Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:32:40
Prize rescinded for ‘Arming America’ book
I’m a few days late, this seems to have come out on the 13th, but I’ve been REALLY sick the past week, and blogging has suffered. However, I’m not so sick as to let this slide by:
On Friday, the university announced that its trustees had voted to rescind the prestigious Bancroft Prize given in April 2001 to former Emory University history Professor Michael Bellesiles for his book “Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture.”
Ha. Ha.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Oh, but there’s more:
Columbia’s provost, Jonathan Cole, told National Review his school’s decision came at the end of a careful process that began in the fall of 2001. But before the Bancroft Prize was awarded the previous April, scholars already had shown that Bellesiles’s main probate data—through which he tried to show that few guns were inherited as parts of estates—were mathematically impossible. Further, he cited records that were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
That would be due to the fact that he’s a liar.
Posted by JimK at 10:32 AM on December 19, 2002
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#1 Posted by Deb
on 12/20 at 02:47 AM -
Hey Jim, good post. Don’t own a gun myself, but damn glad I’d be allowed to if I wanted to. I had a dream the other night that some terrorists broke into a building where I was, and I found a gun to defend myself, but I didn’t know how to load it or fire it, and I woke up in a cold sweat. The good news was, of course that this is not the EU, or Iraq for that matter, and I have the freedom to correct this problem so that--if needed--I can be on equal footing with the bad guys.\r
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To all those people who insist the founders didn’t consider assault weapons, I say hogwash! All the founders considered was this question: “Does the government have guns? OK then, the populace should be able to have them too.” I like to think they’d also consider this if they could have imagined the ease with which criminals and terrorists could get guns: “Do the criminals care about gun laws? No? OK then, law-abiding citizens should be able to get guns."\r
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Enjoy your Christmas, hope you are feeling better.\r
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