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In reply to the discussion: Replacing white people to kill gun rights [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)61. did they base their opinions on
        scholarship or personal opinions like Stevens?  Have they researched the specific issue and wrote papers that haven't been debunked like Bogus and Bellesiles or simply add their names to simply for the appeal to authority?  Remember I said seriously studied the issue, my qualification is neither blanket and still stands.
Are they also saying Lawrence Tribe and Sanford Levinson are NRA shills too?
Actually, governments historically restricted guns because they believed in that only the State should have a monopoly of violence and to avoid political violence, usually directed at them.  That was certainly the case in Europe during the red scare and the terrorism in the 1970s.  They got that wrong, so I doubt they actually studied the issue.
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