Word: gunness
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...commentator for ABC Sports. Swann has begun testing the political waters, launching an exploratory committee and making appearances at grass-roots gatherings. At 53, Swann doesn't have any electoral experience, and so far he's been mum on his agenda except to say he is antiabortion and pro--gun rights. He has enlisted members of the team that helped vault Tom Ridge from obscure Congressman to Governor in 1995. Some think Swann could have the same appeal as another charismatic political neophyte--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Swann is chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports...
...abortion debate is the first in a series of debates HPU has planned for this semester. Topics of discussion will include gun control, drug legalization, and social security. A debate between Palestinian and Israeli students is currently being planned for after spring break...
That chapter, “Arming America and Academic Fraud,” takes up the case of Michael Bellesiles, an Emory University professor who stepped down from his post after colleagues raised serious doubts about the validity of the research behind his award-winning 2000 book on gun ownership in antebellum America...
Bellesiles’ book argued that firearms were far less widespread in pre-Civil War America than Second Amendment activists have led us to believe. According to Wiener, Bellesiles was tarred and feathered because the gun lobby “succeeded at putting pressure on his university, his publisher, and the history profession...
Bellesiles inserted a controversial table into his book featuring the percentage of wills that listed firearms among an individual’s possessions from 1765 to 1859. But the table omitted the years 1774 and 1775. In both of those years, records show markedly higher rates of gun ownership. Colonial governments distributed firearms to militia members in the run-up to the anticipated conflict with Britain—a fact not mentioned in Bellesiles’ original work...