-Caveat Lector- >From TheEconomist http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/19990703/index_sf 8740.html <<Only part is given as the whole article is long and has some nifty multi-colour charts that add to the understanding of the assertions contained therein. A<>E<>R >> > 3rd July 1999 <Picture> SPECIALArms and the man W A S H I N G T O N , D C > > > > <Picture> <Picture: picture> > America’s love affair with the gun is the eternal stuff of > fiction. It has not always been the stuff of fact > <Picture> <Picture: More about> Gun control > > > > > <Picture: Resources> > Search > archive > > RICHARD HENRY LEE, one of the signers of America’s Declaration of > Independence, wrote that “to preserve liberty, it is essential > that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be > taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” This > association between guns and liberty seems hard-wired into the > American consciousness. It has produced a country with more guns > than people. It has made national heroes of the armed > frontiersman, the cowboy and Teddy Roosevelt, the president who > carried a big stick and a hunting rifle. Above all it has > engendered such a powerful cult of the gun that whether you > glorify it, fear it or accept it as a necessary evil, hardly > anyone questions its basis in fact. Have guns really been an > essential part of American life for 400 years? > -------Break --------- > > *Michael Bellesiles’s research is in the following works: “The > Origins of Gun Culture in the United States, 1760 to 1865”, The > Journal of American History. September 1966; “Gun Laws in Early > America”, Law and History Review. Fall 1998; “Lethal > Imagination”, New York University Press, 1999; and a book to be > published by Knopf in 2000. A<>E<>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." --Buddha + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -Bertrand Russell + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Everyone has the right...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Universal Declaration of Human Rights + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
