October 27, 2000

The Number of Guns in America

To the Editor:

Michael A. Bellesiles's essay "Exploding the Myth of an Armed America" (The Review, September 29) is much like his recent book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture: eloquent, thoughtful, terribly concerned about the very real problems of violence in modern America -- and wrong. When I first saw Professor Bellesiles explain these ideas, in his 1996 article in The Journal of American History, I was initially intrigued, then perplexed, because the

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