Emory University has accepted the resignation of history professor Michael Bellesiles, the author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The book stirred up controversy because it appeared to confirm what many scholars already believed: that the Second Amendment protects only a collective right to bear arms and that individual gun rights were unimportant to America`s Founders. The facts, however, were not there to back up Bellesiles`s contention. For more information see: Loaded Words by Michael Korda
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