The conclusion of this professor-historian (emeritus) is that our gun culture had its uses in establishing American civilization, as slavery did.
But we came to recognize (after a bloody civil war) that slavery was a gigantic mistake, and now I think it's time to realize that our gun culture was a similarly gigantic mistake, though of a different kind.
And we need to do what we can to minimize its horrible impacts and move on to a more positive development of a humane civilization.
Lettra Press Llc Guncrazy america: a history and critique of our gun culture, paperback/frank n. egerton
