JohnPodhoretz wrote in the New York Post that 35 million American households have guns, but as evidenced by how few of those homes are murderous ones, gun ownership in no way correlates with gun violence.
As Roger Cohen and JohnPodhoretz have written, this allowed them to offer their writers a variety of perks that are hard to come by today, including a generous salary and a light schedule that allowed them to put a lot of time and effort into each story.