I am a student of history and, I like to think, a little bit of a historian myself, and I had never heard of Richard Maxwell Brown until this thread. He is apparently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oregon.

Like Uncle Dave O (although with a few fewer years), I have never seen or been involved in an incident of violence in my life. Additionally, in three generations of my family, grandfater, father and me, there are 65 years of military service, and none of us ever owned a firearm.

Yes, there are probably hundreds of instances of violent crime in the United States every day...and the population of the US is nearly 291,000,000 and it covers over 3,500,000 square miles.