The paper’s editorial stance has consistently favored regulation over an unfettered individual right to private ownership and carry. … This is a news feature, not an editorial, and it does not signal any shift in The New York Times’ longstanding institutional position favoring stricter gun regulation over unrestricted private ownership and carry. … In short, positive or neutral news coverage of one incident in which a trained, armed civilian intervened is consistent with standard reporting practice and does not indicate a change in the paper’s overall stance on private gun ownership.