Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm of Bentley College deserves some sort of special prize for taking on the thankless task of talking sense on a subject where nonsense is deeply entrenched and fiercely dogmatic. In her recently published book, "Guns and Violence," she examines the history of firearms, gun-control laws and violent crime in England. What makes this more than an exercise in history is its relevance to current controversies over gun control in the United States.
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