Print journalism used to be a pretty straightforward business. You had two lanes—news and opinion—and you picked one like a grown-up. Reporters wrote facts. Columnists wrote opinions. There was an understood wall between the two. That wall has since been bulldozed, paved over, and turned into a skate park for biased, anti-gun hacks who wouldn’t know journalistic integrity if it hit them with a rolled-up Constitution.
Now, we’ve got a third category slithering its way into America’s newspapers: the “anti-gun opinion piece pretending to be journalism.” This brand of reporting isn’t just dishonest—it’s willfully deceitful. These articles dress up like news, sneak past the editorial guard dogs (if there even are any left), and shove an anti-gun agenda down readers’ throats like it’s gospel. And the editors? They don’t lift a finger. Why? Because they’re usually in on it.
My dad spent 20 years in newsrooms, watching this trainwreck in slow motion. Every time I’d call out one of these anti-gun fairy tales disguised as reporting, I’d be met with silence—or worse, some smug lecture about how “reasonable gun control is common sense.” Meanwhile, the ink-stained wretches around me kept churning out garbage that wouldn’t pass a 10th-grade civics class.
Fast forward to now, and these same “journalists” are tripping over themselves to scream about how accurate and ethical their reporting is. “Trust the media!” they cry, in between tweets about ghost guns, pistol braces, and how the Second Amendment was clearly written by drunk farmers who couldn’t have imagined AR-15s.
Yeah, right.
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed, it’s this: the bigger the newspaper, the bigger the bias. Local papers, God bless ‘em, still try to get it right. But the big players—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the “national treasures”—they’ve decided their job isn’t to inform. It’s to preach. And brother, their sermons are pure anti-gun fire and brimstone.
Let’s take a recent gem from the New York Times—the sacred cow of liberal “news.” On Monday, they ran what might be the most anti-gun “news” story I’ve read in years. The author? Glenn Thrush. You may remember him as the guy who once claimed his most fulfilling assignment was writing obituaries. Which, uh, okay. Nothing says “uplifting journalism” like chronicling the recently deceased.
The headline alone was laughable: “Trump Administration to Roll Back Array of Gun Control Measures.” First of all, Trump’s not in office anymore, but hey—if blaming him gets clicks, who cares, right?
According to Thrush, the Biden administration had courageously imposed “strict gun control rules” to “stem the flood of unregulated semiautomatic handguns and rifles.” A flood of unregulated rifles? Someone better tell the ATF and every FFL in the country, because I’ve filled out more ATF Form 4473s than I can count, and I’ve never once seen a gun walk out unregulated.
Then there’s the real whopper. Thrush claimed that the gun dealers stripped of their Federal Firearms Licenses under Biden’s psychotic zero-tolerance policy were “repeatedly violating federal laws.”
Sure. If by “repeatedly violating” you mean minor clerical errors like forgetting to dot an “i” or writing “FL” instead of “Florida.” Biden’s ATF revoked hundreds of FFLs for exactly this kind of paperwork nonsense—blowing up lives over administrative typos. The revocation rate shot up 700 percent. But did Glenn Thrush mention that? Nope. Too busy clutching his pearls and polishing Biden’s boots.
And don’t even get me started on the ATF raids. Thrush somehow forgot to mention that in some of these cases, heavily armed federal agents showed up at gun dealers’ homes like they were busting down a drug cartel. Handcuffs. SWAT teams. At least one suspect never even got to answer the allegations—because he was killed in his home before a single question was asked.
But hey, let’s talk about “reasonable gun control,” right?
Thrush also took a swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi, who dared to suggest the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division should investigate whether the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is infringing on Californians’ Second Amendment rights. This, of course, is a bridge too far for Thrush, who claimed Bondi was “repurposing” a division meant to fight racial discrimination.
Repurposing? No, Glenn. Read the law. The Civil Rights Division investigates civil rights violations. The Second Amendment is a civil right. It’s literally in the name.
Then we get the parade of usual suspects. Thrush quotes the executive director of Giffords, who claims Trump gave his blessing to “reckless dealers willing to sell guns to traffickers and criminals.” That quote made it into the story unchallenged. No counterpoint. No facts. Just straight-up slander. I’ve met a lot of gun dealers over the years. Not one of them was willing to sell to someone with a criminal record. Not. One.
But why let reality get in the way of a good smear campaign?
Thrush ends the piece with a final load of nonsense, accusing the ATF of taking an “abrupt U-turn” from Biden’s noble crusade to stop the “flood” of semiautos that have “contributed to mass shootings and exacerbated the violent crime wave.”
Let’s clear this up. Violent crime surged after the pandemic because politicians like Biden let criminals out of jail, hamstrung police, and treated gang members like misunderstood youth counselors. Law-abiding gun owners didn’t cause that. But to guys like Thrush, we’re the villains—just for owning tools that scare people who’ve never stepped foot on a range.
So here we are. The line between news and opinion isn’t blurry anymore—it’s gone. Torched. Incinerated. And the anti-gun media’s walking on the ashes in tap shoes.
Real journalists are supposed to report truth, not feelings. But these days, if you say that out loud, you’re the crazy one. All I know is, the Second Amendment doesn’t care what Glenn Thrush thinks. And neither do I.
