“You take guns away from our civilians, police officers won’t need to have guns,” rapper 21 Savage opines. I don’t have to tell TTAG’s Armed Intelligentsia that Mr. Joseph’s “answer” to officer-involved shootings is about as well thought-out as Mr. Obama’s answer to rising health care costs.
Despite Mr. Joesph’s personal experience with firearms — the Atlanta native claims he was kicked out of sixth grade for gun possession — he’s hardly alone in his inability to think rationally about policing or “gun violence.” I spend a good part of my day fisking the inane, ill-informed anti-gun animus generated by college-educated writers in the mainstream media.
