Arming America - Blowing away the pro 2ed argument

I apologize if I am being redundant, but I just couldn't read all the prior posts.

I want to get this straight. The vast majority of firearms were military weapons, possibly acquired from dead soldiers. The author used "registration" records from a government that considered firearms to be confiscatable items. Would you register yours ?

I think the American Revolution was in fact fought by a small percentage of the total population. I think the percentage of white males that actually fought during the first year of the war would be a more interesting statistic. How many of us earned freedom for the rest? And are there enough of us today?
 
Everyone interested in this should read the Salon interview that Jffal posted. This guy claims to be a "gun nut" and spends entire interview bashing the NRA and demonstrating his ignorance of firearms. Is it any wonder there are so many holes in his historical arguments?

Examples:

"How many shots does an automatic like the Kalashnikov fire in a minute?

You can empty a 15-shot magazine in three seconds. The question is how quickly can you put on another magazine. "

15rd mags for the Kalishnikov? Let alone a cyclic rate of a whopping 300rpm..

"Similarly, you may know that there was this gun called a Street Sweeper. When it was specifically outlawed by Congress in 1994, the manufacturer simply changed a few little details and changed its name so it became the Tech DC (which everyone said stood for "District of Columbia")"

Here "gun nut" Bellesiles confuses the street sweeper shotgun with the TEC-9 (later changed to TEC-DC9 in a thumb your nose at DC gesture)

For a supposed expert, this guy is a few bricks short of a full load.
 
When my folks died, Dad's guns weren't mentioned in the will...neither were the 2 TVs, stereo, cement mixer, fancy espresso machine and a bunch of other stuff. Guess my brother and I don't really have the stuff, huh?

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
This is the same argument against private firearms ownership as used by another marxist historian, Gary Wills. He writes the same lies, but also says that he knows that most people before the evil "Colt murderer" did not own guns. He states his reason for knowing this because he checked the various homeowners insurance policies of the late 1700s and early 1800s, and almost no guns were listed on the poilicies. He also noted the wills left by people, too, as the above Marxist lied about.

HUH!!!!! Homeowners' Insurance Policies in the late 1700s and early 1800s????

Just more of the Big Lies vomited by the Marxists.

The Locomotives Continue Racing Toward Each Other. J.B.
 
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