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| The Right to Keep and Bear Arms |
| Stopping Power; Why 70 Million Americans
Own Guns by J. Neil Schulman, Gary Kleck (Afterword), J. Neil Shulman 
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These are just a few of the surprises Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own Guns has in store for anyone whose opinions on guns and gun control are based on what they see on TV news or read in popular magazines. In this collection of forceful, dramatic, and often funny polemics (including four Los Angeles Times articles), award- winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, J. Neil Schulman, challenges the distortions and misinformation that pundits ranging from network anchors to ill-informed doctors are promoting about guns. Schulman marshals a wide range of moral, historical, and criminological arguments making the case not only that privately held firearms are the political empowerment of sovereign citizens in a democracy, but that high crime is the direct result of civilians abdicating their personal responsibility indefending themselves, their families, and their neighbors against criminals, instead hiring gunslingers called police to risk their lives defending them. He interviews the premier criminologist of firearms issues; compares the positive and negative effects of firearms in contemporary society; and discusses related issues such as violence on television, media distortion, criminal justice and capital punishment, and violence among teenagers. Especially for the reader who doesn't own a gun and has never even considered buying one, Stopping Power should be an eye-opener. |
| That
Every Man Be Armed : The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Halbrook, Stephen P. Halbrook 
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Reviewed by Jim Powell
Your right to bear arms is under increasing assault. The Supreme Court remains silent while states and municipalities butcher the 2nd Amendment. This book offers the most comprehensive philosophical and legal overview of the subject by a leading expert. Halbrook shows that your right to bear arms isn't some crackpot notion but the most fundamental right you have--to defend yourself. He explains how self defense was a fundamental right protected by English common law. Halbrook chronicles great libertarian thinkers of the 17th and 18th centuries, especially Algernon Sidney, John Locke, John Trenchard, Thomas Gordon, James Burgh, and Adam Smith--all of whom defended the right to bear arms. He discusses the "black codes" which denied blacks their right to self-defense. He explains the role of the Fourteenth Amendment in defending this right, and traces court decisions down to the present day. A must-read. That Every Man Be Armed traces the Second Amendment's origins from ancient Greece and Rome to eighteenth century France and England through the American Revolution, ratification of the Constitution and adoption of the Bill or Rights. Halbrook further traces the Amendment's significance throughout American history to current debates over gun controls, assembling a systematic interpretation of state and federal legal opinions and Supreme Court decisions. This comprehensive and lucid book reveals that the right to bear arms is an indispensable form of individual protection against both violent crime and government infringement of human liberties.
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| Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. Lapierre  List Price: Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 263 pages (September 1994) Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895264773 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.31 x 6.30 Other Editions: Paperback |
The Complete Idiot's Guide To Gun Rights A totally logical explanation of the Second Amendment backed up by the intent of our founding fathers as seen in the US Constitution and other writings. The most rabid anti-gun activist will come away deeply moved by the requirement for firearms in a free and safe society. Mr. LaPierre convincingly argues the case that firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens are indeed the path to reduced crime and ultimately the defense of our freedoms and our sovereignty. Chapter 4 on carrying concealed weapons (did you know the police have no obligation to protect you? Their obligation is solely to society.) and chapter 20 on media bias (LaPierre suggests that abuses of the First Amendment should be punished as severely as abuses of the Second Amendment) are particularly compelling. LaPierre's dissection of the so called "Assault Weapon Ban" gives one pause to seriously consider the real intentions of our law makers regarding the promoting of public safety and preserving individual freedoms. The only problem with this book is that the very people who need to read it, the anti-gun forces and our elected representatives, probably won't as LaPierre is too easily written off as a hack for the NRA. I assure you, this book is well written, logical and is well researched. If you have the slightest feeling our government is not adequately concerned with the rights of citizens, at least give Guns, Crime and Freedom a glance. |
| More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding
Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R., Jr. Lott 
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Amazon.com Review Multiple regression analyses are rarely the subject of heated public debate or 225-page books for laypeople. But John R. Lott, Jr.'s study in the January 1997 Journal of Legal Studies showing that concealed-carry weapons permits reduced the crime rate set off a firestorm. The updated study, together with illustrative anecdotes and a short description of the political and academic response to the study, as well as responses to the responses, makes up Lott's informative More Guns, Less Crime. In retrospect, it perhaps should not have been surprising that increasing the number of civilians with guns would reduce crime rates. The possibility of armed victims reduces the expected benefits and increases the expected costs of criminal activity. And, at the margin at least, people respond to changes in costs, even for crime, as Nobel-Prize winning economist [TAG]Gary Becker showed long ago. Allusions to the preferences of criminals for unarmed victims have seeped into popular culture; Ringo, a British thug in Pulp Fiction, noted off-handedly why he avoided certain targets: "Bars, liquor stores, gas stations, you get your head blown off stickin' up one of them." But Lott's actual quantification of this, in the largest and most comprehensive study of the effects of gun control to date, a study well-detailed in the book, provoked a number of attacks, ranging from the amateurish to the subtly misleading, desperate to discredit him. Lott takes the time to refute each argument; it's almost touching the way he footnotes each time he telephones an attacker who eventually hangs up on him without substantiating any of their claims. Lott loses a little focus when he leaves his firm quantitative base; as an economist, he should know that the low number of rejected background checks under the Brady Bill doesn't demonstrate anything by itself, because some people may have been deterred from even undergoing the background check in the first place, but he attacks the bill on this ground anyway. But the conclusions that are backed by evidence--that concealed-weapons permits reduce crime, and do so at a lower cost to society than increasing the number of police or prisons--are important ones that should be considered by policymakers. --Ted Frank |
| Guns : Who Should Have Them? by David B. Kopel (Editor) List Price: Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 475 pages (August 1995) Prometheus Books; ISBN: 0879759585 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.52 x 9.34 x 6.33 |
The author, Dave Kopel http://i2i.org , August 16, 1996 Here's what's in the book: Ch.1. Feminist scholar Mary Zeiss Stange looks at women & guns. Ch. 2. Dave Kopel on the Brady Act and waiting periods. Ch. 3. Law professors Robert Cottrol and Ray Diamond study the historical connection between race control and gun control. Ch. 4. Kopel on so-called "assault weapons." Ch. 5. Five medical scholars evaluate guns as a "public health" issue. Ch. 6. Kopel on children and guns. Ch. 7. Kopel suggests more crime control strategies that are more likely than "gun control" to be successful. In particular, reforming sentencing laws so as to reduce sentences for non-violent crimes, and increase sentences for violent ones; and reducing illegitimacy through a variety of strategies, including welfare reform. Everett Logan writes: Everyone in America should read this book!!! I can't stress it enough - this book may be one of the most important books for all voting Americans to read today. This slices right through the rhetoric that the news media employ to confuse Americans about gun control and stir up hysteria about guns. This book thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantles every major argument for gun control and reveals the dangerous flaws in all recent federal gun-control legislation. Whether you're a gun lover, gun hater, or something in between, you should read this book! |
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