Everything I Know, I Learned from Reading New York Times Articles All the Way to the End
12th August 2022
Steve looks at the same NYT article I mentioned yesterday (‘Everybody Is Armed’: As Shootings Soar, Philadelphia Is Awash in Guns’).
Of course, it’s the 12th paragraph and metrics from the marketing department show that most NYT subscribers have long stopped reading by this point, at which the reporter can start to edge in to explaining what’s really going on.
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The whole point of gun control is to persecute rednecks buying rifles legally, not to discourage black criminals from carrying handguns illegally and shooting other blacks who peeve them.