With each generation since FDR, fewer and fewer people are Firearms Literate as far as common sense, function, owning and operating at least one design, and, being comfortable with Firearms and their uses.
Some of what is so sad about this Article, is that both editors, reporters, and, their subscribing demographic, are increasingly in this boat - all they 'know' are the second hand emotion and dis-info, brought to them by others they look up to or over to, who know nothing else either...and you can bet this is what they will insist on for their children, too.