New York Times Attack on Second Amendment Advocate Baseless

On Tuesday, the New York Times published a remarkably long piece about a man named William English, who, despite being “a little-known political economist at Georgetown University,” has supposedly become “The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle.” In their now-familiarly conspiratorial tone, the work’s authors, Mike McIntire and Jodi Kantor, reported that “one name keeps turning up in the legal briefs and judges’ rulings” within the gun-rights realm. That name is “William English, Ph.D.,” and it has now “been cited in a landmark Supreme Court case,” been referenced “in scores of lawsuits around the country,” and “figured prominently in a broad gun rights campaign that has transformed the law.”

Message: Reader, it’s his fault.

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Charles C. W. Cooke

Charles C. W. Cooke is a senior editor at National Review and the host of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast.

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On Tuesday, the New York Times published a remarkably long piece about a man named William English, who, despite being “a little-known political economist at Georgetown University,” has supposedly become “The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle.” In their now-familiarly conspiratorial tone, the work’s authors, Mike McIntire and Jodi Kantor, reported that “one name keeps turning up in the legal briefs and judges’ rulings” within the gun-rights realm. That name is “William English, Ph.D.,” and it has now “been cited in a landmark Supreme Court case,” been referenced “in scores of lawsuits around the country,” and “figured prominently in a broad gun rights campaign that has transformed the law.”

Message: Reader, it’s his fault.