Given the recent tragic shootings, historians should play a role in providing dispassionate facts about the history of gun rights and gun control. [More]Agreed. Except after leafing through some of the resulting articles, it's pretty obvious they agree more with Burger than with Scalia, embrace all kinds of infringements and advance more than one strawman doing it. That said, there is some stuff they got right that I'll be able to use later, so I'm going to hold onto this as a reference resource, albeit not one I consider to be other than marginally useful for the sources it cites.
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Sorry, David, I couldn't get past this:
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The moron is either a true moron or a liar as the Bill of Rights was written by James Madison in 1789. IDIOT!
Historians like Michael Bellesiles? No thanks. Help from that kind of historian we don't need.
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