One of the many personal costs that anyone promoting armed self defense has to bear is the frustration brought on by the media. They make no bones about how guns are bad, the people who own them are bad, those who say they need them for defense are thoughtlessly abetting the murder of innocents.
The US Court of Appeals recently ruled that the draconian handgun ban in Washington, DC was un-Constitutional. This is certainly a victory on many fronts. Not only does it mean that some day law abiding people in Washington may be able to keep the tools necessary for their defense, but it also states that the 2nd Amendment applies to all citizens instead of just a militia.
But as per usual, the anti-gun hysteria was quickly ramped up on the editorial pages of American newspapers. This op-ed at The Washington Post is pretty much par for the course. It is full of the usual distortions, half truths and outright deceptions that we can always expect from professional journalists.
I was heartened, however, to find this fisking of the op-ed at The American Spectator by David Hogberg. Instead of simply countering the arguments of the gun grabbers, Mr. Hogberg actually points out the methods used by the anti-gun crowd to cloud the issue and push their agenda.
It is worth the time.
(HT to Blognomicon.)