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Book Review: A Well Regulated Militia, David T. Hardy
Book Review: A Well Regulated Militia, David T. Hardy
David Hardy
Professor Saul Cornell's book "A Well-Regulated Militia" The Founding Fathers and the Origin of Gun Control in America" is the latest contribution to the continuing debate over the status of the American right to arms. While Prof. Cornell's work uncovers some new aspects of the history of that right, it suffers from a strongly one-sided approach to that history, omitting or re-interpreting evidence suggesting that many Framers' views did not fit within the thesis of the work.