Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History
Historical Blindness
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The Politics of the American Revolution
How did gun ownership come be viewed as a human right here and nowhere else? It all boils down to the politics of the american revolution. In colonial America, english whiggery was a popular political force. The radical whigs distaste for militarism contributed to revolutionary sentiment in amer a. According to this political position, standing armies represented the greatest threat and evil to man's liberties. And after the revolution, our founding fathers endorsed gun laws that would probablych even the most dyed in wool gun wright's advocates.
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