[ExSoldier]

I'll bet that nimrod Beisiles (sp?) did the survey. You remember the guy from one of those prestigious universities that got rave reviews for disproving the role of firearms in early America? Got all kinds of awards until it was proven he fudged LIED on all the "data." His rewards were withdrawn and he was fired from his cushy job in academia. Just goes to show that if you're going to lie about this topic, you can make good as long as you don't get caught and leave the antigun movement with egg on their face. Maybe he's trying to make a comeback. Bloomberg can afford him.

[sig226]

You mean Michael A. Bellesiles, author of Arming America, a book that claimed to show that American colonists did not actually own many firearms. Bellesiles concluded that since nobody in the early United States owned any guns, the second amemdment was not intended to protect the right of individuals to own something they did not have.

He got caught because he attributed data to San Francisco area archives that were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, as well as probate records that other historians knew not to exist. He still won't admit that he lied, even in he face of overwhelming evidence. He says his records were washed away in a flood. Funny, so were all of my guns.