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So, David Barton, in an article on his WallBuilders website, has finally responded to the question of where he got the story he told on Glenn Beck’s web-based TV show about a classroom full of gun-toting elementary school students saving their teacher from a gunman in the 1850s. As suspected, the story did come from …

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After a decade of debunking pseudo-historian David Barton’s claims about American history, it’s pretty hard for anything that comes out of his pie hole to surprise me, but even I was taken aback by the utter preposterousness of one of his latest claims — that gun accidents just didn’t happen in the founding era! Explaining …

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Thanks to an astute commenter on my post from last week, “A Debunking of Pseudo-Historian David Barton’s Book on the Second Amendment” (which I posted on Huffington Post as well as here on FTB), we may now know the source of one of the tales that Barton has been telling to promote the idea that …

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