I don't have a problem with gun ownership.  What I have a problem with is accepting power/violence to settle disagreements.  Guns tend to be a final solution, including those who may attempt suicide where use of gun greatly increasing the probability of success.   No trial, no treatment, no going back.    Guns in real life are not a video game, people stay dead, stay maimed, don't get to 'play again' and in most cases the reality of a shooting generally doesn't have a happy ending.    

This newspaper does have a liberal bias, which is one reason why you, me, and 4:20 all have a forum to promote our own opinion.     That's a very liberal stand on the rights of free speech.   While you hammer at media, remember that the first step in most authoritarian nations, (China, N. Korea, Saudi Arabia), is to enforce control of major media outlets.    There is nothing liberal about any of those nations.    The RG isn't perfect, but I embrace a free press.