The WSJ's James Taranto on Twitter:
The New York Times finds a gun owner it can sympathize with. nytimes.com/2013/01/10/opi… [1]
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) January 10, 2013 [2]
It's convicted burglar and "armed career criminal" Matthew Robert Descamps of Pennsylvania: Editorial: When Burglary Is Not Burglary [3], January 9, 2013.
The New York Times has frequently editorialized in favor of disarming homeowners, and in Guns and Bitter, [4] April 16, 2008, they criticized Obama for apologizing to the non-burglarious citizens of Pennsylvania for his infamous [5]"cling to guns [6]or religion" comment.
In 2000, when the Wichita Horror [7] occurred—two black convicts forced their way into a Kansas home, killed four people and raped two of them, one of whom survived—the New York Times found it "Unfit to Print [8]."
Links:
[1] http://t.co/76Tlgx4c
[2] https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/289424368285646849
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/opinion/when-burglary-is-not-burglary.html?_r=0
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/opinion/16wed1.html
[5] http://www.vdare.com/articles/obamas-contempt-for-ordinary-whites-and-mccains-inability-to-defend-them
[6] http://web.archive.org/web/20080502144707/http://www.claytoncramer.com/weblog/2008_04_13_archive.html#7888667831977072040
[7] http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/carr_brothers/index.html
[8] http://www.vdare.com/articles/unfit-to-print