the number of guns in America is up 50% over the past 25 years, and yet the number of gun crimes is down 50%. Now that's a pretty big problem for the entire gun control argument, since it is based upon the unproved assumption that more guns necessitate more crime: how can there be more guns in more hands and yet not only is there not more crime, there's actually dramatically less? We are actually at 100-year lows!

Crickets. I have yet to hear a liberal either acknowledge these facts or interact with them in any meaningful way.