Bellesiles Misfires
An antigun "scholar" as today's Galileo? Oh please, just shoot me.
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Friday, February 6, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
History has its fair share of persecuted geniuses, men who were ahead of their time and made to pay for it. There's the hemlocked Socrates, the house-arrested Galileo, the exiled Rousseau. And to this list of giants it seems that we are now expected to add the name of Michael Bellesiles.
