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On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:06:51 -0400, gigi weinrich
<gigi.weinrich@bks.gatech.edu> wrote:

>The Georgia Tech Bookstore and The Georgia Tech History Club,
>Prometheus, present Michael Bellesiles, Emory professor and author of
>the newly released, Arming America, on Friday, November 3rd, at 2:00pm
>in The Student Center Theatre.  Mr. Bellesiles will lecture at 2pm with
>a booksigning to follow.
>Bellesisles makes it clear that in Colonial America the average citizen
>had virtually no access to or training in the use of firearms.  How and
>when did Americans develop their obsession with guns?  The accepted
>answers are "mythology", says Bellesiles
>For further info, call 404 894-1642, or email
>gigi.weinrich@bks.gatech.edu

No doubt he does present it as 'mythology'.  See final tagline.

No doubt he will assuredly tell you that jim brady never had any
machine guns either.

You will seldom lose manifest human rights all at once.   You will
lose them by increments, and each new restriction will seem to be just
a small thing until there is nothing further to lose.

...and the wrong people will always have a gun.

"O brave new world that has such people in it"





--the mutability of history is a central tenet of socialism--