Geoff Metcalf: Right Is Not Might

Geoff Metcalf: Right Is Not Might – in Congress or Academia
The Washington Times ran an article on Friday about Michael Bellesiles -
“Emory Continues Probe of ‘Arming America’ Author”
(http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020823-23126206.htm ). Duh!?!? This has
been going on for over two flipping years! Notwithstanding his
once-upon-a-time reputation as a “respected scholar,” Emory University
historian Michael Bellesiles’ thesis of early American gun ownership was,
is, and will always be fiction. … “Arming America” was embraced and lauded
by academia and media because it offered “presumed facts” from a “reputable”
scholar that supported a politically correct preferred reality ? that had NO
basis in reality. I have too often noted that “some people don’t like facts
that contradict their preconceived opinions.” The corollary of that is also
true: “People LIKE facts that support their preconceived opinions.” Emory
and the tenured masses of academia have some serious fence mending to do.
They should start with breaking Bellesiles’ sword, ripping the buttons off
his blouse, and marching him out of their ivy-covered palace in shame. In
1676 Geoff Metcalf’s direct ancester Michael Metcalf returned to his home in
Dedham, Mass., to discover Indians had burned his home to the ground.
Michael collected an armed militia from his neighbors and marched south to
fight in the ‘King Philips War’ in Rhode Island. ALL those militia neighbors
had and used guns.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/25/140626.shtml