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FPrice · August 21, 2002, 12:22 PM

Tamara mentioned Joyce Lee Malcom's excellent book, "To Keep And Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right". I understand that she has a new book out, "Guns and Violence: The English Experience", which continues to support the fact that America's tradition of personal ownership of firearms is the right course of action for a free people.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/2..._lobby%2B.shtml

The scholarship in favor the individual right versus the collective right is just so overwhelming that the only reason to start a "discussion" of this nature is to try to stir up the pot without coming to any reasonable conclusion.

August 21, 2002, 12:22 PM	#21
FPrice Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2000 Location: People's Commonwealth of Massachusetts Posts: 1,456	Tamara mentioned Joyce Lee Malcom's excellent book, "To Keep And Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right". I understand that she has a new book out, "Guns and Violence: The English Experience", which continues to support the fact that America's tradition of personal ownership of firearms is the right course of action for a free people. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/2..._lobby%2B.shtml The scholarship in favor the individual right versus the collective right is just so overwhelming that the only reason to start a "discussion" of this nature is to try to stir up the pot without coming to any reasonable conclusion. __________________ Frosty Price "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai