Because guns are still used, where swords and so on aren't.
The past is more romanticized.
Weapons all require a great deal of skill to use, the only people who don't think so are the ones who haven't used them.
Notably, the author previously made the news for trying to have a bunch of middle eastern musicians arrested for being terrorists because they went to the bathroom too much during a flight.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp
So really, she never HAD any credibility to lose.
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