Exploding the Myth of an Armed America

By MICHAEL A. BELLESILES

On April 6, 1998, the nation's two leading newsmagazines featured cover photographs of a young boy with a gun. The photograph on the cover of Time magazine was of a toddler named Andrew Golden, dressed in camouflage and clutching a high-powered rifle. Newsweek featured a slightly older Andrew Golden, still in camouflage, now clutching a pistol. The two magazines...

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