You have to understand, Sir R., that once one purchases a firearm (this is my rifle, this is my gun. This one's for fighting, this one's for fun) they become a "gun toting, right-wing radical, looney-toon, snorting lost link on the chart of darwinism ... (add as many more as you like)".

Therefore, when our "knowing-what-is-best-for-you / do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do, because- I'm so much better than you" media reports a trend/fact/whatever, it must be reported in that particular fashion.

Doing otherwise, such as: Ten million Americans join the ranks of those owning firearms ...

Wouldn't that go somewhat against their case?

I mean, seriously, they are allowed to pack heat and/or employ armed bodyguards.

If you do, you fall into the group of the first sentence (loosely defined as such - sentence, that is)

That is why I urge the use of molotov cocktails and rusty barbed wire nooses.

Death to the Marxist pigs.