At 11:17 PM -0600 9/29/04, Clayton E. Cramer wrote:
> I recall reading many years ago an article by Garry Wills in which he
>characterized gun owners as "anti-citizens" (I think) because their
>willingness to use guns in self-defense meant that they put their own
>safety above the safety of the society. Can anyone point me to a copy of
>that article? I think it might have been in the New York Review of Books
>in the mid-1990s.
Two different articles. The "anti-citizen" phrase is quoted by Kates in
1991, so clearly it predates that. The New York Review of Books article
was called out by Eugene as a standard text he gives his students. I don't
have either article's text on file, but here are the cites I do have.
In his syndicated column, Garry Wills reviles "gun fetishists"
and "gun nuts" as "anti-citizens," "traitors, enemies of their
own patriae," people arming "against their own neighbors."
-- Don B. Kates, BIGOTRY, SYMBOLISM AND IDEOLOGY IN THE BATTLE
OVER GUN CONTROL
[The note says:] Quoted in Don B. Kates, _The _Value _of _Civilian _Handgun
_Possession _as _a _Deterrent _to _Crime _or _a _Defense _Against
_Crime,_ 18 Am. J. Crim. L. 113, 119 (1991).
In a 1995 article in The New York Review of Books, Garry Wills attacked
the new scholarship as a simple-minded mixture of "humbug with
history."
...New York Review of Books, Sept. 21, 1995, pp. 62-73
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