8 Ways the Media Doesn’t Understand Gun Owners – This is a dire situation: I have three anti-gun media hit pieces left to read, and I’m down to my last antacid.  I normally ration them, but that last story was a real doozy.  Why endure such torture?  If you can grasp the mindset of someone who fears gun ownership—who doesn’t even trust himself with the right, let alone you—you’ll be better equipped to articulate your point of view.  The more we’re familiar with the other side’s argument, misguided as it may be, the better equipped we are to defeat it.  I’ve learned something through this approach: Big Media does not understand gun owners. Their anti-gun stories range widely in subtlety, and could be categorized as lazy, intentionally anti-gun or unknowingly biased.