Kates had many articles quoting Wills in this way. Some links to these articles and another author with similar quotes are: http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?ID=59 http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Firearms/Essays/Don%20Kates/Is%20Self% 20Defense%20a%20Right http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kates.speech.html http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_bigotry.html http://www.guncite.com/journals/krealsym.html
http://www.lawandliberty.org/kates_de.htm http://www.yale.edu/yfp/archives/99_11_equalizers.html http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/54bigsym.pdf http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/disarm1.4.html http://truedemocracy.net/td-12/3.html http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Kates/self-protection.html http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/115kat.pdf http://www.rkba.org/research/kates/crime-deterrent Phil > 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 > > -- > Escape the Rat Race for Peace, Quiet, and Miles of Desert Beauty > Take a Sanity Break at The Bunkhouse at Liberty Haven Ranch > http://libertyhavenranch.com > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. > > -- The Art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. -- Ulysses S. Grant _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
