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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