October 19, 2001

Questions About Data on Gun Ownership

To the Editor:

I am writing in response to the September 21 Hot Type, by Elizabeth Farrell. Since the serious errors that James Lindgren found in Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture are the focus of her piece, Ms. Farrell had a duty to permit Professor Lindgren the opportunity to explain these himself. Instead, readers have only Bellesiles's characterization of the problem, and his and Saul Cornell's contention that the fault is simply

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