HnL
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I wasn't aware it was rejected as bad scholarship.Hmmm.Spiking the Gun MythThat is simply false. When the amendment was written, less than one in six men had a gun, and of those, half were unusable.
But you wouldn't know this based on the fairy tales gun worshippers tell each other.
Links?
You mean this book?
Arming America - Wikipedia
This says it all:
[Although the book was initially awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize, it later became the first work for which the prize was rescinded following a decision of Columbia University's Board of Trustees that Bellesiles had "violated basic norms of scholarship and the high standards expected of Bancroft Prize winners."[1]/QUOTE]
Got any other sources that say something differently?
Your source was debunked a decade ago by people who desperately wanted to agree with the findings, but actually still had some academic integrity.
Hmmm, crappy source quoting, methinks you are a JoeBlow sock.
But that isn't the same as debunked. My intuition tells me he was about right. But you are free to provide citations that state otherwise.