The New Yorker Magazine Tells Us All About Guns.

As a charter member of Gun-control Nation, I try to go out of my way to absolve advocates, scholars, and pundits from any criticism when they say or write something about guns which is simply not true. But there comes a point when someone who should a) know better, and b) has a large audience says something which is so egregiously misinformed that I have no choice but to correct their mistakes.

In this case, I am referring to Jill Lepore, who seems to have become the resident gun expert for The New Yorker Magazine, even though this Professor of History at Harvard knows really nothing about guns at all.

Her latest indulgence in gun misinformation can be found in the March 18th print edition of the magazine where she explains her views on the recent decision by the Supreme Court which found the New York law on concealed carry to be a violation of 2nd-Amendment ‘rights.’

The decision, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, has been lauded by the pro-gun community as extending the whole notion of the 2nd Amendment beyond the confines of a gun owner’s home, and equally decried by the gun-control community as creating the basis for a greater degree of gun violence than we already have. Lepore, obviously, belongs to the latter group, because if she didn’t she certainly wouldn’t be writing about guns…