Arming America Revisited
August, 2002
In January 2001 The Playboy Forum interviewed Michael Bellesiles, author of Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. We recognized a classic agent provocateur, a historian who had the nerve to challenge a cherished myth, to ask novel questions and to assemble a wealth of supportive evidence.The cherished myth? That America was the home of the gun-toting pioneer, the minuteman with a musket in one hand and the other on a plow.Bellesiles claimed that he had gone looking for evidence...
