Archive for Clayton E. Cramer
Banning Handguns Would Save Lives?
A Los Angeles Times opinion piece by Jennifer Price last February, “Gun Lobby’s Perfect Aim,” asks: why not ban handguns? She was writing in anger and sorrow over the murder of her brother David and his wife, by the wife’s mother. Emotion is a poor basis for public policy, and the essay demonstrates a poor [...]
1Jun2003 | Clayton E. Cramer | 8 comments | ContinuedMichael Bellesiles and Guns in the Early Republic
Professor Michael A. Bellesiles’s Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture makes the claim that hunting with guns was rare in America before the 1830s.1 According to Bellesiles, few Americans hunted, few Americans wanted guns, and few Americans owned guns in the early Republic (the period from the American Revolution to 1846). What [...]
1Sep2002 | Clayton E. Cramer | 1 comment | ContinuedConfiscating Guns from Americas Past
Clayton Cramer is the author of Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic: Dueling, Southern Violence, and Moral Reform (Praeger Press, 1999). By now you have probably heard about the new book by Michael A. Bellesiles, professor of history at Emory University. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture1 is receiving all sorts [...]
1Jan2001 | Clayton E. Cramer | 3 comments | Continued-
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