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Just Shoot Me (Bellisiles and guns. Again.)
Wall St. Journal ^
| Feb. 6, 2004
| KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Posted on 02/08/2004 7:20:42 AM PST by Pharmboy
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:51:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
[history]
History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; bang; banglist; bellesiles; fraud; guns; leftistmedia; michaelbellesiles
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To: Pharmboy
Assault Weapon, 1700-1850.
The blunderbuss could throw out a pound of lead balls or rusty nails. Dangerous alley sweepers did not come into being with the invention of self-loading weapons.
Especially when you consider the abysmal state of medical treatment of wounds, it's hard to imagine that lots of dangerous weapons weren't prevalent before the Civil War.
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posted on
02/09/2004 10:55:56 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Joe Brower
The Second Amendment...
America's
Original Homeland Security!
Stop the attacks on our God given Rights by the extreme wacko left-wing anti-gun nazis!
The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed!
An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen!
Guns Save Lives!
No Guns, No Rights!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For!
Molon Labe!
FMCDH!
~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~
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posted on
02/09/2004 11:50:17 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: Slings and Arrows
bttt
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posted on
02/09/2004 11:57:08 AM PST
by
Badray
(Make sure that the socialist in the White House has to fight a conservative Congress.)
To: Joe Brower; Pharmboy
Somebody call PETA. A dead horse is being beaten!
To: neverdem
And they say no good deed goes unpunished. Happy to be posting since 1998 (with apologies to Lazamataz).
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posted on
02/09/2004 4:04:04 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
To: Slings and Arrows
Am Yisroel Chai.
Awwmein.
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posted on
02/09/2004 4:05:53 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
To: Pharmboy
His wounded, flapping, quacking, splashing, lame-duck condition notwithsatanding, Bellesiles' discredited book is still available at my local leftist, socialist, Maoist, Stalinist, Communist, Demonrat, Lieberal, "Progressive" bookstore (Powell's Books, in Portland).
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posted on
02/22/2004 12:36:28 AM PST
by
fire_eye
(All leftists appear identical, when viewed through an ACOG...)
To: fire_eye
Nice job. We could prolly add: vegetarian and feminist.
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02/22/2004 4:10:32 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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