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Argument: Individual right to bear arms championed throughout US history
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Supporting Evidence
- John R. Lott provides a review of Clayton E. Cramer's[1] Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie[2]
- Clayton E. Cramer. Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie.[3] This is Cramer's critique of Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture, from Michael A. Bellesiles.
- Clayton E. Cramer's Blog.[4]
- William C. Culberson. Vigilantism: Political History of Private Power in America. Culberson attempts to distinguish between domestic terrorism and the genuine right to bear arms for self-protection and to safeguard against tyranny.
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- Andrew Jackson - "A million armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered."[5]
