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Article: Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
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- June 1, 2003
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Gun History Disarmed
Thanks to Joyce Lee Malcolm for her well-written and well-presented piece on Michael Bellesiles' Arming America ("Disarming History," March). I've read a few other articles and criticisms of the issue, but Malcolm's was the most complete and understandable. It's amazing to me, a nonacademic, how easily some folks are deluded by a "scholarly" book because it supports their position. It appears that's what happened here, and Bellesiles should be ashamed of himself for attempting to delude the public.
W.B. Clark
Evansville, IN
As a Columbia grad, I have wondered why none of the articles that I have read on ...
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