Speaking Truth to Their Lies: Dissecting The Latest NY Times Rant Against Guns

By Bob Owens

The most infamous foreign-controlled newspaper in the United States, the New York Times, has produced yet another ignorance-filled rant again the natural right of human beings to bear arms for their defense.

Let’s get right into it.

As each new mass shooting leaves dead and wounded Americans strewn like casualties on a battlefield — a butcher’s toll that has now intersected with the international terrorist threat — the gun industry’s culpability amounts to war profiteering through the reckless sale of military weapons tailored for the civilian homefront.

The editors of the Times are, from a completely objective viewpoint, historically illiterate.

From before this nation’s founding, citizens have had firearms that were technologically superior to those of the military in terms of quality, range, rate of fire, lethality, and accuracy.

The “long rifles” of colonial times had more than twice the range of contemporary muskets. On the frontier, citizens had Spencer, Henry, and Winchester repeating rifles when the Army was still carrying single-shot Springfields. When Teddy Roosevelt took the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry—a privately raised militia given official sanction—to Cuba, he carried with him a pair of M1895 Colt-Browning machine guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition purchased on Madison Avenue by …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms