Repeating lies
I think Kevin pretty much nails all the hubbub regarding Saul Cornell’s book A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. Says Kevin:
He doesn’t have to be right, he just has to be convincing. The ill-informed who read this piece think “Hey, he’s an authority, he must be right. That’s why his side has to keep repeating the big lies.”
Yeah, Bellesiles fraud go glowing reviews too. Clayton Cramer puts the last two in its dome.
Remember that the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute is funded by the anti-gun Joyce foundation.
September 26th, 2006 at 8:57 am
[…] Don’t tell Cornell. […]
September 27th, 2006 at 9:04 am
[…] I think perhaps because of this battle in PA, we’re seeing the increase in anti-gun shilling, such as Saul Cornell’s book getting press. The Geek reports that none of the anti-gun bills have passed: On the PA committee of the whole thing is that all gun control has been defeated, and that the planned multi thousand people demonstration against gun rights was sparsely attended. Well, “sparsely attended” being a generous description of “less than ten”. […]
September 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
He doesn’t have to be right, he just has to be convincing.
Hasn’t John Lott made a career out of that? *ducks*