Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“I mentioned in a previous post that The Economist appears to lose all rationality when one specific topic is broached. The writer of the magazine’s April 20 newsletter ‘The World in Brief’ gave another illustration in the section ‘The Day Ahead’: he could not mention the 25th anniversary of the horrible Columbine school massacre without doing the rhetorical equivalent of a child hiding behind the couch to stop watching a horror movie — which is the horror of guns in the hands of peaceful citizens: ‘Gun-rights supporters often say, nonsensically, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ It is not the only way, but often the most efficient. This is why cops are armed (more and more apparently even in the UK) and why mass murderers never attack shooting ranges or gun club meetings. It is a simple matter of incentives.” (04/28/24)
https://www.econlib.org/the-economist-victim-of-an-irrational-fear/