re: #310 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

Hrm. Some of the criticism strikes me as false— for example, Washington really didn’t like the militias, so claiming that he found the three ill-equipped ones to be exceptions to the rule is problematic. There’s numerous citations of Washington criticizing the militia.

It definitely seems like he has scholarship problems, and so I won’t be relying on his data any more. However, stuff like “Counting guns in early America” seems to have just as many problems, since they are only talking about the evidence of gun-ownership among estates that were probated. In addition, they often conflate blades with guns, and when a study of farmers can conclude as many farmers owned guns as a plough and they don’t re-examine their methodology, it’s pretty freaking weird.