WaPo Offers Insulting Story of Gun Owners “Out West”

In a news story that has the tinges of an editorial The Washington Post takes straight aim at what it calls “the gun culture of the American West.” Of course, as the paper often fails to mask its anti-gun bias, should we be the least bit surprised by its harsh take on the issue of gun rights?

For example the paper offers commentary from D.C. council member Phil Mendelson (D-At Large) who challenges the McCain-Tester bill, regarding more uniform gun laws nationwide. Instead of seeing how this issue would affect law-abiding gun owners, Mendelson and the Post instead look at the worst aspects of gun culture:

“The law shows a disregard for the realities of the District, where guns mean drive-bys, holdups and intimidation more than sport, tradition and the American way.”

But these realities exist already, so how would this change if law-abiding citizens had the right to own and carry a firearm? We think it would change, and not in a bad way. The criminals already clearly ignore the law, and those situations of drive-bys, holdups and intimidation might go away if law-abiding citizens didn’t have to live in fear from armed thugs.