The New York Times Doesn’t Know Anything About Gun Violence.

So, now we have the 2nd installment from The New York Times, telling us what we need to know about the gun problem. In this case an article which says that gun deaths recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death of American children.

According to the authors of this piece, back in 2000, more than 30% of all childhood deaths were due to car accidents whereas less than 10% of childhood deaths were due to shootings. In 2020, for the first time the percentage of children killed by guns (19%) surpassed the percentage (18%) of kid’s deaths from cars.

I happen to think that comparing deaths from car accidents to deaths from guns is to make an argument which doesn’t have the slightest relationship to reality at all. Why do I say this? Because with a few, very rare exceptions, people who get killed in car accidents didn’t get into the car intending to commit any kind of injury to themselves or anyone else. But people who walk around with a Glock or some other gun have every intention of using that gun to injure themselves or someone else.

Now these gun-toting folks can tell themselves and everyone else that they are only carrying a gun for self-defense. But the World Health Organization doesn’t differentiate between violence which is ‘good’ and violence which is ‘bad.’ If someone…