For this chapter I again relied on Allen’s April 19, 1989, Washington Post essay “The Mystique of Guns: From Daniel Boone to Dirty Harry,” as well as historian Richard Hofstadter’s “America as a Gun Culture,” American Heritage 21, no. 6 (1970), and “Reflections on Violence in the United States,” in Hofstadter and Michael Wallace, eds., American Violence: A Documentary History (New York: Knopf, 1970). The Billy Bathgate passage is, of course, from E. L. Doctorow’s 1989 novel Billy Bathgate (New York: Random House).