Wednesday, January 12, 2011

About That Civil War: (Sic) Getting The Story Right Does Matter++

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace
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William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson  (1838?–1864)

About that Civil War: Getting the story right does matter

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